simpleness

Factoring in the melody, he said: "There's a simplicity to it, or maybe a simpleness to it, that is also part of the allure of that song. "

I fell in love with its complexity and its simpleness.

But it's this simpleness that translates to brutal honesty, like on the lead track, "I'm Drunk, Dead Broke," in which he sings about boozing and gambling.

The situation was reversed and the smart and superior sniggering of the cultivated spectators well deserved the Duke's rebuke: For never anything can be amissWhen simpleness and duty tender it.

"A stool boiled down to a minimum", is how the man behind Another Country, Paul de Zwart, puts it, as if the chisel has scraped away the layers to release an essential simpleness lurking within.