Taj Mahal - The Best of Taj Mahal
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Artist: Taj MahalEdition: Music CD
Format: Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2000-09-05
Music Label: Sony
Soundtracks:
- Statesboro Blues
- Leaving Trunk
- Corinna
- Going Up To The Country, Paint My Mailbox Blue
- She Caught The Katy And Left Me A Mule To Ride
- Take A Giant Step
- Six Days On The Road
- Farther On Down The Road
- Fishing Blues
- Ain't Gwine To Whistle Dixie (Any Mo') (Live)
- You're Going To Need Somebody On Your Bond (Live)
- Cakewalk Into Town
- Oh Susanna
- Frankie And Albert
- Chevrolet
- Johnny Too Bad
- Sweet Mama Janisse (Previously Unissued Studio Recording)
Free Music Notes for The Best of Taj Mahal
Free Music Review: ok this is fantastic, now how about ...
Hit: 5 Stars
... a collection to complement this?
this album covers TJ's late 60s and early 70s. how about another collection (maybe double disk) to complement this collection - which covers his later 70s and 80s and 90s ...
The Best of Taj Mahal Poster
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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