Two Malian Guitar Greats, ... Traore's last album was called Bwati Kono, or "in the club." That's where Traore thrived, in the out of the way, working-class nightclubs of the Malian capital, ...

Famed country singer Ernest Tubb rode his bicycle, guitar strapped to his back, to KONO studios back in the late 1930s to perform songs live each morning on the radio station during its early years.

So Kono – which translates as “inside the chamber” in the Mande language – is Keita’s most spartan LP yet. He has always said that he feels self-conscious about his guitar playing ...

Also present were Badie Tounkara, underpinning Keita’s acoustic guitar on ngoni, and Mamadou Koné salting the rhythm with the odd tap of calabash. On albums and in concert, Keita tended to ...

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