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Track Listings
| 1. Duna Ma Yelema |
| 2. Baba Drame |
| 3. Les Enfants De Pierrette |
| 4. Samba |
| 5. Bebe Bo Nadero |
| 6. Tunga Magni |
| 7. Courir Un Homme Qui Vous Aime |
| 8. Macire |
| 9. Serrer La Main |
| 10. Kalilou |
| 11. Solo De Kar Kar |
| 12. Kar Kar Madison |
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Recorded when Boubacar Traore was in his 50s, Traoré flexes his mastery of the acoustic guitar and blues-inflected vocals on his first readily available release in decades. Like the late Congolese rumba impresario Franco, Boubacar "Kar Kar" Traoré is a legendary artist. At home, when Traoré performed on Radio Mali in 1988 after a long hiatus, listeners who assumed he'd been dead for years feared a hoax. Kar Kar's deeply soulful songs invite comparison with fellow Malian Ali Farka Toure. But if the gritty Ali Farka evokes John Lee Hooker, Kar Kar with his chiming guitar lines and smoke-tinged voice is closer to Mississippi John Hurt. The gracefully mournful "Les Enfants de Pierrette" is a tribute to his late wife, while on "Bebe Bo Nadero", a celebration of motherhood, he trades licks with pop star Habib Koite, the disc's artistic producer. Spanish guitar ripples through the meditative "Courir un Homme Qui Vous Aime", but Kar Kar can also pull off a jump-up number such as the bouncy, unbridled "Kar Kar Madison", which reclaims a 1960s Malian dance craze. The give and take between African and African-American genres is centuries old, but the tug-of-war seldom achieves a more satisfying equilibrium. --Bob Tarte
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