Pilgrim's Way is an English folk band from Stockport formed in 2010. They w… Read Full Bio ↴Pilgrim's Way is an English folk band from Stockport formed in 2010. They were nominated for the New Horizons award at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards 2012.

The three-piece band is a 'refreshingly different, reassuringly traditional' folk band, bringing together some of English folk's best talents. Named after the Rudyard Kipling poem (set to music by the great Peter Bellamy A Pilgrim's Way), they offer a unique brand of 'no-frills' folk, reflecting their musical apprenticeship in the industrial North West - edgier than the folk on the village green but firmly rooted in the traditions of England and its cross-currents with Ireland and America.

Box player, guitarist and multi-instrumentalist Edwin Beasant is a long-term fixture in the session tent of most UK folk festivals, as well as being a veteran of the well-respected dance band "Jabadaw".
Singer Lucy Wright is an internationally acclaimed jews harp player, increasingly in demand as a session musician and was described by Maggie Boyle as 'a wonderful young singer, possessed of one of the finest & most agile voices I ever heard'.

Fiddle player Tom Kitching has racked up dozens of festival appearances and two records on the Fellside label with guitarist Gren Bartley, as well as performing nationally in a variety of other line-ups.
Jon Loomes (Cittern, Guitar, Hurdy-Gurdy, Concertina, etc!) A consummate performer, arranger, multi-instrumentalist and ethno-musicologist, Jon is renowned for his work with traditional English folk music.
His debut solo album was released by Fellside Records to considerable acclaim and he has subsequently appeared as a guest musician on numerous CDs.
http://www.pilgrims-way.net/bandbios.html

The Boy In The Bubble
Pilgrims' Way Lyrics

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@trucynguyen124

2y↑110

The Mississippi Delta
Was shining like a national guitar
I am following the river
Down the highway
Through the cradle of the Civil War

I'm going to Graceland, Graceland
Memphis, Tennessee
I'm going to Graceland
Poor boys and pilgrims with families
And we are going to Graceland

My traveling companion is nine years old
He is the child of my first marriage
But I've reason to believe
We both will be received
In Graceland

She comes back to tell me she's gone
As if I didn't know that
As if I didn't know my own bed
As if I'd never noticed
The way she brushed her hair from her forehead
And she said, "losing love
Is like a window in your heart
Everybody sees you're blown apart
Everybody sees the wind blow"

I'm going to Graceland
Memphis, Tennessee
I'm going to Graceland
Poor boys and pilgrims with families
And we are going to Graceland

And my traveling companions
Are ghosts and empty sockets
I'm looking at ghosts and empties
But I've reason to believe
We all will be received
In Graceland

There is a girl in New York City
Who calls herself the human trampoline
And sometimes when I'm falling, flying
Or tumbling in turmoil I say
"Whoa, so this is what she means"
She means we're bouncing into Graceland

And I see losing love
Is like a window in your heart
Well, everybody sees you're blown apart
Everybody feels the wind blow
Ooh, ooh, ooh
In Graceland, in Graceland
I'm going to Graceland
For reasons I cannot explain
There's some part of me wants to see
Graceland
And I may be obliged to defend
Every love, every ending
Or maybe there's no obligations now
Maybe I've a reason to believe
We all will be received
In Graceland

Whoa, oh, oh
In Graceland, in Graceland, in Graceland
I'm going to Graceland

@probinson7967

1y↑1

Exactly. I was blown away by the brilliance of this song.

>>But I've reason to believe
We both will be received
In Graceland
...
For reasons I cannot explain
There's some part of me wants to see
Graceland
And I may be obliged to defend
Every love, every ending
Or maybe there's no obligations now
Maybe I've a reason to believe
We all will be received
In Graceland<<

Grace is possible, despite our failings.

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@janeweisner8364

14w↑45

I don’t think Paul Simon gets the respect and honor as a great American singer/songwriter poet. He is an American treasure.

@podpod

13w↑6

Nah he does

@dianebrantley2890

10w

I agree.!

@dingeswoeliewoelie3180

Yes!

