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Music Monday – “She makes the sign of a teaspoon/He makes the sign of a wave/The poor boy changes clothes/And puts on aftershave/To compensate for his ordinary shoes”

Reading a new book about the recording of Paul Simon’s “Graceland” and rediscovering an amazingly influential and controversial album:

“Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes” – Paul Simon and Ladysmith Black Mambazo

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