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Ali Farka Touré & Ry Cooder
Talking Timbuktu (180g Double LP) [ BMG / ADA / 2 LP - released 29/Mar/1994 ] This remarkable album has Touré singing in 11 languages, playing acoustic and electric guitar, six-string banjo, njarka, and percussion instruments. |
Keith LeBlanc
Chessmoves: Future Blues [ Chess Records Corp. / Universal-Island Records Ltd. / CD - released 6/Oct/2008 ] For 'Chessmoves' Keith Leblanc picked out and retrofitted a few raw nuggets of primal, hollerin' and howlin' blues. He was helped along the way by Doug Wimbush & Skip "Little Axe" McDonald. |
Ali Farka Touré
Niafunke [ BMG / ADA / CD - released 21/Jun/1999 ] Ali Farka Touré is widely recognised as one of World music's legendary artists, commonly compared to American Blues greats Robert John Johnson, John Lee Hooker and Big Joe Williams. Niafunke is Ali Farka Touré's first new album in five years and... |
Tony Allen
Secret Agent [ BMG / ADA / CD - released 27/Jul/2009 ] 'Secret Agent' is Tony Allen's debut album for World Circuit. Self-produced, this majestic slice of hardcore funky Afrobeat was recorded in Lagos, Paris & London, using his regular hard-drilled touring band with full horn section. |
Little Axe
If You Want Loyalty Buy a Dog [ On-U Sound / CD - released 24/Oct/2011 ] From start to finish this is a dynamic and uncompromising meeting of both forms of roots music; reggae and blues. Immaculately played and defined as never before. |
Nuru Kane
Sigil [ Riverboat / CD - released 25/Feb/2008 ] This album captrues Nuru's range of influences, from his blues-led solo songs, reminiscent of Ali Farka Toure, through to the driving gnawa trance that forms the backbone of his pulsating live performances. |
Watermelon Slim & The Workers
Escape From the Chicken Coop [ Northern Blues / CD - released 4/Aug/2009 ] Bill Homans (A.K.A. "Watermelon Slim") is one of the most intriguing bluesmen out there, and 'Escape from the Chicken Coop' features some of the best musicians in Nashville. |