Ambiances du Sahara: Desert Blues, released in '96, was a huge hit that lingered on Europe's world-music charts for months. Such success has sparked Desert Blues 2, a second double-CD compilation… By ...

The mainstream pop world still may not be aware of it but, over the last four decades, there has been a distinctive brand of guitar-driven, blues and rock-flavored music wafting in from northwestern ...

Our featured anthology celebrates a paradox: there are few more fertile places - musically - than Africa's drier regions. They're especially rich in great singers & players of various species of lute, ...

The inaugural Diamond in the Desert Blues Festival is set to take place Oct. 6 at Hills Park, 9100 Hillpointe Road. Featured acts include Bobby Womack, Sir Charles Jones, Denise La Salle, Marvin Sease ...

For several decades, desert blues was a regional genre little known outside of the Sahara and Sahel. Only in the last 20 years has the genre emerged from the desert and established a musical niche in ...

The next musician to complain about how difficult it is to get discovered might tone down the volume after hearing the story of Tinariwen. That the band comes from the West African nation of Mali may ...

The Tuareg tribesmen of the Sahara have a saying, something along the lines of "Patience comes from God, haste comes from the devil". I wish somebody had told our Tuareg driver. The adage, doubtless ...

The legendary African guitarist Ali Farka Toure has died. Toure, who pioneered his distinctive "desert blues" sound on successive albums which won him a global following as well as two Grammy Awards, ...