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eita guitarrista!!- e banjoman(?)!! Salaamalekum! 

Ali Farka Touré live at Segou festival, Mali - with Bassekou Kouyate - Feb 2005

- un peu comme Jimi Hendrix , Dire Straits ? - John Lee Hooker, they say .. e as coisas q eu aprendo c/ estas postagens!

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um comentário muito bonito no YT:  «Blues at its finest. Not Delta blues, Memphis blues, African blues, but Blues, period!!! No labels, please. Blues are and exist where heavy hearts and weary souls forged in hard love reside. From the Americas to Africa and beyond. As a native southerner I should know. This man is a master. Viv la Ali Farka Touré! Barakallah!» 

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What made Toure stand out from the crowd was his mixture of these two elements, a blues-based singing style close to John Lee Hooker and a particularly African choice of subject matter, often rooted in West African myth and folktale. (...)  Toure performs most often unaccompanied, relying entirely on the magnetism of his beautiful voice and the counterpoint of his rhythmic guitar.

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e, em 8/3/2006, no jornal Público:
Morreu Ali Farka Touré, o agricultor que criava blues no Mali

A data de nascimento de Ali Farka Touré pode não ser consensual, mas a data da sua morte é, desde ontem, certa: 7 de Março de 2006. Causa: cancro. O cantor e multi-instrumentista morreu durante o sono na sua casa de Bamaco, capital do Mali, onde a África do Islão se encontra com a África negra.  (ler mais)

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