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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 ...

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 ...

Rooted in the blues and connected worldwide, the musician, 83, is still looking ahead. Credit... Supported by By Jon Pareles Visuals by Daniel Weiss The modern bluesman Taj Mahal will turn 84 on May ...

Mahal credits African roots and American cultural exchange spanning from Chicago to the Mississippi Delta as the foundation of his roughly 70-year music career In Taj Mahal's mind, music has never ...

Taj Mahal has been around for a while to say the least. With 40 albums in nearly 35 years of recording, one of the masters of “international blues” is back with another blend of Hawaiian and Caribbean ...

But Mahal got a solo record deal and his first four albums -- "Taj Mahal" (1967), "The Natch'l Blues" (1968) and 1969's "Giant Step" and "De Ole Folks at Home" -- mixed his originals with updated, ...