Ali Farka Toure' RIP

damn

he was a fine player
there's an especially nice record he made with Ry Cooder
can't think what it's called offhand though

talking timbuctoo

i really loved his radio mali album where he says something along the lines of 'these recordings were made when i was a fool for the guitar'

farka btw means donkey - he said he wanted to be the donkey no-one would climb on

sad news

That's a sad loss to music. Instantly recognisable guitar player.

If I wasn't going to see a load of high-speed Japanese madness tonight I would go down the (always desolately empty) Jubilee and pump coins into the jukebox (has one brilliant Ali Farka album) drink shitty guinness and play pool badly, if that could be said to be honouring the man.

RIP