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““You have to collaborate, otherwise you’ll get nowhere in today’s world,” Afel Bocoum states in the press release accompanying his new album Lindé. Working with others has been a common thread throughout the singer-songwriter and guitarist’s distinguished career. In the 1960s, when he was just 13, he joined legendary multi-instrumentalist and fellow Malian Ali Farka Touré’s backing band and, since”
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“Child prodigies don’t always rocket to fame. Songwriter and guitarist Afel Bocoum was inducted into the group of Mali’s late great bluesman Ali Farka Touré in his early teens, though it wasn’t until his 50s that he made a record of his own, when producer Nick Gold cut him and Touré on back-to-back albums on their home turf in remote northern Mali. Subsequently, Bocoum became a star turn on Damon A”