@elrondhubbard7059

I tell you this as a culturally observant non-American westerner (I'm Australian), there are a small cast of zany characters who I think of as being uniquely American. And not in some tacky, flag-waving sense. Someone like Hunter Thompson or Theodore Roosevelt or Bob Dylan. Certain personalities that have been forged by a unique American identity.

I have always understood the 'American-ness' of Paul Simon's songs. Like in The Boxer he talks about being in New York in the winter and befriending homeless people and how bad he wants to go home, or in Papa Hobo he sings about how good Detroit's hockey team is and how much carbon dioxide you breathe in while living there.
There's nothing like a Paul Simon song. It's like a folk tale about travelling through he U.S., town by town, and being on some kind of beatnik hobo journey where you sleep in rough places but have lifechanging experiences.

He is absolutely in my eyes an American treasure.

@usaamahsiddiqui2286

He does

@devious187

21w↑16

She said losing love is like a window in your heart, everybody sees you're blown apart... what a fantastic lyricist, he knows how to paint a picture with words

@jonahtonto

19w

As if I never noticed the way she brushed her hair and farted

@cuzinofie6

Ive always cherished and admired his ability to stay so real and vulnerable/writing REAL lyrics while in the music industry and famous.

@manqobanzimande7652

38w↑20

i have a reason to believe we will all be received in GRACELAND....

@Sthembiso2020

37w↑7

Im South African. The 1st time I heard this song i watching the Oprah show in the mid 2000s and I was like 'okay why is an American white guy singing to South African bassline'. I did some searching and that's how I discovered the great Graceland album. I love it

@mrfake4510

34w

🤛ngena la,mfetu.

@gemmabryden4864

12w

I have always wanted to go to South Africa As they say in Zulu Yebo

@redduketeleman

1y↑35

The Mississippi delta was shining like a National guitar....what an opening line.

@marcuscook3852

1y↑2

Comparable with "Hello darkness my old friend".

@boogiedahomey

13w↑1

Paul Simon once said he thought it was the most perfect line he'd ever written. Hard to disagree, although the choices are many.

@gabo-guerrero

One of the most beautiful and, to me, personal songs write by Simon. It gives me the goosebumps everything i hear it

@christelleflorine818

39w↑5

I've loved a lot of song but Graceland will stay my first luv
I will be in Graceland 1 day
When there's a will there's a way❤

@nessesaryschoolthing

2y↑49

"She comes back to tell me she's gone..."
I can't get over the quality of that one line. It's 8 words, and it says so much! He's surprised, he's hurt, he has to get across how incredulous he is about this, so he phrases it as an irony, as a contradiction, something almost funny. And the way he sings it really conveys what a slope it is: from hope right down to despair. That is a sharp line, like a needle!

@adamdorgant9454

True!!!

@seelooney5509

1y↑1

Great song writing for sure

@ssQ2U

45w↑2

As if I didnt know that
as if I didnt know
my own bed

@garethhayes2552

40w↑1

Is that inspired by his relationship with Carrie Fisher? I read somewhere that at least part of that song was inspired by his marriage to her

@colin8860

15w↑13

Every time I fly international I plug in my earphones and listen to this over and over in its entirety. Other passengers must think I am mad sitting there grooving to what has to be the best music ever.

@fergusmcd1

14w

I believe he went to Africa and picked the melodies... and returned to America and composed the lyrics...

@nicoloscozzari6205

I throw this and The Mars Voltas Frances The Mute on endless repeat on my road trips. Much love from one traveler to another. Happy trails from califooooooorniaaaaa

@RobsMiscellania

2y↑782

The song refers to Graceland as a place with a geographic location, yet all the other lyrics indicate that Graceland is not a place in physical existence. Instead, it is the desired destination of outcasts, misfits; the downtrodden and brokenhearted; the hope, the immutable faith, that there is a refuge or solace from our obligation to justify ourselves in this free-fall called Life. Graceland...it must exist. It just has to. A place where there is a sense of homecoming, and the bread in the kitchen is always warm and tasty, somehow, as if it were freshly baked.

