The octogenarian roots master and national treasure, Taj Mahal, is still going strong. He has a 22-date tour planned for the ...
Taj Mahal’s blues are anything but revivalist or purist. He has recorded with musicians from India, Hawaii, Jamaica, Mali, ...
Taj Mahal: ‘Wherever the Rolling Stones went, it was happening’ - INTERVIEW: The veteran bluesman has inspired everyone from ...
Blues titan Henry St. Claire Fredericks Jr., known by his stage name Taj Mahal, will play everything from banjo and ukulele to keyboards and guitar at his June 3 performance at The Refinery Charleston ...
Taj Mahal has spent more than 40 years exploring the roots and branches of the blues. Grounded in the acoustic pre-war blues sound but drawn to the eclectic sounds of world music, he revitalized a ...
"Obliterate category," Taj Mahal told interviewer Gwen Thompkins on the Allison Miner Music Heritage Stage at the New Orleans Jazz Fest on Sunday, "and play music." That's as good a summing-up as any ...
Taj Mahal, a musician expert at many styles, is playing a Thursday concert at Atlanta's Variety Playhouse alongside his long-running Phantom Blues Band.
As legend has it, Duane Allman learned to play slide on a Coricidin pill bottle to Taj Mahal’s version of “Statesboro Blues” while sick in bed. This past Saturday night, Taj Mahal sat in with the ...
Soulful musical polymath Taj Mahal and guitar god Ry Cooder go way back. In the mid-60s, they played in Los Angeles band the Rising Sons, one of the country’s first integrated bands fusing rock and ...