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Taj Mahal / Toumani Diabate – Mississippi Mali Blues

Kulanjan, Hannibal Records 2000. Taj Mahal – vocals, guitar; Toumani Diabate – kora; Bassekou Kouyate – ngoni, bass ngoni; Dougouye Koulibaly – kamalengoni; Lasana Diabate – balafon; also with Kassemady Diabate – vocals; Ballake Sissoko – kora; on other tracks. Like the 1997 release Sacred Island, Kulanjan sees Taj Mahal blending the blues with ethnic folk music. While the earlier album explored the music of Hawaii, however, here Taj and the Malian kora player Toumani Diabate seek to reveal the connections between the blues and the music of Western Mali. (…) The Malian cuts sound, perhaps only to this untrained ear, mostly like straight West-African folk music. Connections between the two traditions are still apparent here, however. “Fanta” takes the Malian tradition of the praise song and renders it as an infectious Cajun blues, sung in French by Taj and dedicated to Diabate’s wife. And “Guede Man Na”, although a million miles from the blues in form, has the heartfelt sadness of great blues music. Ultimately, though, deciding which of the album’s tracks can be termed as ‘blues’ and which are ‘Malian’ is a fairly pointless exercise. Taj and Diabate effortlessly fuse elements of both musics, and in Kulanjan they have produced a superb release that succeeds on its own terms. (Ronan Abayawickrema/All About Jazz review) Buy this record!

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Marvin Gaye on piano in Belgium – Come Get To This, Distant Lover

Born in 1939 in DC to a father from Kentucky and a mother from North Carolina, Marvin Gaye blazed the trail for the continued evolution of popular black music. But by the winter of 1981, Marvin Gaye was in a personal and professional doldrums. Weakened by a debilitating drug problem, an increasing debt to the IRS, two failed marriages and losing his homes, cars and recording studio, Marvin had moved away from the continental United States by 1979 first settling in a bread van in Hawaii. In 1980, he settled in London and fortook on a European tour with British promoter Jeffrey Kruger. Settling in Oostende, Belgium thanks to an offer by boxing promoter Freddy Couseart, the singer began sobering up from years of drug abuse cutting usage of marijuana and cocaine while working out in an ancient gym and jogging daily at the beaches in Ostend. By the summer of 1981, the 42-year-old Gaye decided to launch a tour of Europe again around areas of London – where he was received more favorably than the previous year’s embarrassing no-show for Princess Margaret – and areas of Belgium. Afterwards, Marvin was inspired to get back in the studio to record his final album in Belgium “Come Get to This” is a 1973 hit for American soul singer Marvin Gaye, released on the Tamla (Motown) label. The song, released a few months after his seminal anthem of seduction, “Let’s Get It On”, was built among a fast-paced doo-wop-like recording. This record was one of few recordings Gaye began recording …

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OLD BLIND BARNABAS ~ Jackson Holly

OLD BLIND BARNABAS ~ I learned this tune from the GOLDEN GATE QUARTET from a 10″ LP from the late 1940s back in the 1970s. Johnny Horton also did a version based on their interpretation. I have used mostly old paintings in the public domain to illustrate, plus this terrific photograph from the Wikimedia Commons: commons.wikimedia.org en.wikipedia.org ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ BTW, I have had an eBay business since 1998 … I sell old VINYL and occasional movies and CDs and other media. I also sell VINTAGE CLOTHING … Cowboy, Hawaii/Surfer, Biker, Hippie, Rocker & Rockabilly… etc. Check it out! Name is WAX POETIC: stores.ebay.com

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Hawaii Five-o Theme Song Sample Beat

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Seemannslied lap steel hawaii gitarre – framat

Hello dear internet audience, this is me playing lap steel or Hawaiigitarre like we used to say in Germany. I took an old german sailor song (Seemannslied) or german folk song & re-arranged it into something of my own. The originally song was “Wir lagen vor Madagaskar”, it was written about 100 years ago and is still well-known in Germany – even if some people might not recognize it anymore but that is all right with me 🙂 I hope you enjoy this 1-minute-clip. Best regards Framat