Taj Mahal
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Taj Mahal, Steve Mann: Ash Grove, Los Angeles CA
Live Review by Pete Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 2 September 1967
Taj Mahal Back With Blue Flames Band ...
Taj Mahal: Taj Mahal (Columbia)
Review by Pete Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 4 February 1968
TAJ MAHAL, a talented blues singer who has kicked around Los Angeles for several years as a soloist and a member of the now-dead Rising ...
Report and Interview by Tom Nolan, Los Angeles Times, 18 February 1968
IT WAS A big day for me, for I had just met Andrew Oldham, the brains behind the Stones. He was very thin and he ...
16 Hours of Rock in Dismal Surroundings
Report by Philip Elwood, The San Francisco Examiner, 20 May 1968
SIXTEEN HOURS of the same thing gets to be an enervating experience even if one is a super-rock fan and many of the nation's outstanding ...
Live Review by Pete Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 26 August 1968
AT THEIR best, wthe Grateful Dead are a wondrous group and they were at their best for a weekend dance concert sponsored by Pinnacle at ...
Interview by Tom Nolan, Rolling Stone, 4 January 1969
"WHAT I'M AFRAID of," says Taj Mahal, watching the sun set on Sunset, "are these closet fascists, the guy workin' unloadin' trucks scared to death ...
Taj Mahal: The Natch'l Blues (Direction 8-63397)
Review by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 15 March 1969
AMERICAN MUSICIANS have always scored over their British musical cousins, in their ability to RELAX, and still show off their mastery of whatever medium they ...
Taj Mahal: At Last — A Welcome New Voice
Profile by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 22 March 1969
A NEW VOICE on the music scene and a very welcome one, belongs to Mr Taj Mahal a young blues singer and guitarist from Massachusetts. ...
Taj Mahal: The Natch'l Blues (Columbia CS 9698)
Review by Pete Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 23 March 1969
Monumental Album From Taj ...
Review and Interview by uncredited writer, Beat Instrumental, May 1969
IN THESE DAYS of controversy about blue men singing the whites (thank you, V. Stanshall) it's amazing just how few black men are signing the ...
Review by Ed Ward, Rolling Stone, 17 May 1969
TAJ MAHAL may not be the most authentic, the most technically proficient, or the most emotionally cathartic practitioner of the blues today, but he certainly ...
The Mind Of A Modern Bluesman: Taj Mahal
Interview by Jim Delehant, Hit Parader, September 1969
I AM A crazy swamp guy. I love swamps. Brick buildings are cool too, they have their own grotesque beauty and this is a very ...
Taj Mahal: Giant Step/De Old Folks At Home (CBS Direction S 8-63820, S 8-63821)
Review by Jerry Gilbert, Melody Maker, 22 November 1969
Mixed bag from Taj ...
Interview by Jim Delehant, Hit Parader, January 1970
JESSE EDWIN DAVIS/lead guitar ...
The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus
Report by David Dalton, Rolling Stone, 19 March 1970
The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus was an entertainment extravaganza planned and put on by the Rolling Stones in December 1968. Originally done as ...
Live Review by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 25 April 1970
ROCKERS TAKE OVER FOR A NIGHT ...
Santana, It's A Beautiful Day, Taj Mahal: Royal Albert Hall, London
Live Review by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 25 April 1970
Beautiful Day a beautiful band ...
Taj Mahal: Still One Of The Hardest Rockers
Interview by Jerry Gilbert, Melody Maker, 25 April 1970
A FANFARE of trumpets would have greeted Taj Mahal if the artist's British reception had been judged on his success. Instead he was quietly willing ...
Taj Mahal: The Real Thing (CBS)
Review by Jerry Gilbert, Sounds, 31 July 1971
FOR SOME reason it all seems to have gone wrong for Taj Mahal. ...
Taking The Music Back To The People... But Is Taj Mahal The Real Thing?
