The Lobi Traore Group

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  Wat zullen we nu weer eens draaien......

  Pieter

  30-09-2024

  The listed album is an alternative for the Lobi Traoré – Mali Blue cd on DixieFrog Records 2004 (http://www.discogs.com/release/4227220)

  "This compilation brings together 14 of the best tracks from those recordings, revealing the guitarist to be the most potent, funkiest, down-and-dirtiest African bluesman of them all." (Somglines August/September 2024 Hidden Treasures) "1961-2010 Lobi Traoré came from a quite different tradition of Malian music to the trained caste of griots, raised from birth to become storytellers and musicians. Lobi was pure ‘street’ – a working-class singer and guitarist who scuffled for gigs in the bars of Bamako, an African counterpart to the itinerant bluesmen in the juke joints of pre-war Mississippi or on the streets of Memphis. It was a quality reflected in his music, a raw and dirty sound. Born in the village of Bakaridianna, on the Niger River close to Ségou, he moved to Bamako in the 80s and joined the Djata Band prior to launching a solo career. His debut album Bambara Blues appeared in 1991 before he came to the attention of a wider international audience on his 1994 album Bamako, produced by Ali Farka Touré. He released a number of other albums steeped in his own unique, grittily blue-collar take on the Bambara blues." (Songlines August/September 2010 Obituaries)