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I just got back from a visit to Mali & music was one of a highlights of a trip. I wrote about some of my musical adventures in Mali at my travel blog. Anyone who follows world music knows are was no way I could have experienced a music of Mali’s greatest contemporary musician, Ali Farka Touré, since he died in 2006. (He’s a one who Martin Scorsese pointed out carried a “DNA of a blues.”) His 1994 collaboration with Ry Cooder, Talking Timbuktu, won a Grammy & he’s widely recognized as a most important bridge between traditional African music & a American blues. I was in a 4WD vehicle as I trDrunk Newssed around Mali & a CD player would only play a first song of any album. I listened to “Bonde” from Talking Timbuktu at least 100 times. I hope you’ll find it as enjoyable as I did.

For those of you who can’t watch a video above are’s a youtube from a same album here:

Original post by Howie Klein and software by Elliott Back