Ali Farka Touré with Ry Cooder - Goye Kur

[MakhtalDaahir]

He looks like Obama's father when smiling!!! I thought it was Obama's father playing music.

[beeroosterm]

Just revisiting this video to see if I've changed my mind. Nope - still sucks. Hard.

[ThBigEZsCadillacJack]

The 1994 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival in Congo Square before he moved on to the Ray Ban stage. A good friend of mine was there and is in the crowd watching this performance.

[bluesintheblood]

WHERE IS THE REST of this?!?!?!?

[Iwebender]

@bluesintheblood Wish I knew. If anyone has the rest of this and/or Ry's set with David Lindley, please share.

[katapultirana]

those policeman are great :)

[MariaMagdalena071]

PLEASE - watch THIS too - it's great ! Ali Farka Touré - Amandrai live at Segou Festival

[f49218]

waaw

[ryreinhardt]

Why the great Ry would want to play such crappy music with people , who can barely is a mystery to me ..... I think he lost his marbles during this time......this boring shit.

Long live the chicken skin reveue......man those guys could play

[mink61]

@ryreinhardt 'The great Ry' clearly disagrees with you; is everyone that has an opinion that differs from yours not in posession of their marbles? Maybe you're the bore.

[ryreinhardt]

@ryreinhardt

Well if you think that stuff is good - you are extremely tasteless ....obviously Ry is doing his bit to help third world fourth rate "musicians"

[Broblem12]

Funky music is always welcome. Music to move and groove by is damn important. Thank you!!!

[pauliebyrner23]

this is groovy music. cant help moving to it real feel good class :)

[norsefly1]

@beeroosterm you're very self-righteous. give others a thought. leftysergeant is right. it comes from africa. @leftysergeant

[strigoiul]

YEAH! 2:04 I love it...

[Andyfme]

This guy is a shit guitar player! He has got some front being on the same stage as Ry Cooder

[smbazi]

@Andyfme Ry is the one on stage with him

[jonoroberts35]

@Andyfme You clearly have shit in your ears buddy. You apparently wouldn't know good playing if it kicked you in the head.

[leftysergeant]

@Andyfme You have no taste or talent that anybody can detect, so stuff it.

[jrpear51]

nah, not indian tho some of the sounds recall the country/region/subcontinent ...the backbone seems more african....anyway, nice music.....thanks

[hamsterdj78]

This is what should be a great music

[beeroosterm]

This song sucks. Hard. Unless you're tripping. Sounds all Indian...

[shjakes]

@beeroosterm ah my friend, you have shown the world your limited exposure to culture. Its not too late, subscribe to "National Geographic" for starters...there is hope for you yet!

[beeroosterm]

@shjakes Bullkshit - I've been all around the world. This is boring - and so is NG. Besides, these guys are ripping off John Lee Hooker anyway...

[shjakes]

@beeroosterm How did you travel? In first class, or on a cruise ship? You continue to show the limitation of your mind. Read the Bio of every White Rock artist (of repute that is) and they all have one thing in common...they were ALL inspired by the Blues artists. And where did the Blues come from?...I'll leave you to figure it out. You must try using your computer for constructive puposes sometimes.....ever heard of Wikipedia? ( I figure you don't know what they inside of a library looks like.)

[beeroosterm]

@shjakes Fuck you, you condescending, pedantic racist nigger! What a load a shit your rap is! Ali Farke Toure was as derivative as anybody when it came to playing blues guitar. And by the way - he was boring as hell...

[shjakes]

@beeroosterm ...It was just a matter of time and I proved my point. I will not stoop to your low level of ignorance my dear...after all you will beat me up with "EXPERIENCE IN IGNORANCE!!"

[beeroosterm]

@shjakes A matter of time before what? Before someone calls you out on your racist views and pedantic manner? Your working-class hero worship? Your attitude is an old one; one where you have to suffer in order to have "real" experiences and that somehow being black imbues someone with a special kind of nobility. Bullshit, all of it. It doesn't matter whether I've "paid my dues" in order to enjoy and/or criticize a musical form. You've made it a matter of race, and that is despicable.

[teamcrumb]

@beeroosterm Hitler was despicable. I prefer to line up real criminals in front of the word despicable.

Your attempts to embellish your conduct wiv a whifferoo of moral highground is so very thin i can actually see your knickers through your trousers.

Here's you to you!

Take a fucking whiff of your own parts. You know you want to.

[beeroosterm]

@teamcrumb You may eat my shorts, sir (excuse me - knickers). And frankly, using the word "despicable" only to describe Hitlerean-level crimes is absurd. Additionally, I don't give a shit for anyone who argues against taking the moral high ground on the subject of racism. AFT was a racist. That he was a black man only makes him more despicable. He wasn't a very good guitar player, either...

[smackbunny]

@beeroosterm

I usually take the side of the least and the less but I do honour logic.

I'm gonna be called racist, but I agree with you.

