Paul Simon - Graceland (w/ guest Jesse Jackson)

The Great Albums

Bill Lambusta

Albums, Music Commentary, Criticism, Billlambusta, Brianerickson, Music

4.3 • 749 Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2018

⏱️ 115 minutes

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Summary

Podcaster Jesse Jackson (Set Lusting Bruce, Next Stop Everywhere) joins Bill and Brian to discuss Paul Simon's Graceland (1986, Warner Bros.). Bill, Brian, and Jesse talk about the world-spanning influences on the music like zydeco, isicathamiya, and mbaqanga, the political difficulties and possible faux pas Simon faced with apartheid South Africa, Ray Phiri's take on that and his great guitar riffs, that bass fill Bakithi Kumalo knocked out of the park, the King of the Bayou Clifton Chenier, maybe a few name drops for the Boss himself, and much more as we make our way through the album track by track! And, of course, check out this week's sponsor: !

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Great Albums podcast. I'm Bill. And I'm Brian. And what are we talking about today, Brian?
0:05.7	1986's Graceland by Paul Simon.
0:29.7	A man walks down... What we do here every week on the podcast is take an album of music and talk about what makes it great.
0:36.5	We try to have the conversation around the music that fans do, and then we cap it all off with a track-by-track review, in which we talk about the things that we like about the songs
0:39.2	and the things we think about while listening to them.
0:41.7	And we're not doing it alone this week.
0:43.4	Absolutely not.
0:44.2	Who joined us this week, Brian?
0:46.0	Today we're actually joined by Jesse Jackson of the set-lusting Bruce podcast.
0:51.9	We were on the set-lusting Bruce podcast a couple months back and now it has you know, we have returned the favor.
1:00.2	And we returned the favor by making Jesse not talk about Bruce.
1:05.2	We've done Bruce a few times.
1:06.9	So it felt like it was time to do something else.
1:10.0	And he had a good list.
1:11.0	And I'm really happy that we did Graceland with him.
1:13.9	Yeah, yeah, absolutely.
1:15.0	That's been one that's, yeah, you're going to have to get to it at some point.
1:20.2	You're going to have to talk about Graceland at some point.
1:23.3	So before we do talk about Graceland, Brian, so that we're all on the same page during the conversation, none of the namesdates or places will be surprises to anybody.
1:33.3	Can you give us a little bit of a background?
1:35.1	Sure.
1:35.4	Now, the background on Paul Simon, as we know, is humongous.
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