 Vieux Farka Touré (2007) [ larger cover art ] |
Share this song
Tweet this song
Wikipedia search
Musicbrainz DB;){kind=link}
(no lyrics available)
| michaelgmitchell (Stirling, ON) | Posted: May 05, 2013 - 06:47 fredriley wrote: So, who's Jimmy?  Fred, you kill me sometimes. Always healthy to get this kind of comment from time to time... (Song's okay, by the way.) |
| oldfart48 (boulder creek ca.) | Posted: Dec 30, 2012 - 23:54 yodasan_magoo wrote: Sorry, not interested. I find no redeeming qualities to this music. Ah, Dire Straits is up next, that will wash the bad taste out of my ears. THIS MUSIC PRECEEDS, AND IS THE ROOT OF THE BLUES, WHICH GAVE BIRTH TO ROCK. no intrest, no ear, heart or soul |
| oldfart48 (boulder creek ca.) | Posted: Dec 30, 2012 - 23:51 AS GOOD AS HIS FATHER. |
| midreaming | Posted: Sep 27, 2012 - 19:23 if i were in a space shuttle looking out the window at stars and earth rising, this would be a very nice thing to hear. it's pretty cool in my living room too. |
| CamLwalk (Albany NY) | Posted: Sep 27, 2012 - 19:22 Sounds Celtic. |
| Toke (Bournemouth UK) | Posted: Aug 27, 2012 - 06:57 fredriley wrote: So, who's Jimmy? I think its ''Good Job The Chimney Breast' '' Good Job The Chimney'' |
| TerryS (Another SW) | Posted: Jul 26, 2012 - 21:05 Best heard laying in a tent in Malawi with something tasting like rum inside my stomach. |
| dew34 (Wisconsin-quite woodsy) | Posted: May 24, 2012 - 14:23 Like A Lot  |
| yodasan_magoo (Close to the far side) | Posted: Nov 16, 2011 - 05:49 Sorry, not interested. I find no redeeming qualities to this music. Ah, Dire Straits is up next, that will wash the bad taste out of my ears. |
| Businessgypsy (Deepest, Darkest Florida) | Posted: May 30, 2011 - 04:14 A good son, keeping dad's loving memory alive. |
| fredriley (Nottingham, UK) | Posted: May 11, 2011 - 02:31 So, who's Jimmy? |
| Stingray (Where JULIAN is supported!) | Posted: Apr 28, 2011 - 15:06 psg wrote: As much as I like this, I just can't help but hearing a BBQ lighter clicking. What is that percussion (?) instrument? Two normal, avarage spoons! No, I am not kidding! |
| Stingray (Where JULIAN is supported!) | Posted: Apr 28, 2011 - 15:04 Good - but there are tons of better musicians in Mali. |
| kletzing (Munich) | Posted: Apr 09, 2011 - 12:09 Sau guat! |
| kletzing (Munich) | Posted: Apr 09, 2011 - 12:08 Sau guat! |
| Poacher (Brighton, UK) | Posted: Jan 05, 2011 - 09:09 dookie wrote: go to the source listen to his dad Sound advice. . . Ali Farka Toure brought me to Malian music like so many countless others. Well worth the effort to explore. But this is still a fine piece. |
| HazzeSwede (Vinyl Land) | Posted: Jan 05, 2011 - 09:06  |
| More_Cowbell (Northern IL) | Posted: Jan 05, 2011 - 09:05 who has the Gin yeah! I must be thirsty |
| sirdroseph (Yes) | Posted: Nov 22, 2010 - 05:21 AWESOME  |
| ziggytrix (Dallas, TX) | Posted: Aug 31, 2010 - 10:34 must be hungry. today i hear "i am i am a hamburger!" |
| AvoidingWork (Home of Big Boy #4004) | Posted: Jun 28, 2010 - 13:11 ziggytrix wrote: sounds Homore like "I YAM I YAM A HONDA GUY" to me HA! Awesome? Now I just wait for that line.  |
| ziggytrix (Dallas, TX) | Posted: May 27, 2010 - 17:19 Felix_The_Cat wrote: What? sounds more like "I YAM I YAM A HONDA GUY" to me |
| Segue (Almost Paradise) | Posted: Apr 26, 2010 - 00:27 same riff, upside down. tricky. |
| vandal (arriving somewhere, but not here. . .) | Posted: Apr 13, 2010 - 11:08 "oh yah, I got oxygen in me. . ."  |
| calypsus_1 | Posted: Mar 01, 2010 - 23:04 Vieux Farka Toure - "Ai du" Live: |
| psg (Ottawa) | Posted: Feb 09, 2010 - 07:26 As much as I like this, I just can't help but hearing a BBQ lighter clicking. What is that percussion (?) instrument? |
| gottech | Posted: Jan 21, 2010 - 09:55 More like Buddy Holly than I ever imagined. Nice. |
| Felix_The_Cat (Buenos Aires, Argentina) | Posted: Jan 21, 2010 - 09:54 a_genuine_find wrote: That's funny, I am a Honda Car too ... What? |
| a_genuine_find (not me, Radio P) (3rd stone, sol, orion belt, milkyway) | Posted: Jan 21, 2010 - 09:49 That's funny, I am a Honda Car too ... |
| lophrequa (the very edge of the land) | Posted: Dec 08, 2009 - 12:12 paulmack wrote: Your open-mindedness is so refreshing. Better not every leave the country - kinda different elsewhere. I guess you could venture to England. And Australia. They're not so scary. dude was making a joke |
