Graceland
Studio album by Paul SimonWikipedia
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Sep 13, 2026
JeffHOST
Or can you? Is Walt still alive? That's what I want to know.
MickHOST
Is he occupying a room at Graceland's? Well, who knows? Who knows indeed.
JeffHOST
Who knows? I mean, he was pretty big on freezing himself and all that sort of stuff back in the day.
JeffHOST
Yeah, yeah.
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JeffHOST
I mean, it's great.
JeffHOST
It really is good.
JeffHOST
And one that I'm sure you don't particularly like, but it was one of the biggest albums in 1986, Paul Simon, Graceland.
MickHOST
It's not that I don't like it.
Niko StratisHOST
And she was like, what are you talking about? And I was like, well, Justin Towns Earl, his son who died.
Niko StratisHOST
and had this beautiful voice it was an incredible songwriter and she was like I didn't know he had a kid so I had this really fun moment of of pimping your mom to Justin yeah and I was like I sent her well I sent her a cover he had done of Paul Simon's Graceland and I was like because she loves Paul Simon and I was like this is this is Justin Townsend and then so now she's just like texting me like my mom doesn't really understand how streaming works all that well so she's like trying in her own clunky way to make alpha music work but she's like I really like this Justin guy and I was like Oh, I think you've forgotten that I told you how that ends.
Niko StratisHOST
Which, in not a great way, unfortunately.
Niko StratisHOST
R.I.P. Justin Townsend.
Lelia BroussardGUEST
Okay, well, listen, I have two answers and one is going to be cool and one is going to be not very cool.
Lelia BroussardGUEST
So the first one, like technically, but it was not my choice, but I love it, was Paul Simon on the Graceland
Rob LaneHOST
tour.
Rob LaneHOST
Going for all the credibility right there.
Roger TaylorGUEST
Yeah.
Roger TaylorGUEST
The, the Graceland sort of-
Chris EvansHOST
Yeah
Roger TaylorGUEST
... yeah, yeah.
Matt LiebPANELIST
Like, any o- especially not a virtuoso songwriter.
Matt LiebPANELIST
Like, you don't see, you know, Paul Simon-branded fucking merch where it's like, "Come to my truck stop," and, you know, the Graceland.
Matt LiebPANELIST
[laughs]
Jordan MorrisHOST
Yeah.
Blair MorganHOST
And you think about it, absorbing some of these world influences.
Blair MorganHOST
That was a few years before Paul Simon did Graceland, but Paul Simon was Already doing stuff, dabbling, that kind of stuff like I'm thinking Mother and Child Reunion or El Condor Paso or absolutely.
Blair MorganHOST
And back to Bruce, he was very prolific around this time.
Blair MorganHOST
He followed that album up a year later with In the City Front.
Mindy PetersonHOST
artist activist.
Anna Harwell CelenzaGUEST
The other one is Graceland.
Anna Harwell CelenzaGUEST
And I think it's because I absolutely love the album.
Anna Harwell CelenzaGUEST
Paul Simon wrote it in the mid-1980s.
BrianAUDIENCE
That's Paul Simon.
BrianAUDIENCE
Graceland is the album.
Joey EliasHOST
Yeah.
BrianAUDIENCE
Yeah, and I think, what's that song, You Can Call Me Al? That's right.
Bradley MorganHOST
Ashley is a Grammy Award-winning music historian, producer, as well as the author of several books, including Kind of Blue, The Making of the Miles Davis Masterpiece, and The House That Train Built, The Story of Impulse Records.
Bradley MorganHOST
Their latest book is Days of Miracle and Wonder, Paul Simon and the Trials and Triumph of Graceland.
Bradley MorganHOST
It is published by Atria Books.
Bradley MorganHOST
Ashley, thanks for joining me today.
Ashley KahnGUEST
Sure.
Ashley KahnGUEST
The book, the elevator pitch, if you will, of the book is pretty much, you know, a focus on Paul Simon's magnum opus, what he calls his career best.
Ashley KahnGUEST
Graceland, a recording that was very important to the year 1986.
Ashley KahnGUEST
And it serves as an incredible window on the culture and the politics of that time.
John BessantHOST
It's this intersection and it's an approach which has served other artists equally well.
John BessantHOST
Paul Simon's reinvention of his style to embrace African rhythms and melodies in the album Graceland owes a great deal to his deliberate recruitment of local musicians, in particular Ladysmith Black Ambaso.
John BessantHOST
Much of the power of that diversity has its roots in the idea of the jam session.
John BessantHOST
It's an informal, often after hours, coming together of players who don't normally play together, but who exchange ideas and tricks.
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