griot · 1 November 08 by Ray Crowley
griot |ˈgriːəʊ|
noun
a member of a class of traveling poets, musicians, and storytellers who maintain a tradition of oral history in parts of West Africa.
ORIGIN French, earlier guiriot, perhaps from Portuguese criado.
Europe. Forests. Ireland. Rory Gallagher - For the Last Time (1971)