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The Ry Cooder album is like a world-class act performed onstage. Toure is great on the guitar and the drums are really good.
Try it, you'll like it. Too bad I don't understand the words.
If you like world music, you will find interesting rhythms on slightly unfamiliar-sounding instruments, and a singing style I find often in African music--more highly pitched than western singers mostly, similar to a chant sometime but not so drawn out and more interesting to listen to. Toure sometimes uses a similar type of dragging rhythm, but Toure has many rhythms in his lexicon.
After listening to the Amazon snippets, I couldn't decide whether to buy this CD or the one with Ry Cooder, so I got both and I'm glad I did; they are very different and both worth having. This one is like a bar in west Africa with a few musicians making good music for a small crowd of appreciative listeners.
Comparisons to John Lee Hooker are over-emphasized.
Not that the party would then fall asleep or anything, such kind of lie restfully, enraptured, dreaming lucid dreams staring at the ceiling. His best in my opinion, and who would contradict me. This bad boy rocks the party, not in a violent, infantile way, but in a gentle, solicitous, cradle swaying manner. Guitarisms are sublime throughout, sounding incredibly full for such sparse arrangements.
Ali's voice and guitar cut straight to the soul. As stated in the editorial review, it is bare bones acoustic. It is a classic that belongs in every collection. I've owned the CD for nine years, and it has always stayed close to me. This is to my mind the best album available of Toure's music. He is accompanied by sparse but tasteful percussion.I recommend this above the Talking Timbuktu album.
This is an excellent collection of mellow African blues,nothing is too complicated in this music - really simple, organic sounds with beautiful rythems and wonderful guitar playing.I would recommend Toure to any serious music fan, and this is my personal favourite out of all his albums.
learned the blues the same way Eric Clapton did.I hope this inspires listeners to read ethnomusicologists research on the origin of the blues. It ain't. Talk to any bluesmen who have gone to Africa, such as Buddy Guy. A.F.T. Ali Farka Toure best remains Talking Timbuktu, but this one is definitely worth having.For some reason, A.F.T. is flacked as if his music is the source of the blues. There is a lot of conning going on.
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