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Going Home: Baaba Maal Returns To The Roots Of His Music

j. poet, SF Gate, 10 August 2001

WHEN BAABA MAAL comes to the Fillmore on Saturday, August 11, Bay Area audiences will get to hear a voice that is one of the wonders of the modern world: His expansive, slightly nasal tenor slides through the thundering reverberations of his 12-man Dande Lenol (Voice of the People) band with the ease of a hot knife slicing butter.

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