[beeroosterm]

@smackbunny That is the problem with political correctness: it defies logic and reason, especially as concerns racism. For instance, there are many people who think that it is impossible for a black person to be racist. In this, AFT was a prime example. In another video posted on YouTube, he rants about how there are no "black Americans" but rather there are "blacks in America", simultaneously negating an entire culture (Americans) while lumping all black people into an amorphous collective.

[smackbunny]

@beeroosterm

Well, OK I'll try this and see if I can say this without pissing off half the planet.

Political correctness is almost always used to cover a flaw in another gender or race.

I'm a white male, I don't care if you are some other race or gender.

The fact is, women are trained to be weak and black people are told they are less than I am.

There is a day when a black child understands he is black.

I have no idea how to fix these things, I just want the stupidity to end in my lifetime

[beeroosterm]

@smackbunny That day will not come soon, for political correctness is the refuge of the ignorant and the lazy. People turn to it with its convenient but misguided platitudes, not understanding the erosion and subsequent destruction that it is causing to a value system that created the greatest society the world has ever seen.

[teamcrumb]

@beeroosterm Woh there hoss. I see you learned a big word. All music is based on another source you pranett, are you seriously joshing my Jackson??? And less of of the N word you medieval toddler.

[leftysergeant]

@beeroosterm Look here, you ignorant little cracker. The blues is AFRICAN in origin. Start from that point or people will call you an idiot every time you open your foul mouth to criticise someone else's music.

Now shut up and look at the way Ali fingers his guitar. Then call up a video of someone (Bassekou Kouyate would be great) playing the n'goni. You will see how the blues was born, if you don't fry your only two good synapses in the process of trying to think.

[beeroosterm]

@leftysergeant Delta blues has its origins in the Mississippi delta. If you want to argue that Blind Lemon Jefferson played his guitar the way he did because some African did it the same way on his n'goni, you're drawing the wrong conclusion. Connecting delta blues guitar with African tribal music is a tenuous connection. Field hollers, work songs, call/response in the fields eventually evolved into Negro spirituals, forming the basis for DB in the early 1900's. I'm no cracker; fuck you...

[leftysergeant]

@beeroosterm And just where in the hell do you think the field holler and call and response came from? For that matter, where do you think things like the banjo came from? Slaves didn't go to school. They learned all their musical skills from their elders, and that meant that they learned the African style.

Try thinking when somebody tells you something.

[beeroosterm]

@leftysergeant It doesn't seem to matter what I say or do to prove my point(s); your intransigence in the face firm evidence contrary to your claims is frustrating. It's people like you who think they know what they're talking about that perpetuate harmful stereotypes among the credulous. I think you - and some of the others who are hypercritical of me - should spend more time looking into your ability (or inability) to judge others. Try looking at research dedicated to the Dunning-Kruger effect

[lionzion22]

@beeroosterm

Here is your first step on your way to being educated. Type in "Durgama" in the search field. Click on the first video in the list. Listen, while you shut up. Then hopefully that will spurn you to learn more about North/West/Central Africa and how it is the homeland of "Blues" and many other things we enjoy in America today, but take for granted.

[beeroosterm]

@lionzion22 Ahem..."spurn" means "to reject with disdain". As such, it is redundant to ask me to spurn the hypothesis that North/West/Central Africa is home to the blues. Fuck Africa, fuck Ali Farke Ture, and fuck you, ignorant dildo. We took what the black man had do offer and made it better. Witness Eric Clapton's "Crossroads Blues". Stop whining, fuckface dipshit...

[lionzion22]

@beeroosterm

Facts always makes the idiot come out of hiding. "Spurn" as in spurn your previous ideas after watching that video i offered, and thus learn more about the truth. Then again, you have never cared about facts. Thus is the way of the moron ethnicity.

[lionzion22]

@beeroosterm

It also stands that even in the white european loud and ragged style, Jimi Hendrix is even the king of that. What does that leave you?

[beeroosterm]

@lionzion22 It leaves me trying to make a point with someone whose first language is not English. I'm pissing into the wind with you. Good luck...

[deltabilly1]

I was there!

[JandritoBlues]

Great video. Thanks for uploading. That rhythm section kills it. It is like being in vortex of groove.

Ry (being an American) would call that garment a "tank top." What he calls a "vest" you would call a waistcoat. Yep, American English, it's crazy. And I can see him wearing that kind of garment. He did grow up in a Southern California beach town.

Thanks again for uploading and you have any more from this show we would all love to see it.

[jipes]

Fantastic sound and hypmotic groove, I love the way Ali Farka was gettin everyone in this great dancin mood, Ry as always is playin' right in the pocket ! Thanks a lot for sharing too bad that the clip is so short :o(

[tanyet]

He's got that orange long sleeve shirt he always wears tied around his waist for good reason. I'm from Mississippi and I can tell you it was probably 120 degrees on that stage! lol. New Orleans humidity doesn't help either. Great vid!