That’s awesome! I am a little jealous - never got to see Ali play. His son Vieux Farka Toure is still touring and putting on great shows though.
We put an Ali Farka Toure song, “Gomni” on our first album One Less Sound in tribute to the master. Check it out!
Yeah, I ran across photos and links to John’s stuff but wasn’t sure. Wow. Very wow. Of his current models, is yours like any of them? Archtop, Semi-Hollow, Solid? Details man! 
Either way, it sounds - literally and figuratively - like you got a winner!
We saw Ali play in Bamako at the local theater, which was basically a suffocatingly hot and smelly building with folding chairs. Man, that guy could light up a stage, though. Young girls would jump onto the stage and start that booty-shaking thing that is traditional dance in parts of Africa. He was a big fan of Chuck Berry and would do the duck walk during some numbers. The rhythm section was basically a large gourd overturned on top of a microphone. The thump! would rattle your ribcage.
We saw Koite in Anchorage, of all places. He’s got a helluva talking drum player, and does a nice job of fusing African and Caribe and of course blues.
I have a full-size gourd balafon sitting in my basement, along with a talking drum and a couple of others. At least one gourd rattle with shells all over it. All purchased in Africa in the 90s. I have no idea what to do with this stuff. 
My guitar is a semi-hollow body modeled after the original thinline telecasters, when there were dual humbuckers instead of the angled single coil pickups. Mine has live EMG pickups, extra fat frets, and I play almost exclusively with both pickups active.
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PLAY IT, man!!!
Know those well. Sounds very cool, sir.
Holy cow - we are now on the Billboard chart. Totally awesome!
Wow! And we can claim we knew you back in the day!
That is wonderful; it is SO hard to get traction in the music biz. Keep it up!!
I just got around to listening to your record, and congrats. I like the African-styled guitar solos on “Holiday” a hell of a lot, and the guitar on Hideaway is great. I have extreme envy of you or the other guitarist’s MoogerFoogerness.
Really, the whole thing sounds awesome. How/where did you record? Specifically, did that fantastic bass sound come from a direct box, or did they mic a cab?
Wow! - good ears! That is the other guitarist and it is a classic MoogerFooger.
The bass is a 1973 Fender Jazz Bass run through an Ampeg SVT II tube amp and the enormous Ampeg SVT810AV Classic cab. Not sure about the mic specs.
Recorded at ClearTracks in Clearwater, FL on analog tape.
yay! That’s really huge news! Speaking as a lifelong (but very amateur) musician, this is a huge accomplishment and you should be so proud!
Hehehe, I wish I could claim my ears are that good, but you told us up-thread that there was a MoogerFooger in there. 
Either way, sexy piece of equipment, and it sounds great.
OTOH, I wish I had said what I thought the bass sound was, because then I might look experieinced. An SVT through an 8x10 with passive pickups would have been my guess, and analog tape for the recording medium. The record sounds super lush and big, really.
Maybe I can make a good guess here, to retroactively justify your compliment: is the auto-wah the bassist using an Electro-Harmonix one? If it’s a Mu-Tron, that’s my second guess. Third guesses don’t count in auto-wahs, E-H makes about 20 different ones, and almost everyone else uses a Mu-Tron.
And if it’s not too personal a question, what was the rate at such a nice sounding studio these days? I understand if you can’t say, I got a bargain on my last studio booking, and can’t say what I paid other than “I got a bargain”.
ETA: Oooooooooooooooooooh, damn gorgeous recording studio. But, about 10x my budget, I think.
- Yep - an Electro-Harmonix. Impressive!
- I believe the usual rate is around 1000 a day with the engineers. We got a bargain.
Our new video, just shot in Costa Rica.