Paul Simon - Graceland

Album "Graceland" is considered one of the highlights of Paul Simon's (age 70) career. In the middle of South Africa Boycott, he went to Johannesburg to record it, but despite all this was the record became a critically acclaimed success. Yesterday he visited the Globe and played the album in almost its entirety.

The concert is a journey through Paul Simon's rich career, which in turn drawn influences from many countries and genres. He had also the vocal group Ladysmith Black Mambazo beside him, who attended at the Graceland section, and also performed the few songs with Paul Simon and the other musicians. South African trumpet player Hugh Masekela makes a guest appears on the tour, he plays on among other things the excellent "Mandela (bring him back home)". He is still a genius as a songwriter. He is worth seeing on stage.

Here are a few pictures that i took last night.

Todays tune "Graceland" is the title song of the album Graceland, released in 1986 by Paul Simon. The song features vocals by The Everly Brothers.

The lyrics deal with the singer's thoughts during a road trip to Graceland after the failure of his marriage to actress and author Carrie Fisher.

It was the lowest-charting song on any of the world music charts that has won the Grammy Award for Record of the Year until the Robert Plant and Alison Krauss US non-charting song "Please Read the Letter" won the same award in 2009. "Graceland" has been covered by artists such as Hot Chip, Grizzly Bear, Willie Nelson, El Vez, Casiotone for the Painfully Alone and The Tallest Man on Earth.

 Graceland 1992



Paul Simon's singing Graceland in The Central Park (91)



Paul Simon: The Story of Graceland



Bouns Graceland, with Wille Nelson



Setlist from Stockholm:

Kodachrome/Gone at Last
Dazzling Blue
50 Ways to Leave Your Lover
Vietnam/Mother and Child Reunion
Zydeco
Hearts and Bones / Mystery Train / Wheels
Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard
Slip Slidin' Away
The Obvious Child
Hello My Baby (with Ladysmith Black Mambazo)
Nomathemba (with Ladysmith Black Mambazo)
Homeless (with Ladysmith Black Mambazo)
Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes (with Ladysmith Black Mambazo)
I Know What I Know
The Boy in the Bubble
Crazy Love, Vol. II
Mandela (Bring Him Back Home)-(with Hugh Masekela)
African Sunset (with Thandiswa Mazwai)
Stimela (with Hugh Masekela)
Gumboots
Under African Skies (with Thandiswa Mazwai)
Graceland
You Can Call Me Al

Encore:

The Sound of Silence
The Boxer
Late in the Evening
Encore 2:

Still Crazy After All These Years

More info @

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