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Ali Farka Toure - Penda Yoro
Here's a brilliant slice of West African blues from the late Malian guitarist and singer Ali Farka Toure. Penda Yoro is taken from his final album, the posthumously released Savane. The sharp fluidity of the guitar as it rolls through the song is a real delight. It's unfussed and joyful.
While Toure was undoubtedly a great musician, it seems he didn't much enjoy the celebrity that his music brought him. In his later years he preferred life on his rice farm to life on the road or in a recording studio. It's for this reason that his final songs are such rare treasures. He knew that he was dying of bone cancer, but perhaps wanted to give the world one last thing to remember him by.
Ali Farka Toure - Penda Yoro
(alternate download)
Here's a brilliant slice of West African blues from the late Malian guitarist and singer Ali Farka Toure. Penda Yoro is taken from his final album, the posthumously released Savane. The sharp fluidity of the guitar as it rolls through the song is a real delight. It's unfussed and joyful.
While Toure was undoubtedly a great musician, it seems he didn't much enjoy the celebrity that his music brought him. In his later years he preferred life on his rice farm to life on the road or in a recording studio. It's for this reason that his final songs are such rare treasures. He knew that he was dying of bone cancer, but perhaps wanted to give the world one last thing to remember him by.
Ali Farka Toure - Penda Yoro
(alternate download)
