Songhoy Blues, an African desert blues group with Touré at the helm, was eventually formed. The group gained fame after a run of shows in Bamako, Mali. Around that time the group met Paul Chandler, a ...

"He just wanted play music and then he made us food - a ... influenced by ongoing ethnic tensions and violence in Mali. On his recent album Les Racines (The Roots), Vieux returned to the desert ...