PAUL SIMON - Graceland Format:LP - Vinyl snatched them off the street

snatched them off the street

strange and deeply endearing artistic world that would become Dionysos’s signature

Brimming with infectious heavy funk

What I needed was to create music from the ground up with nothing but sound

PAUL SIMON - Graceland Format:LP - Vinyl snatched them off the streetLP Black Vinyl With Graceland, Paul Simon hit on the idea of combining his always perceptive songwriting with the little heard mbaqanga music of South Africa, creating a fascinating hybrid that re enchanted his old audience and earned him a new one. It is true that the South African angle (including its controversial aspect during the apartheid days) was a powerful marketing tool and that the catchy music succeeded in presenting listeners with that