@ianmillar7579

2y↑28

Nonsense

@WesEditz_

2y↑21

No Graceland the king of rock n roll house graceland in Memphis ever heard of it buddy

@georgesawtooth2214

2y↑34

Of course it is reference to existence after this one which some call Heaven.

@RosePetal17

2y↑51

@@WesEditz_ Of course he knows this, because he did say: "The song refers to Graceland as a place with a geographic location, yet,,," I love his deeper metaphorical description of Paul's brilliant lyrics.

@guythrelfo8987

2y↑36

This is cool. I think you're right. After reading your description, I think this is a song about loss, hurt and hope. Graceland stands for hope - hope that a "place" exists where outcasts and misfits belong. "I have reason to believe we all be received in Graceland".

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@timhensley1297

1y↑4

I was at Graceland in 1967 or so. 7-8yrs old. Drove up the driveway at Graceland with my uncle. We went right up to the front door. I was hoping Elvis was home. He was not. I was so disappointed. I'll always remember that time. Don't know what it is about that place, but I feel home there. Nobody will ever be Elvis, one of a kind, one of an era. I feel like I am transported back in time, to when I was a kid. Go there, you will know what I mean.

@tafimutekwe2855

2y↑289

Paul Simon completely re-invented himself with Graceland, the album. An artistically brilliant album.

@tafimutekwe2855

1y↑5

@Paul SimonI am most humbled to get a message from a true legend. I was already listening to the great Paul Simon when I was a young boy in the 70' ; such classics like Mardi Gras were staple diet on our local radio in the then Rhodesia. My greatest moment was seeing the legend in person during your ground-breaking Gracelands world tour, the Harare leg in 1987. Long live and happiness to my hero!

@tafimutekwe2855

1y↑1

Thank you Legend.

@tafimutekwe2855

1y↑1

@Paul Simon Most definitely. Only too glad to do so.

@gregfaber3417

1y↑2

One of the greatest albums ever

@archerynut

51w↑2

My father raised me listening to this album. It is such a part of my fabric. Thanks Dad!

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@garyvandermeer5495

2y↑68

‘Losing love is like a window in your heart, everybody sees you’re blown apart, everybody sees the wind blow’
That’s it, that in a nutshell is the twist of emptiness you feel in your chest when it ends, perfect words to express that feeling

@justsomefather2739

33w↑25

As a person who mostly listens to metal, hard rock, new wave this is possibly one of the greatest album of all time. Thanks mom for having great taste in music

@brotherbill1000

32w↑1

For me it's my uncle Cornelius.

@mikec6347

26w↑2

Metal head here too. My dad introduced me as a kid in the early 80s. Same here. Thanks dad for great taste.

@justinhunt1714

11w

It's most definitely a tip-top shelf album for any music lover.

@stevieeplea5611

I went to Graceland in September 2022 for my birthday it was a bucket list all my life my family call me Elvis Presley's biggest fan I could be going back in 2024 it is something e every Elvis fan has to do one I went in twice it's magical great song I sing I've been to Graceland 😂

@HappierNowe

30w↑6

She comes back to tell me she’s gone. As if I didn’t know that, as if I didn’t know my own bed. As if I’d never noticed…the way she brushed her hair from her forehead.
❤

@jfmart73

30w

One of my fav lines of any song... so raw and emotive

@ellie4123

1y↑334

hands down one of the greatest songs of all time

@lordgoro

1y↑12

I refuse to disagree!

@christopherrostad4099

1y↑7

Have to agree. My favorite album ever

@ingo6367

1y↑6

man you are totally right !!

@Ollay245

48w↑4

tied in a very foreign stlye of guitar with contemporary music, it's always going to be one of my favourite songs, it evokes so many emotions in me

@OrganicAxxl89

42w

what about the boy in the bubble ? atleast the best one on the album...but yeah good one

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@flipflop1975ify

2y↑270

I listened this on loop in 1986 as an 11 year old on my Walkman. I do believe I know every word of every track on the Album. Very happy times indeed 😊

@747heavyboeing3

2y↑15

Kids today don't even know what a Walkman was.
His traveling companion was 9 years old.

