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    Mississippi To Mali

    Bluesman Harris made this set of field recordings in Mississippi and Mali, aiming to highlight the music's bicontinental roots. The result is anemic and too academic -- with minimal production values and accompaniment often consisting of kitchen-sink acoustic pitter-patter.

    CHRISTIAN...

    2003 RS: 2of 5 Stars

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Roughly around the time that OutKast and Goodie Mob rose from the South to represent country manners, several fleet-fingered musicologists were similarly rehabilitating the reputation of acoustic blues. The tradition of Son House and Charley Patton had long been maligned as shabby and backward by young black bluesmen who favored the flashy urbanity of the music's Chicago descendants. Along with Ke...

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