Simple Songs (Jim O'Rourke album)

Simple Songs is the third singer-songwriter album by American musician Jim O'Rourke. It was released on May 19, 2015, on Drag City and is the final album by O'Rourke for the record label. The album was released nearly fourteen years after O'Rourke's previous singer-songwriter album Insignificance (2001).

Critical reception
At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 86 based on 14 professional reviews, which indicates "universal acclaim".

Personnel
The following people contributed to Simple Songs:
 * Main personnel
 * Jim O'Rourke – vocals, guitar
 * Sudoh Toshiaki – bass
 * Tatsuhisa Yamamoto – drums
 * Akiko Yoshino – french horn (4, 6, 7, 8)
 * Ren Takada – pedal steel guitar (5)
 * Eiko Ishibashi – piano, organ
 * Jun Moriyama – saxophone (3)
 * Nahoko Kamei – saxophone (3, 7)
 * Atsuko Hatano – strings
 * Daysuke Takaoka – tuba (2, 3, 6, 8)
 * Additional personnel
 * John Golden – mastering
 * Kuniyoshi Taikou – photography