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Sidi Touré

Vocalist, songwriter, and guitarist Sidi Touré is somewhat popular in his local Mali as very much for his family’s name and royal lineage for his music. Touré, very much like fellow countryman Ali Farka Touré (though he’s from Gao, not really Bamako), plays a genuine droning sort of songhai blues. …

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