But there is something quietly powerful about the his guitar playing and the sound of the vocals nonetheless. Touré sings in Malian languages like Peul (or Fula) and Tamasheck, which I obviously don't understand. Suffice it to say that along with Amadou and Mariam, my Malian blues CDs have gotten a lot of play in my house. It is dangerous to make any big pronouncement about Touré's music, especially since I have only two albums, Talking Timbuktu and Radio Mali. Ali Farka Touré died this past weekend, at the (approximate) age of 67.
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