Profile and Interview by Vernon Gibbs, Sounds, 7 August 1971
ON HIS latest album (reviewed in SOUNDS last week), recorded live at the Fillmore East, Taj Mahal makes the assertive claim that he is indeed ...
Various artists: Fillmore: The Last Days (Fillmore Z3X 31390)
Review by Tom Nolan, Rolling Stone, 9 November 1972
HIS SPIRIT is omnipresent in this elaborate package. He has written extensive program notes to the handsome booklet. He is there suddenly at the beginning ...
Report and Interview by Peter Kent, New Musical Express, 3 February 1973
"I AM LOUISIANA Red and I come from behind the sun" — those words, belting out of a cheap mono record-player, introduced me to the ...
Curtis Mayfield, Taj Mahal: Philharmonic Hall, New York NY
Live Review by Ian Dove, The New York Times, 9 April 1973
Curtis Mayfeld's Soul Singing Displays His Fluency in Argot ...
Interview by 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 ...
Review by Charles Shaar Murray, New Musical Express, 18 June 1977
Taj Me In The Morning ...
Howard Johnson: He's Got His HoJo Working..
Interview by Brian Case, New Musical Express, 17 June 1978
HOWARD JOHNSON has played with everybody — from Mingus and Taj Mahal to Lennon and The Band. And he won't hear a word against his ...
Taj Mahal: Recycling the Blues
Interview by Max Bell, New Musical Express, 11 August 1979
"I'm goin to the river goin to sit down on the ground/I'm goin to the river goin to sit down on the ground/And let the ...
Live Review by Richard Cook, New Musical Express, 26 September 1981
Taj Mahal, Desperadoes: Hammersmith Odeon, London WITH VIV Stanshall confining himself to introductions, we were given two personalisations of black music, and an expected ...
Review by Max Bell, Vox, August 1991
TAJ MAHAL HASN'T BEEN HEARD in such a pristine setting since his Columbia heyday, and after too many years of his slogging for well-meaning but ...
Taj Mahal: Playing The Cosmic Blues
Retrospective and Interview by Max Bell, Vox, December 1991
BACK IN THE '60S when he was fronting the Rising Sons with Ry Cooder, they used to call Taj Mahal a cosmic intellectual blues player. ...
Retrospective and Interview by Nicholas Jennings, Eye Weekly, 18 July 1996
TAJ MAHAL was deep into the pan-African diaspora long before anyone dreamed up the term "world music." Blues, ragtime, calypso, reggae, Mandinka soul from West ...
"Radically Festive": The Rolling Stones' Rock and Roll Circus
Retrospective and Interview by Mat Snow, MOJO, November 1996
On December 10, 1968, some of the most exciting talent in rock history gathered for an event all the more legendary for having been quietly ...
Taj Mahal at Shepherd's Bush Empire, London
Live Review by Charles Shaar Murray, MOJO, September 1997
HENRY ST. CLAIR FREDERICKS named himself Taj Mahal with good reason: he's a monument who can dance with an easy grace and joyful lightness delightfully ...
The Birth Of His Blues: Taj Mahal
Review and Interview by Ben Edmonds, MOJO, November 1998
Tracks: Leaving Trunk / Statesboro Blues / Checkin' Up On My Baby / Everybody's Got To Change Sometime / E Z Rider / Dust My ...
Taj Mahal: In Progress and Motion (Columbia/Legacy)
Review by Tony Scherman, The New York Times, 29 November 1998
EMERGING IN THE late '60s as an anomaly – one of the few young black musicians to embrace the folk-blues revival – Taj Mahal flirted ...
Book Excerpt by Phil Hardy, Dave Laing, Faber Companion to 20th Century Popular Music, 2001
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Taj Mahal: A Living Edifice To The Blues
Live Review by Andy Gill, The Independent, 10 June 2004
Taj Mahal/Tinariwen, Barbican, London **** ...
see also Jesse Ed Davis
see also Rising Sons, The
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