Live and direct from Mali, a land where music and rhythm run in the veins of the natives, comes Boubacar Traoré. The guitarist plays a traditional finger-picking style that may well be the original blues, passed down from generation to generation by jeli men, aka griots, the keepers of cultural history. The critically acclaimed Traoré, whose influences include Arabian and Afro-Cuban music as well as the Khassonke styles of northern Mali, has been compared to both Ali Farka Toure and Robert Johnson -- high praise indeed -- and though he's much more famous in his native land than here, that may all change with the release of his new World Village album, Kongo Magni. Traoré comes to Yoshi's (510 Embarcadero West, Oakland) Monday night for two shows that promise to be acoustically infectious. $10-$16; Yoshis.com -- Eric K. Arnold