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West African Treasures

owe an enormous gratitude to West Africa and all of the musicians that I’ve had the honor of playing with; they have been my teachers and still are. I was always interested in finding out where the blues came from and everybody always said that it came from Africa, but nobody explained to me exactly how. I feel very lucky that I was able to immerse myself

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