@soniamo4139

2y↑5

I did the same with my walkman CD player in the late 90s with other albums. Thanks for the good memories!

@playoffmodesp2536

2y↑5

@@747heavyboeing3 Some do, some don't. He was the child of his first marriage.

@sarahtonen4873

2y↑1

I was 11 in 1986 and listened the heck out of this song, except it was a tape deck in my parents Jetta when we moved to France

@mrsusan5672

Every word you say? What's the fourth one?

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@markvanklaveren7356

40w↑27

Paul's voice was never better. The album is a masterpiece

@archerynut

32w

Agreed a thousand times over. I grew up with this particular album as a constant. Its soothing and so very well done. Real stroke of genius by Paul.

@sallyjoan

32w

so glad we have your approval.@@archerynut

@bgorski6937

12w

50 Ways to Leave Your Lover in my opinion is his best vocal performance.🤷‍♂️

@notused.

45w↑10

Paul is the intense, emotional, fragile talented man who writes these amazing percussive songs. Art, the confident showman with a beautiful voice. A match made in both heaven and hell.

@karendoyal828

44w↑1

Amen...

@southernnorthstar

1y↑5

Paul Simon is a legend ladies and gentlemen

@Bangahaha

43w↑68

The brilliance of Paul Simon can never be overstated.
Thanks for all of it.

@clarebents7712

1y↑1

I was flying back home from London, bought this album for my husband in an airport shop. he died 7 years ago, I miss himmore than ever. xxx

@The_ZeroLine

1y↑94

For some reason, little kids in the 80s and early 90s loved this album as much as their parents.

@athena854

1y↑8

Lmao that’s because we were forced to listen to whatever tape mom & dad picked and eventually it grew on us.

I was at a party at my cousins’ apartment c. 2008 and we were all taking turns iPod DJing…I think my playlist was like Santigold, TV on the Radio & Lil Wayne and I was mortified when I came back inside and found my “guilty pleasures” playlist blasting this. I ran to unplug it and someone was like “pls no, can we hear Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes next?”

Dude managed to take the two most awful parts of the 80s (Reagan and apartheid) and make a yuppie-friendly album that still totally slaps over 35 years later. Impressive.

@inkenbeck4005

1y↑4

I'm Born in 2010 and I Loved thus Album since I was 5 years old

@suzannakruger4820

1y↑4

And teens. I was a teen, my parents played this over and over on car trips.

@gregfaber3417

1y↑2

My mom had us play this album all the time.

@iSoundpro

1y↑3

haha, i am one of those, used to listen to this album in the 90s with my mom while driving in the car, 32 now and regularly come back

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@Orzorn

42w↑56

I will always have fond memories of this album. My mother had it on cassette tape and we listened to it so many times in the car. Graceland was the perfect song to bumble along in the car in the countryside, looking out at the world moving by to its beat.

@kristinagradishar4824

34w↑2

Same ❤..my mom loved Paul Simon. She listened to this all of the time. She passed when I was 16 in 1992. This album reminds me of her.

@Migzzzish

34w↑2

Experienced the same....I'll never forget going through New Mexico in 2016 with this song playing in the car...

@tdd206

31w↑1

Gosh. Same: I still love this nearly perfect album.

@zephyrleapold6796

31w↑1

Dang how could so many of us have this same experience?

@shawnamunyer9680

28w

Same. My mom had the cassette. I used to listen on my walkman. The entire album blows me away.

@stephengrube1532

2y↑349

My God, what a fabulous piece of music.

@evie-rosegaywood1211

2y↑6

I completely agree !

@ianwhitehead691

2y↑7

Buietiful piece of music touches my
Soul every time I hear it.

@jona5517

2y↑5

Agreed but today the woke cancel culture would hang him out to dry for "cultural appropriation" using African musicians and sounds for this entire album, the same with Rhythm of the Saints....with him using native South American sounds and musicians...

