I like Ali Farka Touré‘s (RIP) 2006 album “Savane“. I first listened to it when I realized it was, according to Metacritic, the most critically acclaimed album of 2006. It’s a nice gift too – it even ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. African multi-instrumentalist Ali Farka Touré had become a legend by the time he died in 2006. His music was used in a song for ...

Khruangbin is collaborating with Vieux Farka Touré to honor the latter’s late father, Malian guitarist, Ali Farka Touré. Their upcoming joint album, called Ali, will recreate the legendary namesake ...

Khruangbin and Vieux Farka Touré have announced a new collaborative album. Ali is in honor of Vieux’s late father Ali Farka Touré; the artists recreate and pay homage to his work across the new album.

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. But Vieux is no mere shadow of his father. In fact, Ali initially discouraged him ...

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I first heard Ali Farka Touré perform at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival in 1994. At that time many North American audiences were beginning to learn about the man and his music, often ...

NPR's Shannon Bond talks with Malian guitarist Vieux Farka Toure, known as "the Hendrix of the Sahara," about his new album. One of the leading exports from the landlocked West African country of Mali ...

The link between Africa and America, i.e. whether there is still a surviving link that exists from the period of the slave trade, has been a subject of numerous explorations, assumptions, projects, ...