Talkin' Blues: Ali Farka Toure Dropping Bombs of Knowledge

...I'm just cuttin' in the crib tonight and taking it easy, for the past hour I've been checking tunes from Talking Timbuktu, one of my favorite blues LPs by the late, great Malian guitarist Ali Farka Toure...I grew up in the Southeast and the blues have always held a special place in my heart because of it for whatever reason but that's niether here nor there...a month-and-change ago thecandymanlives threw up a post "*about race in music*":http://mog.com/thecandymanlives/blog_post/17185 and it spoke about the climate in the music biz and the lack of diversity/ opportunities for black artists therein...even more recently, the topic was tangentially touched upon in "*Jess' post on sex in music*":http://mog.com/Jess_Horrible/blog_post/30851 ...l...istening to this LP and reading the credits lets me know that although the music biz isn't everything we'd love it to be (and that's not conjecture, as I work in it on a daily basis) collaborative offerings like this LP, that yield so much great tunage brings a smile to my face because it lets me know that there are still people out there getting together (across color lines) and making it happen-- on the Talking album theres a pastiche of nationalities performing on the instruments (Ry Cooder, Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown, John Patitucci, Jim Keltner, Oumar Toure and Hamma Sankare) and even though Ali sang in 11 different languages you'll still feel where he's coming from...beautiful...I found this clip of him talking about his thoughts and it seemed to point to what those other posts I'd mentioned were going...peep the clip below and most definitely "*check the LP*":http://www.thestore24.com/Music/Album.aspx?p_id=P+++++3459&a_id=R+++199948&PersonID=P%20%20%20%20%203459&prodid=HAN571381.2&si=rhino when you can...