Taj Mahal

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Artist: Taj Mahal
Edition: Music CD
Format: Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2000-09-05
Music Label: Sony
Soundtracks:
  1. Leaving Truck
  2. Statesboro Blues
  3. Checkin' Up On My Baby
  4. Everybody's Got To Change Sometime
  5. E Z Rider
  6. Dust My Broom
  7. Diving Duck Blues
  8. The Celebrated Walkin' Blues

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Free Music Review: Best Blues Album of All-Time!!!
Hit: 5 Stars

When I first heard Taj Mahal's debut album in the late 60's, I was simply astounded at the sheer quality of this music. There is not one bit of filler on this album, which remains an incredible listen nearly 40 years later. This album, more than any other album I ever bought, had the biggest influence of my life. Prior to this album, I had never been into pure blues. But, this album changed that forever, as I now have a personal music library filled with dozens and dozens of great blues albums. Backed by some great musicians, including guitarists, Ry Cooder and Jesse Ed Davis, this album never lets up, from the opening song "Leaving Truck" to the closing number "The Celebrated Walkin' Blues". This album changed my musical horizons and remains one of my most treasured albums. Taj Mahal made a lot of great albums, but he never made one better than this.

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Taj Mahal's been chasing the blues around the world for years, but rarely with the passion, energy, and clarity he brought to his first three albums. Taj Mahal, The Natch'l Blues and The Real Thing are the sound of the artist, who was born in 1942, defining himself and his music. On his self-titled 1967 debut, he not only honors the sound of the Delta masters with his driving National steel guitar and hard vocal shout, but ladles in elements of rock and country with the help of guitarists Ry Cooder and the late Jessie Ed Davis. This approach is reinforced and broadened by The Natch'l Blues. What's most striking is Mahal's way of making even the oldest themes sound as if they're part of a new era. Not just through the vigor of his playing--relentlessly propulsive, yet stripped down compared with the six-string ornamentations of the original masters of country blues--but through his singing, which possesses a knowing insouciance distinct to post-Woodstock counterculture hipsters. It's the voice of an informed young man who knows he's offering something deep to an equally hip and receptive audience.

Soon, Mahal turned his multicultural vision of the blues even further outward. The live 1971 set, The Real Thing, finds him still carrying the Mississippi torch, while adding overt elements of jazz and Afro-Caribbean music to its flame. But it's overreaching. His band sounds under-rehearsed, and the arrangements seem more like rough outlines. Nonetheless, these albums set the stage for Mahal's career. (For a condensed version, try the fine The Best of Taj Mahal.) Today, he continues to make fine fusion albums, like 1999's Kulanjan, with Malian kora master Toumani Diabate, and less exciting but still eclectic recordings with his Phantom Blues Band. --Ted Drozdowski

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