@frederickson333

1y↑7

@@jona5517 this is laughably ignorant

@desRiu

1y↑1

vaya memorias dios mio ... 😍

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@michaelwright8390

37w↑5

Graceland is one of the finest songs I've ever heard.

@mikesobirey9529

1y↑2

If a RIVER ... has spoken through human beings in the human way.

@redwoods7370

1y↑26

Beautiful, spiritual, haunting and evocative song. We all want to go to Graceland literally and figuratively. Rest peacefully in Graceland LMP.

@rigelfish3378

2y↑176

I listen to this song with one reason only: TO RECOVER MY SOUL.

@charlespage8692

2y↑3

You rule Fish.

@pauldgear8111

2y↑2

Amen

@JeffRebornNow

2y↑2

Music heaIs, doesn't it?

@VitoBell

Elton John? XD

@IAmSuzyQ

Me and you both, my friend! This song is like giving my soul a breath of fresh air... It makes my heart smile.

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@bevanabrey7865

13w↑1

Wrote the music, wrote the lyrics, played the music, sang the lyrics. In a very real sense the truly great musical talents like Paul Simon ARE music. Their combined influences steered the evolution of music through the decades to bring it to its present state. The likes of Elvis, Michael Jackson, Bob Dylan, Roy Orbison, Paul McCartney, to mention are some of the other members of that very elite group, I would say.

@mhsewbiz

2y↑6

The Everly Brothers are singing with Paul on this one! Beautiful!

@mhsewbiz

@Paul Simon ♥

@TheHelvis12345

2y↑5

WHO WANTS TO BE THERE......SEE THE PLACE WHERE THE KING WAS.

@indigoziona

8w↑1

Sometimes when I'm falling, flying, or tumbling in turmoil, I say, whoa, so this is what she means.
She means we're bouncing into Graceland.

@hollyandtheev6519

1y↑3

Poetry is lean and true.

This is poetry.

@Bigeazy87

1y↑8

Paul Simon in the mid-1980s could have easily packed it in. Great run as Simon and Garfunkel. Great solo career for the decade afterward. But no, he challenged himself, and the result was the stunning Graceland album, his finest. What a treasure!

@hermanhelmich

2y↑331

‘Losing love is like a window in your heart
Everybody sees you’re blown apart
Everybody sees the wind blow’

Brilliant

@adambean7739

2y↑13

Best lyric of the song, which is saying A LOT!!

@adamdorgant9454

2y↑8

Agreed!!!!

@somniloguy12

2y↑12

unparalleled songwriting

@christelleflorine818

2y↑7

Ooh yeah

@emmaporritt5910

2y↑7

My favourite ever lyric 🥰

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@jamsguitars24

Paul Simon does a really solid job of balancing folk music and high art at the same time, especially for someone from NY. The sound of the South African musicians he performed with on Graceland are what makes this album magical and really special to me

@gregfaber3417

1y↑35

"Losing love is like a window in your heart" gets me everytime

@ardalla535

46w↑2

that IS a great line

@JeffRebornNow

38w↑3

@@ardalla535 I wrote a poem around that line.

@sallyjoan

32w

course you did.@@JeffRebornNow

@padmewan

2y↑20

One of the most beautiful and lyrical explorations of kind of deep hurt that can only be healed by grace, that is, a force outside of human will. Despite its direct invocation of the Christian notion of grace, this song never explicitly endorses a religious perspective, instead meditating on the ache and desire for forgiveness from mistakes that we never quite shed. "Graceland" takes the cliche of midlife crisis and connects it to both deep spiritual mystery and mundane details. (The line "the way she brushed her hair from her forehead" lands as a keen observation of a longtime companion, and is echoed in Simon's eventual long-term wife's song, "Lost in the Moment"). A true masterpiece of Simon's poetry and musicality.

