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intro Take this Hammer (Solid Gone) Catfish Blues Kulanjan Andy Kershaw " " Ol' Georgie Buck Atlanta Kaira Andy Kershaw

Taj Mahal (guitar, dobro, vocals) Toumani Diabate (kora) Bassekou Kouyate (ngoni) Kasse Mady Diabate (vocals) Djeneba Seck (vocals) ? other instruments * sorry, this version doesn't have lineage notes although I think this seeder captured this from the re-broadcast. it appears from etree that there are 2 versions in circulation, one that dates back to stg, was seeded in flac, and included interview segments. this version is the one that was entered into the db first. this kershaw session was later re-broadcast, without interview segments, and instead of circulating as 11 11 99 was listed as 11 9 99. my guess is the person who seeded this captured the rebroadcast but failed to mention lineage :( the date is made clear during the radio talk, it appears to really be 11 9 99 (i doubt he's forget or confuse his birthdate) Notes: Taj Mahal with kora master Toumani Diabate and singers from Mali, in support of the CD Kulanjan (Hannibal, 1999). CD Review: Perennial blues road warrior Taj Mahal and Malian kora (harp-lute) ambassador Toumani Diabate join forces, blend textures, and intermingle idioms on this cleanly produced 12-song set, recorded in 1998 in Athens. Their common ground is best tilled on "Atlanta Kaira" and the title track, where the plucky filigrees and glittering tone of the kora sound right at home with Taj's darker, barking National Reso-Phonic steel. "Ol' Georgie Buck" and their canny cover of Muddy Waters's "Catfish Blues" are the album's blues banners, which find Diabate's kora delightfully incongruous, while the walking African ballad "Tunkaranke" leans most heavily toward the motherland. Fleshed out with fine vocals by Taj, Kasse Mady Diabate, and Malian chanteuse Ramata Diakate ("Queen Bee"), and other African instruments, the sound is defiantly acoustic, intimate, and surprisingly true. --James Rotondi

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Take This Hammer Interview Catfish Blues Interview Kulanjan Talk Ol' Georgie Buck Talk Atlanta Kaira

Taj Mahal (guitar, dobro, vocals) Toumani Diabate (kora) Bassekou Kouyate (ngoni) Kassemady Diabate (vocals) Djeneba Seck (vocals) ? other instruments Notes: Taj Mahal with kora master Toumani Diabate and singers from Mali, in support of the CD Kulanjan (Hannibal, 1999).

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