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Hey, must be nice to be listening to music at this time on the afternoon...
Friday Night Is Killing Me - Bash & Pop
Well Mrs. P if you had looked at the time it was at 7:50 AM today not recently.So go back to work somebody has to bring home some cash........Mr. P
Much has been made of the symbiosis between traditional Malian and roots North American musics, of which the "desert blues" of guitarist Ali Farka Toure (1939-2006) provides convincing evidence. Any remaining doubts about west African savannah-belt culture as a primary source of blues, country and rock'n'roll styles are blown out of the water by I Speak Fula, the truly awesome second album from the ngoni player Bassekou Kouyate and his band, Ngoni Ba ("big ngoni").Kouyate was a collaborator of Toure's, and played an important role in the guitarist's outstanding Savane (World Circuit, 2006). But Ngoni Ba's first album, Segu Blue (Out/Here, 2007), gave little hint of the two-way Atlantic traffic which shapes its follow-up. The debut was, instead, a beautifully crafted archive recording, produced by Kouyate's longtime friend and Malian music scholar, Lucy Duran, which focused on acoustic ritual and social ngoni music, unmediated by overseas echoes or influences....http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=35422
