I've talked about it many times, and made a point of featuring it on that comp Rae mentioned, but one of my favorites over about the last 10 years has been Djam Leelii, a mostly acoustic collaboration between Sengalese star Baaba Maal and blind singer/guitarist Mansour Seck. Beautiful CD. Originally recorded in 1982 and released with very limited distribution a couple years later, only to fall into obscurity. Shame, but I guess the master tapes were even lost for many years. Surfaced again in 1998 on a very nice sounding CD mastered by John Dent with a couple bonus tracks from those same '82 sessions, and since that time has become one of my favorites. Not just a favorite in guitar music, or African music, but an unqualified favorite. Beautiful, sublime and evocative, foreshadowing the wave of acoustic Afro-pop that was to come in the nineties. Masterful guitar interplay between Maal and Seck, with some electric credited to Aziz Dieng. One of those albums that I can just listen to over and over and over and ..... one of the best of the new millenium also came from Baaba Maal in "Missing You". Kind of a modern classic already. Featured on one of my favorite comps from myself, Half Gone (subsequently appended with 2001), kind of a classic in itself