During his show at Santa Barbara’s Lobero Theatre on Thursday night, Taj Mahal recalled that the older-generation bluesman Lightnin’ Hopkins said in 1967, “Y’all think you got the blues now, you wait ...

Taj Mahal performing “The Blues is Alright” Sept. 5 in Lowell, Mass. Taj Mahal sheds sunshine on the blues in more ways than one. He can pare the music down to its cotton-pickin’ essence as a field ...

Over the course of his fifty-plus years of active musicology, Taj Mahal has explored all manner of roots music, but he always returns to his main influences in the blues. His delving into reggae and ...

An internationally recognized blues musician about to headline the Canton Blues Festival, Taj Mahal prefers to not be pigeonholed. We’ll let him explain. “I refuse to allow myself to be narrowcast and ...

Taj Mahal leads the experimental wing of the American blues party. Mahal can play shuffling rhythms and moaning guitar riffs with the best of them, but, like fellow bluesmen Corey Harris and Otis ...

You might say Bonnie Raitt and Taj Mahal were destined to meet, become friends and collaborate. Sure, the two modern blues/folk musicians have had wildly different careers. But as they stand together ...

Taj Mahal, the blues legend whose vibrant, worldly music encompassed African-rooted sounds of all kinds, will be inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame. Mahal, whose real name is Henry St. Clair ...

The post Taj Mahal on Grammy Noms, Generational Blues, and Swingin’ Live in Tulsa: Podcast appeared first on Consequence. Mahal’s signature style — deeply informed by blues, jazz, folk, and world ...

NEW YORK — Taj Mahal, the blues legend whose vibrant, worldly music encompassed African-rooted sounds of all kinds, will be inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame. Mahal, whose real name is Henry St.

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Taj Mahal, the blues legend whose vibrant, worldly music encompassed African-rooted sounds of all kinds, will be inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame. By The Associated Press NEW YORK — Taj Mahal, the ...