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Taj Mahal is the debut album by American guitarist and vocalist Taj Mahal. Recorded in 1967, it contains blues songs by Sleepy John Estes , Robert Johnson , and Sonny Boy Williamson II reworked in contemporary blues- and folk-rock styles. [ 1 ]
Taj is an album by American blues artist Taj Mahal. The cover photograph was by Robert Mapplethorpe. ... Taj Mahal - acoustic and electric guitars, bass, percussion ...
Davis joined Taj Mahal and played guitar and piano on Mahal's first four albums. He played slide, lead and rhythm, country and even jazz during his three-year stint with Mahal. In a 1967 gig, Mahal played with a young Duane Allman in attendance, and Davis' slide guitar playing on Statesboro Blues that night would ignite Allman's interest in the ...
The Real Thing is a double live album by Taj Mahal, released in 1971. It was recorded on February 13, 1971, at the Fillmore East in New York City and features Taj Mahal backed by a band that includes four tuba players.
Mahal was born Henry St. Claire Fredericks Jr. on May 17, 1942, in Harlem, New York City.Growing up in Springfield, Massachusetts, he was raised in a musical environment: his mother was a member of a local gospel choir and his father, Henry Saint Claire Fredericks Sr., was an Afro-Caribbean jazz arranger and piano player.
Disc and Music Echo called it a "fine album, it's funky and it's gutsy, and there's splended brass on it". [5] Rolling Stone Magazine said it is a "loose riotous blues 'n roots album", and that Taj Mahal is "nearly alone carrying the torch of the country music blues for other young black musicians to hear".
Taj Mahal: Taj Mahal chronology; Satisfied 'n Tickled Too (1976) ... Music Fuh Ya' (Musica Para Tu) is an album by American blues artist Taj Mahal, released in 1977. [1]
Like Never Before is an album by the American blues artist Taj Mahal, released in 1991. [1] ... (Taj Mahal) "Take a Giant Step" (Gerry Goffin, Carole King) [1] References