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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwodQdM4hvk Not many groups look and sound as fresh as they did first time round, 20 years later, but in...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcTDoi9JQiY A true griot, poet and storyteller in the tradition begun by Homer and Sappho 2,800 years...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8WzDO_hj8A The other John Cale. In 1964, singer songwriter John Weldon Cale (known as J.J.) moved to LA...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3Sq3HL2OV8 A subversion of traditional boy-for-girl adoration as Patti Smith takes the song - "Gloria" -...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7iLFuapeY8 Pivotal in the original and classic Velvet Underground line-up was Welshman John Cale, often...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkumhBVPGdg Not all girl-name songs are paeans to the beauty of or love for the woman in question....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5HuE33wUso Mory Kanté started out in the "Super Rail Band of the Buffet Hotel de la Gare, Bamako",...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKQ_rie50Dg To emphasise the excellence of Mory Kanté, here's a second track from "Akwaba Beach" with yet...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Oxyhu8V34g I was very sad to hear of the death on May 22nd of Guinean kora player and singer Mory Kanté....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgqMW4CHClk As in the case of Louis, it has been my habit to sing the appropriate song to someone's name...