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Article: Justin Adams: from Sinead to the Sahara.(guitarist)(Interview)
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- Guitar Player
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- October 1, 1998
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Justin Adams celebrated this past St. Patrick's Day quaffing stout and playing traditional Irish songs with sometime boss Sinead O'Connor. Not that he actually knew the repertoire, mind you. "I just followed the other guitarists' fingers," he laughs.
Adams, who appeared on O'Connor's Gospel Oak EP and accompanied her on several tours, has made a career of finger watching. Whether playing with O'Connor, Algerian Rai singer Abdel Ali Slimani, Senegalese great Baaba Maal, or bassist Jah Wobble (in the influential Invaders of the Heart), Adams' forays into global music are based on watching and listening rather than formal study.
"When I was a kid, I ...