Paul Simon - Ace in the Hole (Live)

If you want to buy this song or album: Paul Simon - Ace In The Hole, taken from the 1980 movie One-Trick Pony. Recorded live at the Agora Theatre and Ballroom in 1979. Paul Simon’s One-Trick Pony is a morose little art film about a minor Sixties pop star, Jonah Levin, who blows his only chance for a comeback by refusing to let a hack producer (played knowingly by Lou Reed) “commercialize“ him. This moody, downbeat film is part road movie and part tribute to the Woody Allen school of Manhattan angst. Yet at its center is a question that Allen wouldn’t dream of asking: Is the pop life just for kids? After Jonah’s estranged wife contemptuously suggests that he’s too old at thirty-four to want to be Elvis Presley, the singer meekly defends his commitment to music by retorting, “It’s what I do.“ One-Trick Pony’s soundtrack album explains exactly what Jonah Levin-Paul Simon does, and its ten songs carefully weigh the pros