Friday, April 30, 2004

Album of the Day

Paul Simon: Graceland. While Graceland's importance as an icon of the incorporation of world music into Western pop is overstated (Peter Gabriel did much more several years earlier, for example), it's still a really really good record. It's full of interesting collaborations, most notably with South African musicians. But one of the best tunes ("All Around the World or The Myth of Fingerprints") has a closer-to-home set of collaborators - Los Lobos.

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