@martyndutton2752

1y↑19

This album is in my top 5 . I'm 54 now . What an album ♥️

@mahlodimagagane1012

2y↑14

Listened to this growing up and destroyed my father's vinyln. Years later I bought both of us cd's. Still love the album in 2022.🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦

@stephmcglone

38w↑2

Losing love is like a window in your heart,beautiful

@paulstevenson789

15w↑1

We will all Indeed be Accepted into Grace Land by Faith Alone in the Blood of The Risen Lord Jesus Christ!!

@peterrollinson-lorimer

14w↑1

No thanks, but have fun.

@paulstevenson789

14w

Have Fun!!!@@peterrollinson-lorimer

@rickcooper53

13w↑2

That was not at all what Paul Simon was referring to ! Get over yourself.

@paulstevenson789

13w

Are you offended by my perspective?@@rickcooper53

@samuelkgame2544

1y↑4

Ray Phiri's guitar skills were magical on Graceland may his soul rest in peace.

@ColmGibney

2y↑274

One of the best songs ever.

@krazmokramer

2y↑21

One of the best ALBUMS ever

@ColmGibney

2y↑2

@@krazmokramer I agree.

@christopherdanielpersonal1614

2y↑2

Ir true.....!

@g.t.phillips7759

2y↑2

100%

@zacharybrown5360

2y↑3

Have to agree 👍

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@trucynguyen124

2y↑110

@gunterweber1972

2y↑3

Good Job👍❤️🇩🇪

@emmanuelroosevelt6840

2y↑2

Thanks bro...

@henryprecious2046

2y↑1

Beautiful

@BJBee

Thank you Ribs

@NevadaBoss

2y↑112

As good as it gets...lyrically, musically, rhythmically...an instant masterpiece. Almost 40years later, and have yet to cease being amazed at its brilliance...

@meesterbrightside

1y↑4

One of the only songs that still gets heavy rotation in my house, even after all these years. This is brilliance that never, ever gets old

@garyfrost4276

52w

Mmmmmmm

@TR1NKA

50w↑2

👍 Had to return for a listen too; still speaks

@awhite3747

36w

100%. That guitar gives me goosebumps evety time. And the way he sings. Just glides through the lyrics, sometimes with the rhythm but mostly over it.

@artemisiam.8391

1y↑24

This album Is a masterpiece

@skyneely9327

20w↑2

I’m going to Graceland December 29th and I can’t wait!!!!!

@irafutterman5557

1y↑11

South African musicians don't play minor chords, they wisely made an exception for Paul Simon .

@devious187

1y↑12

One of my dad's favorite songs, so many memories of him and I dancing around to this... he's been gone 12 years now but I still listen o this and think of him in Graceland... I freaking love the bassline

@manqobanzimande7652

38w

RIP to your dad, yes the bassline is awesome, eternal

@pablodebella7695

2y↑6

"losing love is like a window in your heart, everyone sees you blown appart, everybody sees the wind blow". What a phrase.

@lyricarol

2y↑1

And so perfectly accurate.

@randygriest2096

17w↑1

Beautifully described blessings to you all as we all traverse and navigate towards Agape (Graceland)

@raymccranie7872

20w↑3

It has to be Elvis,s old hangout because Paul Simon mentions Memphis, Tenn. I,d say that kind of narrows it down. Mississippi Delta? I mean come on! Why is this an issue? BTW, We love Paul!!!❤❤❤

@charlieprice3881

49w↑3

Remarkable song. Very moving actually. "Losing love is like a window in your heart"

@goto8390

26w↑1

I visited a Depeche Mode concert lately and I was asthonished how much of this Simon-colored african beats and vibes lured it's way into their music. It's not always easy to detect for everybodys ear. Even you can find it as a polish in their older songs sometimes. I thought they were truly influeced directly or indirectly by Paul Simon and Graceland.

@UlloMark

2y↑42

Love this:
'I've reason to believe, that we all will be received... in Graceland'

@ralphricart3177

2y↑4

This is the greatest album ever made.

@euanscotland

1y↑4

Ive Never heard this guy before.
I hope he will have a great career!!

@nuruddinjitmoud3926

48w↑2

He sure did

@NickCADA

2y↑1

One of the greatest places in America. Everyone who visits America should visit Graceland at least once.

