re: Why doesn't Paul Simon get more love?

I'm aware of how Sounds of Silence became a hit, and S&G had broken up after Wednesday Morning 3 AM failed to find an audience (and give some love not just to the forgotten producer, but the college DJ who heard the original song and gave it a second life on college radio, which would inspire the re-recording of the song as a Like a Rolling Stone folk-rock ripoff).

And everyone, even Simon, admits the Sounds of Silence album is a total rush job to capitalize off of a big hit. Most of it classic folk in the sense he was just repurposing old English folk songs and poems (Richard Crory, Leaves That are Green, April Come She Will).

But I think you're right that he's more of an english composition major. He's not working class. He's not of the people. Paul Simon is middle class, and he sings for the middle class. If the music thing didn't work out, he was going to law school. He's got no street cred. He rewrites old English poems and writes a song about the word frick without having the balls to say it. I think Simon's a gifted songwriter, but he is almost terminally uncool.

Let's assess the Paul Simon track rap sheet shall we?

16 Grammy Awards(3 for Album of the Year)
Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award
First Recipient of the Gershwin Prize for Popular Song
Two-time inductee into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
Wrote 3 no. 1 pop singles for Simon and Garfunkel(to this day, Bob has ZERO)
1 solo no. 1 pop single
13 Top 40 solo pop hits
7 Top Ten solo pop albums
Rolling Stone Top 100 Guitarists
Rolling Stone Top 100 Songwriters

Not sure who's persuading you that Rhymin' Simon doesn't receive more love considering he's achieved much critical acclaim and commercial success and, in some ways, exceeded Dylan.