Paul Simon Tells the Story of "Graceland"

By the release of Paul Simon's 1986 album Graceland, the two-time Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Inductee had covered a lot of musical territory, from his early days of pop rock as Tom & Jerry to the transcendent dynamism born from the folk idiom of Simon & Garfunkel to more than a decade of solo recordings that demonstrated a remarkable assemblage of lyrical acuity, impeccable musicianship and stylistic daring. Some cynics viewed the arguably career-reviving Graceland as imperialist exploitation of...