@ianshaw9874

'losing love is like a window in your heart' Paul Simon says is special line - for him too

@ianord6893

28w↑10

It doesn’t get much better than this, a true masterpiece

@PixelNotesMusic

2y↑32

The choir at 2:00 is a fantastic detail in the song that breaks your heart every time.

@disdoncable

2y↑5

That's the Everly Brothers, my friend. They provided the gorgeous backing vocals on this song.

@PixelNotesMusic

2y↑1

@@disdoncable Oh cool, I didn't know that!

@evie-rosegaywood1211

@@disdoncable was about to say that ;)

@patrickdelaney2299

2y↑3

Yes, I believe we'll all be received ❤️

@waynewisecarver

2y↑12

Inspite of all the criticism leveled at him, Simon went to South Africa, and there he soaked up the rhythms that took him to a new level.

@CooManTunes

Glad he went to South Africa. Any other African country and we'd probably have a picture of Paul's head on a spear. D:

@bulldoggery

You make it sound like people were just being sanctimonious. Hopefully you are too young to remember the life and death struggle for basic human rights taking place at the time. Hopefully, you don't realize there was a worldwide economic boycott in progress, to try to end apartheid.

Sure, it's a great album. But he wasn't just being rude, he was ignoring that he was providing economic support to the Botha administration. There were ways of meeting up with South African musicians outside of South Africa.

@lyricarol

@@bulldoggery What do you think of Black Lady Monzombo's participation?

@c.s.mcleod7383

2y↑26

Syncopation between guitar,bass,percussion.'c'est manifique!

@la8306

47w↑3

Im 17 and its my fsvorite song

@Mike-Like

1y↑1

Y'all Know this, music is HUGE in my life. When searching for something. I end on Paul Simon. That is a testament to, my listening skills. Y'all think about that. LUV YA

@phillipbrown2318

2y↑13

This is MASTERFULLY crafted by Paul simon.

@747heavyboeing3

He made Simon and Garfunkel epic!

@robinlikes2learn

2y↑44

Love the backing harmonising vocals of Don and Phil Everly - hopefully re-united and singing together again in the hereafter. RIP Don and Phil, the world of music was changed for the better when you two came along!

@cak8132

You got that right, Robin!! Don and Phil were unique. They have been many good duos since them but none of them comes close to what the Everlys did.

@santaclase3410

sharing🥰🥰🥰😇😇😇Thanks for sharingTesla’s 3-6-9 and Vortex Math

@birdieafton5227

2y↑16

My father loves this song, and I grew up with it. In fact, I grew up with a lot of songs about a better place. “Freedom Land”, “Let My People Go”, etc. I think it means something special to minorities. That even though there are places where people hate you, there are gracelands. There are dreams for us, too.

@alanf7395

36w↑2

I heard this song on Voice of America radio in 1988 while stationed in the Air Force in Germany. Brings back nice memories.

@chukaman

35w↑1

Thank you. Danke schoen

@MrAlamo1957

2y↑35

Every now and again a piece of music comes along that truly blows you away, this was such a moment.

@probinson7967

1y↑1

@RedactieVoetbalhumor

1y↑3

When my mom passed away we found her red diary where she always wrote down her addresses and phone numbers. It also contained five songs under the heading 'when I'm dead'. Paul Simon - Graceland was one of those songs. I can say my mom was a real music connoisseur :-).

@ericfelds6291

28w

Thats sincerely profoundly beautiful, seriously thank you for sharing.

@playoffmodesp2536

2y↑39

Why would someone dislike this masterpiece?

@adamdorgant9454

2y↑2

I was wondering the same thing!!!

@dominikoliver7909

Probably it's racist.

@playoffmodesp2536

@@dominikoliver7909 how come?

@dominikoliver7909

2y↑2

@@playoffmodesp2536 Mississippi is in the south Memphis, graceland so probably someone thinks it's racist. You never know nowadays. 😂

@playoffmodesp2536

2y↑3

@@dominikoliver7909 yeah I think you're barking up the wrong tree. It's just that there will always be negative opinions on something. No matter what...

