Taj Mahal performing “The Blues is Alright” Sept. 5 in Lowell, Mass. Taj Mahal sheds sunshine on the blues in more ways than one. He can pare the music down to its cotton-pickin’ essence as a field ...

The Vancouver Folk Music Festival has announced the first artist of its 2022 lineup, and it's a legend. Blues great Taj Mahal will bring his Grammy-winning, 79-year-old self to the much-loved event, ...

It’s been a long time so it’s hard to remember exactly, but some time in the winter of 1970-71, Taj Mahal played the Houston Music Hall. Between 1968 and 1971, he had put out five albums and become a ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Taj Mahal, the blues legend whose vibrant, worldly music encompassed African-rooted sounds of all kinds, will be inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame. Mahal, whose real name is Henry ...

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, often ...

The post Taj Mahal on Grammy Noms, Generational Blues, and Swingin’ Live in Tulsa: Podcast appeared first on Consequence. Mahal’s signature style — deeply informed by blues, jazz, folk, and world ...

Over four decades, U.S. folk and blues veteran Taj Mahal has translated his deep African roots into such great world-music-and-blues crossover albums as the Grammy-winning Kulanjan, a collaboration ...

Taj Mahal may be the worldliest musician the blues genre has ever produced. His life has been a 50 year journey to take the blues to every corner of the world while absorbing different cultures into ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Maybe it's the panama hat. Or the diamond earring. Or perhaps it is the eight-stringed ukulele on which he does constant little runs. Taj Mahal looks every bit the part of the U.S.

Iconic ‘80s duo Pat Benatar & Neil Giraldo will perform everyone’s favorite hits at 7:00 p.m. on February 4th. In addition, ...

NEW YORK — Taj Mahal, the blues legend whose vibrant, worldly music encompassed African-rooted sounds of all kinds, will be inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame. “I’m very happy that a group of my ...