THE READING ROOM: Ashley Khan’s ‘Days of Miracle and Wonder: Paul Simon and the Trials and Triumphs of Graceland’

Forty years ago, on August 25, 1986, Paul Simon released his seminal album, Graceland . On it, Simon collaborated with a number of South African musicians, including Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Vusi Kumalo, Bakithi Kumalo, and Ray Chikapa Phiri, among many others. As music historian Ashley Khan ( A Love Supreme ) points out