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@djtforever1414

2y↑1

Interesting that an album that features South African music so prominently is named after a place in Tennessee!

@VizualRevolushunn

1y↑2

Bakithi Khumalo on that badass fretless bass is what makes this song so great

@petraluger5357

2y↑4

the national guitars are incredible !!!!!

@MattC-ve2hx

33w↑1

An amazing song for so many reasons. Among them a perfect driving song. White stripes, roadside brush blurring by in time to the music. Hell, if Paul wrote it while looking out a tour bus window it wouldn't surprise me. This tune puts me in the bus, looking out.

@eddiev1548

23w↑1

The good old days🥲🙏🏻 God I miss the 80s

@charlesbird1267

2y↑18

This album is right up there with Brige over Troubled Water. Brilliant

@VajrabhairavaSamantabhadra

10w

We live in...
SPACEman, SPACEman.
Check the SCENERY😊🌌🌎🗻

@ant0586

45w↑6

This is just glorious. Beautiful

@ulrichwill496

2y↑5

Ein unglaublicher Song!!! ❤️❤️🇨🇭

@adammcpherson4292

2y↑4

This is for my uncle Edward, merry Christmas mate, miss you 👍

@seelooney5509

1y↑3

My favorite part is "she comes back to tell me she's gone. As if I didn't know that. As if I didn't know my own bed..."

@sgtpreppy7148

1y↑1

too all the fans wish i was going to graceland...i miss you too...rip lmp

@SkyOfTheUniverse

1y↑4

Masterpiece of history

@chuck23x48

18w↑1

Woww...Paul Simon Great Hit.....This its My Live😊

@nickanderson8497

2y↑91

I've still got the original vinyl, it's a superb example of musical healing.

@marcushinton2335

2y↑5

You get it Nick...You have eyes that see and ears that hear. Thank you for your comment. I stumbled upon your comment listening to Paul, obviously, but your comment healed me...1% and I have a long road ahead but 1% is 1% closer to Graceland... so thank you

@randallhutchcraft5518

1y↑13

Great song, Simon is one in a million.

@anderssilber3330

49w

Wrong... One in 100 mill...

@cazb877

2y↑2

I am, next year! 🇺🇸🎶❤️

@barnabasmzeya1356

2y↑4

Excellent wonder when Paul Simon's will comeback to Zimbabwe again.Graceland show in Zim in1987 was wonderful

@Bobmacca64

1y↑1

'She comes back to tell me she's gone' . How great is that line?

@user-km5rg4it6y

21w

This song was inspired by Elvis Presley and his home of Graceland.

@soniamo4139

2y↑52

Learning this on bass. Couldn't sleep last night, because I knew I could play this! Getting there!

@therealdeal9698

2y↑1

Watch the live version from the concert 1987 with Miriam Makeba , you will see the happiest bass player ever , Brilliant

@yvonnewelch6314

@The Real Deal ladysmith Black mambazo If you seen the video .. 😀❤

@bodulica3

46w

Why are this kind of artists in this world? Because they make even God happy and fill his body with the pure beauty.

@hdrmadness2731

2y↑184

The Mississippi delta was shining like a National guitar

@simonquinton925

2y↑6

Poetry

@joewright9879

2y↑9

Ever driven through the Mississippi delta? I have. A lot. For years and years. Ain’t never seen no poetry drifting around there.
Great song though.

@sonyabladesbooty3890

2y↑1

I see you also listened to the song

@dleoner1

2y↑6

@@joewright9879 yeah, but was it shining like a national guitar or not? That’s the real question

@joewright9879

2y↑2

@@dleoner1 not that I ever saw.

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@boogiedahomey

13w

I grew up in northern England and Simon and Garfunkel were a huge part of the soundtrack of my youth (he even wrote Homeward Bound very close to where I lived).
Many years later, I now live in Texas and recently found out that Paul has moved to Wimberley, not an hour away from me. A friend spots him on occasion around town. I hope to bump into him one day just to say "Thank you".

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