Ali Farka Touré ("the red album") sleeve
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Ali Farka Touré ("the red album")

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Artist
Ali Farka Touré
Released
1984

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Mali Desert Blues
For the obsessed · 1968-present · Members

This 1984 self-titled release, known ever after as 'the red album' for its cover, sat unremarkably in a Paris record shop until BBC DJ Andy Kershaw happened on it by chance.

The rest is in Mali Desert Blues, a members' issue.

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