Talking Timbuktu - Ali Farka Touré with Ry Cooder

Album by Ali Farka Touré with Ry Cooder

Released 28 March 1994

Ali Farka Touré
acoustic guitar [3, 6, 9], banjitar [1], electric guitar [1-2, 5, 7, 10], njarka [4, 8], percussion [2], vocal [1-3, 5-7, 9-10]
Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown
electric guitar [6], viola [9]
Hamma Sankaré
background vocals [2-3, 7, 10], calabash, vocal [1]
Jim Champagne
assistant
Jim Keltner
drums (drum set) [5-6, 9]
John Patitucci
bass guitar [6, 9], double bass [5]
Larry Kalman Hirsch
mix [1-2, 6, 10]
Mark Ettel
mix, recording
Nick Gold
executive, liner notes
Oumar Touré
background vocals [1-3, 7, 9-10], bongos [3, 9], congas [1-2, 4-6, 8, 10]
Ry Cooder
accordion [10], acoustic guitar [2], bass guitar [10], cümbüş [1], electric guitar [3, 6, 10], mandolin [9], marimba [10], mbira [3], octave mandolin [2], producer, slide guitar [5, 9], tambura [7]
Susan Titelman
photography