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Various Artists: The Rough Guide To Mali Blues

Tony Burke, Morning Star, 8 July 2019

THE CONNECTION between blues music and the African continent and how African slaves carried their music to the Americas has been well documented for almost a century, notably in Paul Oliver's groundbreaking book The Story of the Blues.

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