[xrr rating=4.5/5]Lobi Traoré was one of Mali’s many musical treasures. A scorching-hot guitar player nicknamed “Africa’a Jimi Hendrix,” Traoré helped redefine the electric guitar’s role in African music until his death at age 49 in 2010. Although never as famous in the west as, say, Salif Keita, Baaba Maal or Ali Farka Touré (who produced Lobi’s 1995 release Bamako), Lobi …