Subject: Ali Farka Toure

• ZZ Top Returns for Your "Tush"

  October 31, 2007

• Mali Music

  Mali Music (Astralwerks)

  August 28, 2002

• Various Artists

  Africa Raps: Senegal, Mali, and the Gambia (Trikont)

  July 10, 2002

• There's a Griot Goin' On

  September 5, 2001

• East Meets Fest

  April 25, 2001

• Boubacar Traore

  Macire (Indigo)

  October 11, 2000

• Six Degrees Announces New Vieux Farka Toure Album

  Laura WilliamsAfrican Blues: Vieux Farka Toure SF's esteemed world music label Six Degrees have added to their already enviable track record (which includes Bebel Gilberto, Bossacucanova, Alice Russell, and Cheb I Sabbah) with Fondo, the latest album from Malian guitarist Vieux Farka Toure. The album, which drops May 26, is a stunning display of traditional African folk music blended with a bit of blues-rock. Though obviously inspired by his late father, the legendary Ali Farka Toure, Fondo fin

  May 12, 2009

• My Big Fat World Music Weekend

  EKAphotographyRoom with a Vieux: Vieux Farka Toure In this economy, who has the means to travel internationally anymore? Luckily, with all the world music acts coming through the Bay Area of late, you don't have to have a passport, visa, hotel, and plane ticket to catch some of the most scintillating global groovesters around. For example, last week I went to France, and this past weekend, I traveled to Mexico, Mali, and Brazil (twice). And I didn't even have to leave the 7x7 square miles of th

  July 20, 2009