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In The Name Of Love Africa Celebrates U2  Hear it Now

RS: 3of 5 Stars

2008

Bono deserves props for global stumping on Africa's behalf. So it's good that this tribute is a rootsy thank-you, not a world-music cheesefest. Guinea's Ba Cissoko reinvents "Sunday Bloody Sunday" with kora-harp ripples, guitarist Vieux Farka Touré turns "Bullet the Blue Sky" into a dusty Malian blues, and Cheikh Lô makes "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For" into a chattering Afro-flamenco workout. Great songwriting makes translation easier.

WILL HERMES

(Posted: May 29, 2008)

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