DALLAS — 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, New York, and his Dallas-born wife, singer 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.”
