Taj Mahal – Swingin’: Live at The Church in Tulsa (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 58:04 minutes | 1,26 GB | Genre: Blues
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Lightning Rod Records
With his latest release, Swingin’ Live at the Church in Tulsa, Taj adds to his legendary legacy with an extraordinary set recorded at the Tulsa studio best known as the home base of the late, great Leon Russell. The ten songs reach across multiple genres that he has explored in his incomparable career, and feature his long-time quartet–bassist Bill Rich, drummer Kester Smith, and guitarist/Hawaiian lap steel player Bobby Ingano–augmented by dobro player Rob Ickes and guitarist and vocalist Trey Hensley. In a career spanning seven decades and almost 50 albums, Taj Mahal has not only helped popularize and reshape the scope of the blues, but he has also personified the concept of “World Music” since years before the phrase even existed. From a base of traditional country blues, Taj has explored and incorporated reggae, Latin, R&B, Cajun, Caribbean, gospel, West African, jazz, calypso, Hawaiian slack-key, and countless other musical styles into his astonishing body of work.
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Taj Mahal, V.M. Bhatt & N. Ravikiran – Mumtaz Mahal (1995) [Reissue 2001]
PS3 Rip | SACD ISO | DSD64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 44:23 minutes | Full PNG Artwork | 2,0 GB
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Taj Mahal, a repository of the musical traditions of the West African Diaspora in the New World, teams with Hindustani wizard of the mohan vina, V.M. Bhatt and Karnatak virtuoso of the chitra vina, N. Ravikiran. Their interpretation of popular Afro-American songs drawn from various genres is a unique musical synthesis.
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Taj Mahal – Giant Steps/De Old Folks At Home (1969/2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:10:42 minutes | 761 MB | Genre: Blues
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Columbia
In less than 24 months, Taj Mahal (guitars/vocals/banjo/harmonica) had issued the equivalent of four respective long players. The electric Giant Step (1968) was released alongside the acoustic and decidedly rural De Ole Folks at Home (1968). The nine cuts on Giant Step feature support from the instrumental trio of Jessie Ed Davis (guitar/keyboards), Gary Gilmore (bass) and Chuck Blackwell (drums). They back Taj Mahal on a wide selection of covers ranging from Carole King and Gerry Goffin’s “Take a Giant Step” to the upbeat and soulful reading of the Huddie Ledbetter blues staple “Keep Your Hands off Her.” The arrangements are unique and offer the artist’s distinctive approach. Nowhere is this more evident than the practically jovial mid-tempo “Good Morning Little Schoolgirl” or the freewheeling abandon that is brought to the 18-wheeler anthem “Six Days on the Road,” recalling the version of “Ain’t That a Lot of Love” from Taj Mahal’s preceding effort Natch’l Blues (1968). Additionally, Blind Willie Johnson’s “You’re Gonna Need Somebody on Your Bond” stands out with a strong and soaring gospel-flavoured score. Giant Step concludes with “Bacon Fat,” a number attributed here via Garth Hudson and Robbie Robertson of the Band. That said, it may be better-known from the man they called Mr. Rhythm, Andre Williams, whose scattered down-home spoken interludes punctuate his February 1957 Top 10 R&B hit – which incidentally was created under the working title “Diddle, Diddle Womp, Womp.” Parties searching for an apt introduction when discovering Taj Mahal’s voluminous catalogue are encouraged to consider Giant Step as a highly recommended reference point. ~ AllMusic Review by Lindsay Planer
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Taj Mahal & Keb’ Mo’ – TajMo (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 45:24 minutes | 525 MB | Genre: Blues
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Concord Records
TajMo marks a timely convergence of the talents of two unique American artists who’ve already built iconoclastic individual legacies that have extended and expanded blues traditions into adventurous new territory. The collaboration brings out the best in both artists, with the pair merging their distinctive voices, personalities and guitar styles to create vibrant, immediate music that’s firmly rooted in tradition yet ruled by a playful sense of adventure. The album features guest appearances by Sheila E., Joe Walsh, Lizz Wright and Bonnie Raitt, who lends her voice to a distinctive cover of John Mayer’s anthemic ‘Waiting on the World to Change’.
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Taj Mahal – The Hidden Treasures Of Taj Mahal 1969-1973 (2012/2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:17:26 minutes | 847 MB | Genre: Blues Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Columbia – Legacy
Harlem folkie wonder-cum-Chicago Blues badass Taj Mahal gets the legend treatment for his 70th birthday: Columbia has decided to honor the singer/songwriter/storytellers back pages with a hidden treasures release. Its a long, sweaty affair. Underlying it all, and no matter the kind of music hes playing, when Mahal sings he comes on like the black Bob Dylan: unmannered, guttural, loose but bold, toying with beginnings and endings of lines, at once interpretive of the masters but unlike anything heard before. If you prefer your Soul music with some gristle, and maybe fried in some -Bacon Fat,î then these rarities from early-era Taj is just the ticket.
