Master Guitarist of The Sahara: Ali Farka Touré

Man you’re really making videos on all the right music. Tropicalia, Zamrock, electro, Ali Farka Touré. Great stuff.

He was there since the 70s though

I can’t thank you enough for this piece on a player who changed my ears. He’s a master musician that too many still don’t know of

Without a doubt the Talking Timbuktu album is one of the most underrated albums of all time

Fodeiba keita is pretty 😍

Been listening to him for a few years now. Really love that guitar tone. 😊

Thanks for exposing me to this story.

Not sahara Tenere which means Desert in African langaue , and Imuzagh not touareg please.

This is the most beautiful music in the world I think

A few years back I had the immense pleasure and honor to work with this man and his band when they came to Charleston South Carolina to a little club called the pour House I was a volunteer sound engineer at the time learning to use their system and my very first show was running sound and production for Ali, He and his band were very gracious and very kind and patient with me as I had never seen half of the instruments they were bringing to the stage and in his infinite wisdom and patience taught me everything I needed to know to make his music sound proper. I will never forget this experience!

Fantastic! One note: "hillbilly music" is called Old-Time or Bluegrass but certainly never as hillbilly music. It's seen as pretty offensive to call it that

Great video! Very educational and enlightening. Vieux Farka Toure recently played near me in Woodstock, New York

One of my friends from La Guineé told me that the guitar is the devil's instrument. He said most African guitarists use the African juju- vodoo to get to master and play the guitar. A guitarist who washed his guitar with juju should not anyone play his guitar except he himself…..

We all need to watch The Rhythmatist, a film by Stewart Copeland.

Home of blues

As usual, I love your videos.

Merci 🙏 depuis le Mali 🇲🇱

Amazing video. One of the most underrated styles.

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I’ve been enjoying Tara N-Tiniri quite a bit recently

Are you Ray Romano ? 😆
On a serious note though, classifying his music as North African is debatable, not totally wrong nor fully accurate. The Sahara is the natural frontier that separates North Africa from the rest of Africa and Niafunke being in the South of that frontier, we could classify him more as West African than North African. And usually North Africa includes countries on the Southern shores of the Mediterranean and do not include Mali or Niger. Furthermore, the Songhai culture itself (of which his culture is a subgroup) is present mostly in West Africa (from Mali to Benin and to a lesser extent to Nigeria).
That doesn't take away the fact that he grew up in a region that's a real cutural melting pot, being peopled by a large Tuareg population which is Berber.

West Africa really is the wellhead of all popular music throughout the world.