Paul Simon: Born at the Right Time

Paul Simon issued his album The Rhythm of the Saints in 1990, four years after Graceland. It uses Latin American and South American music as its basis, just as Graceland had used South African.

Here the North American voice is not the introspective Simon, but a brash persona. And the song, for me, is about hope and redemption coming from the poor.

Now listen to the Brazilian drummers on The Obvious Child from the same album.