Taj: Thinking The Blues
Jerry Gilbert, Sounds, 22 December 1973
TAJ MAHAL was dressed in full regalia when we arrived at his hotel room in Manhattan, and the room revealed signs that he and his band had been on the road for a long time, with suitcases, clothes and instruments strewn about him.
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