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Taj Mahal – Giant Steps/De Old Folks At Home (Remastered) (1969/2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:10:42 minutes | 1,41 GB | Genre: Blues
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Columbia
Giant Step/De Ole Folks at Home is the third studio album by American blues artist Taj Mahal. A double album, the first disc (Giant Step) is electric, while the second (De Ole Folks at Home) is acoustic. Esquire magazine included this album at number 27 on its list of “The 75 Albums Every Man Should Own”.
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Taj Mahal – Savoy (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 58:36 minutes | 1,18 GB | Genre: Blues
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Stony Plain Records
Taj Mahal can rightfully be called a living legend for his contributions to popular music.
With a voice as instantly recognizable as Louis Armstrong, Ray Charles, or Dr. John, Taj Mahal has throughout his career pushed the envelope of American music forward by incorporating sounds from the Caribbean, Africa, traditional blues and jazz. He has won 3 Grammys from 15 nominations, was inducted into the Blues Foundation Hall of Fame, and presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Americana Music Association. With ‘Savoy’, Taj takes a new direction in his musical journey, exploring classics from the American songbook with his good friend and acclaimed record producer John Simon, whose resume includes producing classic albums by The Band, Leonard Cohen, Gordon Lightfoot and Blood Sweat & Tears. ‘Savoy’ is the realization of a musical collaboration they had been planning for decades, finally locking in the studio time to make it happen in August 2022. Recorded with the hottest musicians in San Francisco, ‘Savoy’ is a loving throwback to the sounds of the swing jazz big band era, titled as a tribute to Harlem’s Savoy Ballroom where the music composed by the likes of Duke Ellington, Louis Jordan, George Gershwin and Louis Armstrong was performed by a who’s who of iconic artists, and now brought back to life by the one and only Taj Mahal.
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Taj Mahal, Ry Cooder – GET ON BOARD (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 44:33 minutes | 511 MBGenre: Blues
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Nonesuch
Taj Mahal and Ry Cooder have both made careers out of covering classic tunes from the canons of early blues, gospel, jazz, country, and soul music. As septuagenarians they can fall into these modes by instinct alone. Here these two living encyclopedias of American music (and former bandmates in the Rising Sons, a short-lived Los Angeles blues rock band circa 1965) have recorded a loose and fun jam session, revisiting classics from the catalogs of Reverend Gary Davis and the epic blues partnership of Brownie McGhee & Sonny Terry. Rather than straight covers though, Cooder and Mahal—in the studio together for the first time since 1968—put their decades of experience to work, with both singing on most tunes and adding spontaneous drums and percussion from Cooder’s son, Joachim, throughout. Although this is a mostly acoustic guitar and voice affair, Ry Cooder adds electric guitar parts to several tunes including the opener “My Baby Done Changed the Lock on the Door” and an oddly reverberant and round-toned, “Packing Up Getting Ready To Go.” Recorded by Martin Pradler at Temple of Leaves in Altadena, CA. and Wireland in Chatsworth, CA, the only flaw in this project is that is was recorded as Mahal says, “old school” in less-than-ideal conditions “in the front parlor of a fine n’ vintage welcoming old home!” This results in a recording quality which is often distant and unbalanced. The McGhee/Terry classic, “Pick a Bale of Cotton” (“jump down, turn around, pick a bale of cotton”) gets a snappy, gently rocking’ take while “Drinkin’ Wine Spo-Dee-O-Dee” (written by McGhee’s brother, Stick) with Cooder on slide guitar and Mahal singing and playing harmonica gets appropriately funky and low down. Mahal does his best barrelhouse piano imitation on “Deep Sea Diver.” This set’s best-known tune, “The Midnight Special” gets a group singalong led by Mahal’s harmonica. The closer, Mississippi John Hurt’s “I Shall Not Be Moved” is a just-right finale to an easygoing set where ambition is sidelined in favor of heartfelt results. It’s all what Mahal calls “Big! Big! Big fun … loose ‘n’ tight, crazy ’bout the/that rhythm, ’cause it’s ragged but right!” An album cover design reminiscent of original bare bones blues albums of the late ’50s/early ’60s completes this salute to disappearing but still vital American roots music. – Robert Baird
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Taj Mahal – Taj Mahal (1968/2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time – 33:07 minutes | 698 MB | Genre: Blues
Studio Master, Official Digital Download – Source: HDTracks | Artwork: Front cover | © Columbia
Taj Mahal brings old and new sounds to blues in his 1968 debut. Taj Mahal embraces his virtuosity on the guitar and sets the foundation for the future of his unique interpretations of the genre. (more…)
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