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Sample Track 1:
"Robert Plant & Justin Adams - Win My Train Fare Back Home" from Festival in the Desert
Sample Track 2:
"Takamba Super Onze - Super 11" from Festival in the Desert
Sample Track 3:
"Ali Farka Toure - Karaw" from Festival in the Desert
Sample Track 4:
"Oumou Sangare - Wayena" from Festival in the Desert
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Festival in the Desert
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CD Review in "Out There" column, by David Fricke
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This album was recorded in January at an extraordinary event in a most forbidding place: Festival in the Desert, three days of sun, scorpions, and North African song, held on a remote patch of the Sahara in upper Mali.  Much of the audience came by camel; many performers were men and women of the Tamashek tribe, local stars and descendents of a people who were present at the creation of the blues.  The music is alive with the ties binding past and possibility.  Field hollers and the late John Lee Hooker inhabit the timeless modal majesty of guitarist Ali Farka Toure and the modern surge of the Tamashek rock band Tinariwen, and Occidental guest Robert Plant takes his blues home, to Mississippi mud via spice caravan.   11/13/03
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