| paulmack (the hissing swamps) | Posted: Dec 08, 2009 - 12:04 weez wrote: I'm wondering if he's spinning it in the right direction. Maybe if you play it the other way it will sound correct and you'll hear secret messages. (jk - cool tune) Your open-mindedness is so refreshing. Better not every leave the country - kinda different elsewhere. I guess you could venture to England. And Australia. They're not so scary. |
| weez (Lexington, KY) | Posted: Dec 08, 2009 - 12:00 Wizzuvv_oz wrote: I always like when Bill spins in this direction. I'm wondering if he's spinning it in the right direction. Maybe if you play it the other way it will sound correct and you'll hear secret messages. (jk - cool tune) |
| flatpicker (Toronto, Canada) | Posted: Oct 06, 2009 - 13:44 Great song from a very good album. I have many Ali Farka Toure albums, so I was excited when Vieux came on the scene. I was lucky enough to attend a very small, intimate concert by Vieux Farka Toure in Toronto. He was even better live. He really turned it up a notch... much more electric, and a bit funkier. |
| dookie (Dallas) | Posted: Oct 06, 2009 - 13:42 go to the source listen to his dad |
| Felix_The_Cat (Buenos Aires, Argentina) | Posted: Sep 17, 2009 - 13:42 good lord this is sooo goood |
| Blip (on the radar) | Posted: Sep 17, 2009 - 13:33 There is something about folk music that appeals to the heart! Love this! |
| FlatCat (Chicago) | Posted: Aug 04, 2009 - 13:10 Interesting how a few voices singing in unison can have as much or more richness as some harmonies. My first intro to African music was hearing Missa Luba back in the mid-60's on WCLV Saturday Night. A whole new world. |
| DavidS_UK (Central England, UK) | Posted: May 01, 2009 - 07:52 Well I've been to very few cities that didn't have an "Irish" pub, even in China! (Not always run by an irishman though). Please - more world music and less warbling caucasian women like Krauss et al. |
| Wizzuvvoz (Land of Nod. East of Eden on Route 66.) | Posted: May 01, 2009 - 07:52 Limpopoking wrote: you either like this or you don't... I like this!... a lot! I always like when Bill spins in this direction. So nice to hear African harmonies that aren't Lady Blacksmith Mambazo (is that right? I like them too but overplayed) |
| philbertr (Hurricane Target Florida) | Posted: Feb 27, 2009 - 06:22 keller1 wrote: Ironic you should mention AfroCelts ... I was just thinking what a short musical distance it is from this to the Celtic stuff. I've been wondering, ever since first hearing AfroCelts, about the similarities between African and Celtic music. Could there have been some contacts that aren't recorded in our histories? |
| Limpopoking (Limpopo) | Posted: Dec 26, 2008 - 01:46 you either like this or you don't... I like this!... a lot! |
| handyrae (Zero Point Field) | Posted: Nov 24, 2008 - 11:30 Shesdifferent wrote: Too Earth bound. Too earth bound? Surely you jest. |
| big_gare (Cloverdale, BeeCee, Canada) | Posted: Nov 24, 2008 - 11:28 Pointing at the Chimney - I'm pointing at the chimney... |
| calypsus_1 | Posted: Oct 04, 2008 - 19:33 no comment - 7. |
| Patnet (White African in Clogsville) | Posted: Sep 22, 2008 - 06:52 Ha, recognised this without really listening. Excellent work Bill and Rebecca for giving us a real broad spectrum of good music. |
| keller1 (In A Gadda Da Vida, Baby) | Posted: Sep 22, 2008 - 06:52 thewiseking wrote: nice. much prefer to hear interesting music from around the world as opposed to fusion crap (AfroCelts) or predigested pop-artist collaborations (Paul Simon or Peter Gabriel) Ironic you should mention AfroCelts ... I was just thinking what a short musical distance it is from this to the Celtic stuff. BTW, couldn't disagree more about AfroCelts —- most of their CDs are good from beginning to end. And best of all, they're not Radiohead! |
| Hannio (Austin, TX) | Posted: Sep 19, 2008 - 06:03 Love this. |
| UltraNurd (Boston, MA) | Posted: Jul 14, 2008 - 11:12 From my sister who is in Mali: "farka" is the Koryaboro (Sonrai/Songhay/Songhai) word for "donkey". It's a superstition among the Songhai that if you give a child an "ugly" name, they're more likely to survive to adulthood (conversely, giving a child your own name is prideful and therefore inviting something unfortunate). It's fairly likely that Ali Farka Toure's father lost at least a few of Ali's older siblings as infants or young children, and so picked the name to help guarantee his growing up. Edit: spelled things wrong. |
| Shesdifferent (Just visiting this planet waiting for the ticket home) | Posted: Jul 14, 2008 - 11:08 Eclectic-OK...but not for me. Too Earth bound. |
| Welly | Posted: Jul 14, 2008 - 11:07 Makes a nice change! |