Ali Farka Toure

Ali Farka Touré

Interview by Don Snowden, Escape, April 1994

THE 18-WEEK run atop the Billboard World Music charts enjoyed by Ali Farka Touré's album The Source added the sweet touch of popular success in ...

Connections: Ali Farka Touré's Cross-Cultural Blues

Profile by Ted Drozdowski, Boston Phoenix, July 2000

THE BLUES CAME to America in chains, contained within the hearts of the enslaved people of Africa. Two hundred odd years later it went back, ...