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“You can blow out a candle/ But you can’t blow out a fire/ Once the flames begin to catch/ The wind will blow it higher” - Chris Wallace was the only American journalist permitted to interview Vladimir Putin face-to-face at the Helsinki summit in 2018. As Craig Lambert writes in a profile of Wallace, the longtime
10 Remixes - Remixes of some of the greater hits of Les Negresses Vertes? But you've never heard the original songs! Remixes, as you know, are generally done to make music more
Abdel Wright - Abdel Wright How's this
Ali Farka Toure - When Ali Farka Toure died in 2006, all Mali wept. This was a giant --- he took his country's music and blended it with the American blues of
Amadou & Mariam: ‘We’ll shop with Gwyneth Paltrow’ - Decades after they had to leave Mali to launch any kind of career in music, Amadou Bagayoko and Mariam Doumbia are its best known citizens. Dimanche à Bamako --- their
Amadou & Mariam: Dimanche a Bamako - Do you like music that makes you happy? I don't mean moderately happy, 7.5 on a scale of 10, isn't it a great day happy, kind of sort of happy. I mean
Amadou & Mariam: Welcome to Mali - Amadou Bagayoko and Mariam Doumbia have climbed to the pinnacle of World Music. But "Welcome to Mali" is wrongly titled, for with this release, they've made another, dazzling ascent ---
Amadou and Mariam: Folila - There’s nothing harder than creating the follow-up to genius. The next Shakespeare play produced after “Hamlet& Michael Jackson’s follow-up to “Thriller” was…”Bad.” Harper’s Lee next book after “To Kill A Mockingbird” was…nothing. In 2005,
Andy Palacio and the Garifuna Collective - In the 1700s, West African slaves were shipwrecked on the Caribbean island of St. Vincent. They intermarried with Arawak Indians and lived peacefully until the English forced them into exile
Bob Marley & The Wailers - When Bob Marley died in 1981, he left behind a complicated legacy: music you could dance to, music that made you raise a fist. For me, that begins with the
Bombino - You've never heard anything like Bombino's music. The foundation is a drummer who plays tight, clipped, ruthlessly propulsive time. Then it's thundering, amped-up bass and rhythm guitars. And then there's
Boubacar Traoré - SUPPORTING BUTLER: Since the start of 2023, Amazon seems to have gone on a quiet campaign to rid itself of small sites that, collectively, generate revenue worth noticing — and
Caetano Veloso & David Byrne: Live at Carnegie Hall - For one sensational week each year, the trees blossom and my street gains a canopy of white. In a light breeze, there are waves overhead. A stiffer breeze, and it
Cesaria Evora - A great singer lived quietly on an island you almost surely have not visited. Can't place Sao Vicente? It's one of the Cape Verde islands. And you may not be able to
Chants Of India - May all be happy. May all be healthy. May all experience what is good and let no one suffer. Any religion with a hymn like that is okay with me. And any
Chavela Vargas (1919-2012) - I never heard of Chavela Vargas until she died. But an email and an obituary got me moving; hours later, limp and in thrall, I knew I’d have to tell
Cheb Khaled - Khaled's New York concert was to have been held shortly after 9/11, but what were the chances that Arabs living in Europe were getting on planes bound for New York
Danit Treubig - Danit Treubig doesn't make it easy to learn about her. The music is easier to find; a lot of what she’s recorded is on YouTube. Let's begin there, where I
Divas of Mali - I know why the caged bird sings. Mali once controlled much of the African gold trade; now it's the world's fifth poorest nation. If you've read Peace Corps volunteer Kris
Djivan Gasparyan - In the middle of the night, when it’s so quiet that you can barely hear the breeze, what kind of music would you want to hear? Something that honors the
