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Taj Mahal: In Progress and Motion (Columbia/Legacy)

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 with rock stardom but quickly proved himself too much of a maverick to pursue the bottom line.

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