This song's lyrics are (to me) astonishingly unusual. This is good "sung poetry." Who can ever forget "dance me to the end of love?" Has anyone ever said that to you? Or have you said this to anyone? Well, now, thanks to Leonard Cohen...you CAN!
Mansour Seck has been a leading figure in Dande Lenon, Baaba Maal's band, for many years, and performed on many of Baaba Maal's recordings. Seck has released disks under his own name, as well. Mansour Seck and Baba Maal come from the same town, Podor, in Northern Senegal.
Willie, man, c'mon! 6:00 news, somebody been shot, somebody's been abused, somebody got away, somebody didn't get too far...Toby, son, you gotta saddle up your boys, you gotta draw a hard line. When the gunsmoke settles...we'll raise up our glasses against evil forces, singin' Whiskey for My Man, Beer for My Horses!
Listen to his strings (vocal, dan, n'goni, guitar) with his fellow citizens (Salif Keita, Ali Farka Touré, Habib Koïté, Oumou Sangaré, Guerebou Kounkan …) as well as on Mali lovers' artists (hip hop globetrotter Kwal, fiddled pop of Toma Side...
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