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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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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 ...