The guitarist of the day is Ali Farka Toure

The guitarist of the day is Ali Farka Toure. Ali Farke Toure was a virtuoso of the highest order in Africa, and the pivotal figure in modern Malian music. The son of an upper class Muslim family, this non-griot (not of a music family or caste) came to music through an abundance of talent and skill. Musicians do not rank highly in most Muslim societies, so a music career was actually a downwardly mobile move for him (and by extension his family) to make. Eventually, Toure came to symbolize and sound Malian music to the world, and nothing raises local status like success.  His international popularity was sealed by his association with American guitarist/producer Ry Cooder, and by the obvious affinities between Toure's music and American deep blues (particularly John Lee Hooker) that made Toure's sound immediately recognizable and available, with a difference, to European and American ears. He played up this blues/Malian connection to the maximum, both inventing and discovering linkages. White people ate that shit up. Sophisticated radio hosts (especially in LA) thought they had discovered the unspoiled direct river route to the mother land. What they got was a direct shot of Ali Farka Toure, the maestro. Allāhu Akbar (الله أكبر). God is Great!
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 Ali Farke Toure discussing American "black" music and it's relation to him and Malian/African music. American blues guitarist Corey Harris is the interlocuter and second guitarist.