Robin D folk world playlist

This month’s selection includes the ‘Hendrix of the kora’, award-winning miserablists and bluesy tunes from a maverick New York nine-pieceThe best historical live album of the year thus far is Real World’s Fatteliku, a record of Youssou N’Dour’s extraordinary performance in Greece in 1987, when he and his band were Peter Gabriel’s guests on the So tour. Youssou was then 28, largely unknown in Europe, but in rousing, confident form. This was his opening s