Habib Koité & Bamada
Habib comes from a noble line of Khassonké griots, traditional troubadors who provide wit, wisdom and musical entertainment at social gatherings and special events. Habib grew up surrounded by seventeen brothers and sisters, and developed his unique guitar style accompanying his griot mother. He inherited his passion for music from his paternal grandfather who played the kamele n'goni, a traditional four-stringed instrument associated with hunters from the Wassolou region of Mali. "Nobody really taught me to sing or to play the guitar," explains Habib, "I watched my parents, and it washed off on me."
RANCHERA, basically a waltz, polka, or bolero, concerns itself with love, patriotism, and nature. SON is a fusion of indigenous, Spanish, and African musics, much like Cuban son ~ but it varies from region to region. MARIACHI is both a genre and a band (composed of 2 violins, 2 trumpets, a Spanish guitar, 2 other guitars called vilhuela and guitarron, and today, trumpets.
Guitarist Nels Cline, recently named a "Guitar God" by Rolling Stone Magazine, presents a brilliant solo CD that covers an extraordinarily brand range of musical styles, with a surprising acoustic sensibility. The provocative title is misleading as this intensely personal album demonstrates a daring musicianship and a willingness to take musical and emotional risks. Coward blends improvisation and composition with a huge and constantly changing emotional and timbral palette. "Coward" is a musical tour de force.
A beautiful, sweet, yearning, graceful Modzitz Hassidic melody affiliated with "The Admor Shaul Yedidya of Modzitz (1887-1948)." It's simple, with just voice and steel-stringed guitar (and a baglama?)
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...
Erkan Oğur (b. 1954, Ankara). He invented the first classical fretless guitar, plays his own compositions as well as Turkish traditional music, and also plays kopuz and baglama.
Serbian Music CD: The guys from Palanke. Let's all go to Dukati. Tamburaski orchestra. tamburaski tambura tamburica doczok serbia serbian suboticka subotico orchestra music tambura prim guitar violin strings stringed instruments traditional folkloric musicians friends blip.fm
Nearly a year in the making and brimming with a newfound focus on original material, Already Free is The Derek Trucks Band's natural evolution as they move forward integrating influences that span a variety of musical genres. Known for their blues roots, the group takes this album well beyond blues to incorporate the larger sounds of rock & soul. Already Free features a stirring cover of Bob Dylan's Down In The Flood as well as the new songs, Down Don't Bother Me and Get What You Deserve.
1. Respect - Aretha Franklin
2. Louie Louie - Kingsmen
3. I Heard It Through The Grapevine - Marvin Gaye
4. (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction - Rolling Stones
5. Like A Rolling Stone - Bob Dylan
6. Hey Jude - Beatles
7. Good Vibrations - Beach Boys
8. You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin' - Righteous Brothers
9. My Girl - Temptations
10. Light My Fire - Doors
11. She Loves You - Beatles
12. You Really Got Me - Kinks
13. In The Midnight Hour - Wilson Pickett
14. Sunshine Of Your Love - Cream
15. Purple Haze - Jimi Hendrix
16. A Day In The Life - Beatles
17. Papa's Got A Brand New Bag - James Brown
18. Whole Lotta Love - Led Zeppelin
19. My Generation - The Who
20. All Along The Watchtower - Jimi Hendrix
21. Mr. Tambourine Man - Byrds
22. Proud Mary - Creedence Clearwater Revival
23. Dock Of The Bay - Otis Redding
24. When A Man Loves A Woman - Percy Sledge
25. I Want To Hold Your Hand - Beatles
26. A Whiter Shade Of Pale - Procol Harum
27. House Of The Rising Sun - Animals
28. Yesterday - Beatles
29. Be My Baby - Ronettes
30. Where Did Our Love Go - Supremes
31. Somebody To Love - Jefferson Airplane
32. I Saw Her Standing There - Beatles
33. Green Onions - Booker T. & the MGs
34. The Sounds Of Silence - Simon & Garfunkel
35. I Want You Back - Jackson 5
36. Soul Man - Sam & Dave
37. I Get Around - Beach Boys
38. Reach Out, I'll Be There - Four Tops
39. Gimme Some Lovin' - Spencer Davis Group
40. Ain't Too Proud To Beg - Temptations
41. All Day And All Of The Night - Kinks
42. Mony Mony - Tommy James & the Shondells
43. Jumpin' Jack Flash - Rolling Stones
44. Born To Be Wild - Steppenwolf
45. Oh, Pretty Woman - Roy Orbison
46. White Room - Cream
47. Sympathy For The Devil - Rolling Stones
48. Ticket To Ride - Beatles
49. The Tracks Of My Tears - Miracles
50. California Dreamin' - The Mamas & the Papas
51. Eight Miles High - Byrds
52. For What It's Worth - Buffalo Springfield
53. Strawberry Fields Forever - Beatles
54. Nights In White Satin - Mo