Dwight’s linking of this piece on accordions got me listening to my favorite album featuring accordions, Paul Simon’s Graceland, one of the all time great albums. I was vaguely aware that a 25th Anniversary edition had come out, and poking around online I find that a documentary on the album had come out last year, all of which is available online.
If you like the album, ths documentary is well worth your time.
For Boxing Day, here’s Simon & Garfunkle’s classic “The Boxer”:
What do you mean I’m doing it wrong?
Well, not so much. It’s 72° here in Austin right now. But this was running through my head, so I thought I would share.
Too bad it cuts off at the end. I prefer the guitar part on the studio version, but Art’s voice is quite lovely here.
Rereading this post made me go poking around the Internet, where I came across this vintage video of Simon & Garfunkel performing “Richard Corey” live in 1966:
Two- (and three- and four-) part harmony is sadly underutilized in music today…
…but Paul Simon’s cover of “Biko” is pretty good:
And Stephen Merritt (who Neil Gaiman is big on) at least makes a credible effort on “Not One of Us”: