If You Want to Make a Lover

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“Palm Wine, Akan Blues & Early Guitar Highlife, Pt. I & II” is a collection encompassing Akan blues, PalmWine and early guitar-based Highlife music, with recordings dating from the late 1920s through to the end of the 1950s.

The music included here can probably all be said to have all stemmed from a style that […]

#50smusic #Highlife #PalmWineMusic #OldAfricanMusic #Blues

Palm Wine Guitar Music with S. E. Rogie

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Sooliman Ernest Rogers, (1926 – 1994) better known as S. E. Rogie, was a Highlife and PalmWine musician and guitarist from Sierra Leone. Palm Wine Guitar Music: The 60s Sound has been recorded in 1988.

S.E. Rogie went from running a tailor shop in Sierra Leone to being one of West Africa’s most popular artists. […]

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Easy Motion Tourist

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If you love old African music, from the Golden Age of Nigerian music in particular, you’ve known the song “Easy Motion Tourist”, made popular by Fatai Rolling Dollar in his last records before his death. But, there’s a long story behind this song since the ‘50s: who created it, who made it famous…
What’s for […]

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Four Days in Faso - Kwame Brenya & Legon Palmwine Band

Read: On his latest EP, Kwame Brenya turns a failed migration into musical testimony—offering a biting critique of ECOWAS, broken borders, and the everyday collapse of pan-African ideals.
https://africasacountry.com/2025/05/a-migrants-tale

Listen: Poetry, Storytelling, Drama & Music https://kwabrenyame.bandcamp.com/album/four-days-in-faso
Discussing African border issues through Palmwine music, based on true life experiences.

#Ghana #PalmWineMusic #ECOWAS #AIAC

“Cool Cats Invasion” is a classic collection (102 tracks) of Highlife, Palm-wine music & Jùjú from Nigeria & Ghana, from the 50’s & 60’s.

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This compilation includes unavailable tracks by Earnest Olatunde Thomas, known as Tunde Nightingale or The Western Nightingale, as well as legendary Afrobeat pioneer Fela Ransome Kuti‘s first recordings of […]

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Tunde Nightingale & His Highlife Boys – Omo Lafiah / Araba

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Earnest Olatunde Thomas, known as Tunde Nightingale or The Western Nightingale, was a Nigerian singer and guitarist, best known for his unique Jùjú music style, following in the tradition of Tunde King…

From the album “The Bird That Sings All The Night” in 1968: Omo Lafiah & Araba.

#Highlife #JujuMusic #Nigeria #PalmWineMusic #60sMusic

🎶🎶 Kyeremateng Katwede – I Go Die for You

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After Ghana’s independence, as difficulties appeared and political or social commentary started to be censored, musicians went back to singing about love, the way Kyeremateng Katwede & The Kyeremateng Stars do here with electric Palmwine Music.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtFB7mH_ouw

More music here : Ghana Special: Modern Highlife, Afro Sounds & Ghanaian Blues 1968-1981

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Fatai Rolling Dollar – Easy Motion Tourist

Tracks0.00 – Omolore Aiye3.28 – Allah Na Tu Ba7.41 – Easy Motion Tourist11.10 – She Go Run Away15.56 – I Am Not A Banker19.47 – Won Kere Si Number Wa24.19 – Morocco Special29.01 – Feso Jaiye34.12 – Omo Oloye38.12 – Aduke44.13 – Eko Akete47.00 – Saworo50.20 – To Ba Fe Mo Dollar55.18 – Na Me Own You Dey See59.00 – Sisi Jaiye Jaiye

There’s a long story behing this song: who created it, who made it famous…

What’s for sure is King Sunny Ade is not the original composer, but it featured on his Grammy-nominated 1998 album titled Odu.

The song “Easy Motion Tourist” belongs to a sub-genre of Highlife called Palmwine Highlife – a freestyle territory where lyrics are often unrelated and disjointed.

For more info, read this thread on Twitter.

#highlife #nigeria #palmwinemusic

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