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Paul Simon’s new house in Wimberley, Texas, has made him the talk of the town

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Singer-songwriter Paul Simon performs at Global Citizen Live on Sept. 25, 2021, in New York. Simon recently moved to Wimberley, Texas, with his wife, Dallas-born singer Edie Brickell.(Evan Agostini / Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)

By Michael Granberry

10:46 AM on Oct 13, 2022 CDT

The great Paul Simon once wrote a song titled “Old Friends,” which contains the line: “How terribly strange to be 70.” Well, today is Simon’s birthday, and he is now 81. That’s one year older than Cowboys owner Jerry Jones, whose birthday is also today.

Simon and Jones have more than a birthday in common. Turns out they both live in Texas. Simon, who grew up in Queens, N.Y., and his Dallas-born wife, Edie Brickell — who grew up in Oak Cliff and graduated from Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts — now have a home in Wimberley, near Austin in the Texas Hill Country.

“I wanted to have a closer proximity to the band,” Brickell, who’s mainly lived in the Northeast since marrying Simon in 1992, told the Austin American-Statesman. “So we got a place down in Wimberley that has a big jam barn. It’s a dream that we’ve had since we were kids, and it’s finally come to pass. We’re having so much fun playing there.”

Simon even made an appearance on a Wimberley radio station, KWVH-FM, in June and got written up with a glowing article in the local newspaper, The Wimberley View.

As reporter Colton McWilliams wrote in The View: The 16-time “Grammy Award winning musician, two-time inductee into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Wimberley Valley resident Paul Simon made a surprise guest appearance in what amounted to the interview of a lifetime. Locals gathered around the ‘fishbowl’ studio at the radio station just off the Wimberley Square just to get a glimpse of the famous musician in person.”

During the three-hour interview, Simon told the hosts of “Toddy and the Pooch Unleashed”: “Edie and I listen to you all the time. We drive by and we wave.”

Simon riffed on music from the 1950s, in particular two of his favorites — Little Richard and Bo Diddley — and how they influenced some of his earliest music with Art Garfunkel.

Two hours in, Simon picked up what a station executive described as “a beat-up old acoustic guitar in the main studio” and began singing one of his classics, “Me and Julio Down By the Schoolyard,” as Brickell whistled the melody.

The guys doing the interview were Todd Crusham and co-host Benjamin Hotchkiss. Crusham’s brother Kyle is an associate of Brickell’s, having produced her 2021 album, Hunter and the Dog Star.

“We’re Wimberley people,” Simon told them, “so we’ll come back and do it again.”

More than anything, the Simon marathon underscores Wimberley’s new distinction as a hideout for great musical talents. Yet another Grammy Award-winning icon and fellow inductee in the Songwriters Hall of Fame lives nearby — Willie Nelson, who turned 89 in April. We can only imagine those Wimberley jam sessions.

Michael Granberry, Arts Writer. Michael Granberry was born and grew up in Dallas. He graduated from Samuell High School in Pleasant Grove in 1970 and from Southern Methodist University in 1974. Between his junior and senior years, he interned at The Washington Post during "the Watergate summer" of 1973. He spent 19 years at the Los Angeles Times before returning to Dallas.

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Paul Frederick Simon is a three-time Grammy Award winner for Best Album of the Year. Many works written by the composer (for example, The sound of silence, Sounds of Silence) remain hits even now, and the song Mrs. Robinson became the musical calling card of America at the end of 1960s.

Childhood and youth

The future musician was born in Newark in the midst of autumn 1941. Now the population of the largest city in the state of New Jersey is one-third less than in the year the child was born.

Paul's parents, like the mother of Kiss rock band leader Gene Simmons, are Hungarian Jews settled in the United States. The boy's father, Louis, taught at the college and played the double bass, his mother, named Bell, worked as a school teacher.

Paul and his younger brother Eddie grew up in New York's most diverse neighborhood, Queens. The Simons were assimilated and, with neophyte enthusiasm, were fascinated by African American motifs and baseball. Although the performer himself plays the guitar, African drums are used in many of his compositions - for example, in the famous Obvious Child.

At the age of 11, the teenager began a friendship and collaboration with Art Garfunkel. The boys took part in the play "Alice in Wonderland" together. At the age of 13, classmates began to sing and play at school parties. The father of the future star wrote the song The Girl for Me for young musicians.

After graduating, the buddies briefly parted ways: Art studied mathematics at Columbia University in New York, and Simon received a bachelor's degree in English literature and studied for 1 semester at Brooklyn Law School. But the passion for melodic art won, and the friends united in a duet, which was named by analogy with the animated film - "Tom and Jerry".

Personal life

In his early youth, Paul had an affair with an Englishwoman, Kathleen Mary Chitty, who sold tickets to a club where Simon performed. The photo of the lovers graced the cover of The Paul Simon Songbook, which opened the musician's personal discography.

Peggy's first legal wife, who gave birth to her son Harper in 1972, inspired the man to write several compositions for the Hearts and Bones compilation. However, the album was released after the divorce that followed in 1975.

Paul's second wife was Elizabeth Taylor's stepdaughter, actress and novelist Carrie Fisher. In Russia, the artist is known mainly for her role as Princess Leia Organa in the Star Wars film epic. Based on Fisher's book, in 1990, Mike Nichols directed the comedy-drama Postcards from the Edge of the Abyss, in which the main character was played by Meryl Streep.

Between Peggy and Carrie, the man dated actress Shelley Duvall. The lovers appeared together in Woody Allen's Annie Hall, which received 4 Oscars. The director, who played the main male role in the film, used elements of his biography for the plot. Paul's namesake, writer and film critic John Simon, who died in 2019year, called the film formless, boring and aimless.

The musician found happiness in his personal life with the singer Edie Brickell, who is a quarter of a century younger than him. In this marriage, 3 children were born: Adrian, Lulu and Gabriel. In 2014, the couple were accused of violating public order - the artists' family quarrel turned into a fight. In a Connecticut court, a husband and wife, holding hands, said that the conflict was over and they did not see each other as a threat.

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In early 1964, Paul and Art successfully auditioned for Columbia Records, but the producer recommended to friends that the duet's name be changed from Tom and Jerry to Simon and Garfunkel. The team lasted until 1970th and released 5 albums, which were a synthesis of rock, pop and folk motifs.

The best-known collection is Bridge over Troubled Water, which includes El Condor Pasa (If I Could) ("Flight of the Condor"). When recording a cover version of "Condor" for the record, Simon was convinced that the song was folk. However, it turned out that the author of the hit is the Peruvian musician Daniel Robles.

Although in the future Paul and Art chose to pursue solo careers, the former bandmates reunited several times. Yes, at 1981 "Simon and Garfunkel" gave a concert in New York's Central Park, where there were 500 thousand spectators, and then went on a world tour. In 2010, the duo sang at the New Orleans Jazz Festival.

At the turn of the 2nd and 3rd millennia, the artist collaborated with Bob Dylan and Brian Eno. The performer had both the fiasco of the musical The Capeman and a triumphant return to the world of popular music with the album Surprise. Simon claims that when writing songs, the motive is born in him before the words.

At the age of 76, the artist announced that he would stop his concert activity, but he did not exclude the possibility of episodic performances. In 2018, he released his 14th solo album, In The Blue Light, which contains new arrangements of old hits.

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In February 2020, on the artist's official website, words of farewell to the South African singer Joseph Shabalala, who died in Pretoria at the age of 79, and a joint picture with him appeared. The music of the "dark continent" inspired Paul to create the Graceland album. In 1989, the performers came to the USSR together and gave a concert in Moscow on the stage of the Green Theater in Gorky Park.

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