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"Ana" from Vieux Farka Touré
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"Ma Hine Cocore" from Vieux Farka Touré
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-by Melena Ryzik

Ali Farka Touré, the influential Malian guitar god and blues-lover who died last year, didn’t want his children following in his musical footsteps; he preferred them to stay close to their local roots. So when Vieux Farka Touré took up his daddy’s instrument, he did it secretly. Luckily his father was forgiving, and now the family legacy lives on. The younger Touré “has picked up on many of his lessons,” Ben Ratliff wrote of his New York debut this winter. But the son’s arrangements are more modern, “chugging, up-tempo, two-beat music, like hard-driving Chicago blues without the blues chord changes.” Catch the next-gen Malian superstar tonight at the Highline Ballroom. 08/01/07 >> go there
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