Graceland

"Maybe I've a reason to believe
We all will be received
In Graceland"

-Paul Simon

As we drove from St Louis to Memphis I had a yearning to listen to Lucinda Williams.

I asked my man, if he could make it happen.

He asked how long he had.

“An hour or two I guess, why?”

He was quiet and fiddling with his phone for awhile then he plugged the phone into the, I’m not really sure, and just like that, Lucinda Williams was strumming and crooning from our speakers.

Apparently there is an internet radio station that has a 6 day trial period for us to try.

St Louis to Memphis, enhanced thanks to Rdio.

The album had in mind was one I listened to quite a lot when the girls were little.

In my memory it was heartbreakingly beautiful album.

I have not listened to it since that time and this time around it was sweeter and lighter, and of course, still beautiful.

I asked my girl if it sounded familiar and she said it did.

We followed it up with a request for the British, Corrinne Bailey Rae, whose soulful singing matched the steamy humidity the deep rivers we were crossing and driving beside.

We moved on to Muddy Waters for awhile as well.

After a rest stop to make tea, 

where we were treated with a sight of birds nest. 

We resumed with Paul Simon’s Graceland. Another album from baby days.

The drive to Memphis was around 6 hrs I think. We stopped a few times and had some breaks from music and stuck in my head was Paul Simon's Graceland.

Honestly, I really like to sing around close friends and family, but I don't know the right words to any song. Really.
I kept singing Graceland, but one of the girls finally said "that's not even how it goes" so we found the album and listened to the whole thing.

And, no, we didn't go to Graceland.

We are having a reminiscent trip for sure.


"This is is the story of how we begin to remember”

Under African Skies, Paul Simon