beautiful cover! You nailed it! Reminds me of my childhood

Melancholia

2013, Alligator Records
Produced by Jack Younger & Jesse Dee

Boundary Line

Macy Gray Creep (acoustic)

Bombino - Agamgam
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Release date: April 19th, 2014 (Record Store Day)
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Glitterbeat Records is proud to announce our first ever Record Store Day release. On April 19th we will drop a very special vinyl version of Agamgam 2004, the debut album from Niger’s Tuareg sensation Bombino. The album has previously only been available as a digital download.

By any measurement the last couple of years have been an exhilarating ride for Bombino, culminating in 2013’s album Nomad, which was produced by Dan Auerbach of the arena filling Black Keys and was released to widespread acclaim. Agamgam 2004 is a beautiful contrast to the Nashville recorded Nomad. This is Tuareg music in its most pure and unadulterated form.

In late 2004, Bombino recorded acoustic versions of nine songs in the Ténéré desert, which became this, his first real album. He sings and plays several of his own compositions and also pays tribute to other Tuareg artists (Abdallah Oumbadougou, Hasso, Kedou). Recorded mostly around the campfire, his assembled friends join in on handclaps and undulations.

Bombino himself picks up the story:

I worked as a guide or cook’s helper and once the season ended, I bought a guitar and strings. I did that for some years, working wherever I could. In 2004, a Spanish team came to make a documentary film and organized a gathering in the Ténéré desert to the north of Agadez (Niger). I was there as a cook’s assistant and in the evening would play guitar in the camp. They decided to record what we were playing in the desert, in the place that’s called Agamgam. Since that’s where the recording came from, I wanted it to have the name of the place where it was made. It was completed in two days.

The rush of the desert wind, snippets of between song conversation and the sound of grazing animals in the distance are essential elements of the album’s deep atmosphere. Agamgam 2004 is not only an intimate, privileged view of Bombino's roots; it is also one of the most authentic documents of modern Tuareg music ever released.

The Agamgam 2004 LP is beautifully re-mastered from the original recordings, housed in a gatefold sleeve and pressed on 180-gram vinyl. A download code is also included. The album is being released in conjunction with the French label Reaktion and has been directly licensed from Bombino.

Tracklisting:

Side one:
01 Tenere Tenere
02 Imuhar
03 Amidinin
04 Intidgagen
05 Azaman

Side two:
01 Illilagh ténéré
02 Adounia adounia
03 Tazidert halal
04 Akh al zaman

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Bombino - Ténéré

Loved this song since I was a kid.  Tried to emulate the original's beautiful mix of acoustic and electric vibes.

From The Beginning (Emerson, Lake & Palmer cover)

A cover of 'While My Guitar Gently Weeps' by the Beatles.

Tom Mitchell is a Bristol-based singer-songwriter. 
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While My Guitar Gently Weeps (The Beatles) - cover by Tom Mitchell

Ella & Jad from my latest album Kali City.

Ella & Jad by Karim Baggili on SoundCloud

Alligator Records 45th Anniversary Collection

Mavis Staples - Will The Circle Be Unbroken

In my opinion!
There's a Blues, A Holy Blues, Black Blues and White Blues

- Blues is when you express your melancholy in music and words and it's perfect in every way if it's done right!

- The Holy Blues is when you reach some kind of Nirvana when you listen to it, mostly (if it's not always) comes from black people.

- Black Blues it's all what I said up there, in two words it's the Original thing.

- White Blues let's agree it's a fucking bullshit but sometimes it's okay and rarely perfect.

What we have here is so much different, it's A holy Blues coming from white  people and I don't even know what to call it. 
it's the rarely perfect that gives your goosebumps a goosebumps!

Thanks to Duane Allman and William Scaggs
&
Long live the blues

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Lyrics
Somebody loan me a dime
I need to call my old time used to be
Somebody loan me a dime mmm
I need to call my old time that used to be
Little girl's been gone so long
You know it's worrying me
Hey it's worrying worrying me
I know she's a good girl
But at that time I just didn't understand
I know she's a good girl
But at that time I just didn't understand
Oh no I didn't
Somebody loan me a dime
You know I need. I need a helping hand

Oh... she's a good girl
But at that time I just didn't understand
Ooooh I know she's a good girl
But at that time I just could not understand
Oh no
Somebody better loan me that dime
To ease my worried worried mind. oh
Now I cry. I just cry
Just like a baby all night long. oooh
You know I cry I just cry
Just like a baby all night long. oooh
Somebody better loan me that dime
I need my baby
I need my baby here at home. oooh YES

Songwriter: William Scaggs

Boz Scaggs & Duane Allman - Loan Me A Dime - 1969

33-Lou Reed & John Cale -Nobody-But-You

Lay Lady Lay - Bob Dylan

Petite Fleur - Jean Marie Riachi

Tony Bennett & Amy Winehouse - Body And Soul (COVER)

Davy Graham - Angi

Reprise de "Sweet Jane" de Cowboys Junkies.
(Si tu écoutes bien, tu peux entendre un petit featuring avec mon chat dans les 30 premières secondes...)

From The Beginning (Emerson, Lake & Palmer cover)

TJPenitencia

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