Khruangbin, Vieux Farka Tour Ali

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• Ali Farka Toure is well known as one of the most influential and talented guitarists that Africa has ever produced. His legacy and impact are hard to overstate. Alis sound merged his much-loved traditional Malian musical styles with distinct elements of the blues, singing in the local languages of Fulfulde, Tamasheq, Songhay and Bambara. The result was the creation of a groundbreaking new genre, now well known as the desert blues, earning him three Grammy awards, widespread reverence and the nickname of the African John Lee Hooker.
  Though he transcended in 2006, Alis musical legacy lives on through his son, Vieux Farka Tour aka the Hendrix of the Sahara, an accomplished guitarist and champion of Malian music in his own right. On Ali, his collaborative album with Khruangbin, Vieux pays homage to his father by recreating some of hi