CD set, 21-night stand to chart the sounds of Simon

From: The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) | Date: September 26, 1993| Author: | Copyright information

Paul Simon's lifelong pursuit of music has taken him throughout the United States, from the Bronx to the bayou, and to the farflung lands of Jamaica, Africa, Brazil and Peru. Perhaps no other pop artist has been as determined to become a world music citizen, even if some critics charge that he's been almost haphazard in his globe-trotting.

"That's an amusing misperception," Simon said in a recent interview from his Montauk, N.Y., home. "People often ask me what country I'm going to next, as if I might suddenly show up in Thailand to play their music. But I didn't hear the music of Thailand ...

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