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Banning Eyre

Banning Eyre is senior producer for Public Radio International’s Peabody Award-winning Afropop Worldwide (afropop.org) and author of a number of books on African music and history.

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Tinariwen's Sahara Blues
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Coming out of the struggles of post colonial desert Africa, Tuareg band Tinariwen adapted blues rock ‘n‘ roll guitars to North African traditions. The result has been nearly four decades of a sound that has inspired an entire genre of “desert blues,” in which themes of loss, home, hope and unity transcend language for audiences around the world.

Banning Eyre

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Tinariwen's Sahara Blues