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Talking Timbuktu is a groundbreaking record that vividly illustrates the Africa-Blues connection in real time. Ali Farka Toure, one of Mali's leading singer-guitarists, has a trance-like, bluesy style that, although deeply rooted in Malian tradition, bears astonishing similarity to that of John Lee Hooker or even Canned Heat. It's a mono-chordal vamp, with repetitive song lines cut with shards of blistering solo runs that shimmer like a desert mirage. Toure may be conversant with some blues artists, but it is unlikely that artists like Hooker or Robert Pete Williams ever heard these Malian roots, which makes the connection so u
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Manufacturer: Hannibal
Release date: 29 March 1994
Number of discs: 1
EAN: 0031257138123 UPC: 312571381236
Release date: 29 March 1994
Number of discs: 1
EAN: 0031257138123 UPC: 312571381236
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