Songhoy Blues – "Badala" (Weekly Music Roundup)

Songhoy Blues – "Badala" (Weekly Music Roundup)

From Mali comes the band called Songhoy Blues. They play the bluesy music of the western Sahara on electric guitars, so it sounds like they’ve been listening to early 70s blues/rock bands. But their songs are about contemporary African concerns: this one is about a young woman freeing herself from a dominating man. It’s called “Badala,” a word I can say on the radio since it’s in the Songhai language. If I said it in English, it’d be “I don’t give a…” and then I’d have to stop. The song, "Badala" by the Malian band Songhoy Blues is part of our Weekly Music Roundup.