12’ Bar Ramblin’ #57 'More West African Blues' with Stefan Matussek 09.03.2021

West African Blues is a form of popular music primarily stemming from the
West-African countries of Mali and Senegal. It fuses the traditional music of
the region with blues music and R&B. In a way it can be said that this is a
genre that has come full circle: musical traditions brought over to America via
the slave trade have returned in the form of blues music and melded again with
those same traditional musical styles from which it originated. One of the most
popular artists of the genre Ali Farka Touré even argued that there was no
distinction between blues and West-African traditional music, arguing that blues
music was "nothing but African".