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 ...

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 ...

Legendary blues performer and marlin fishing enthusiast Taj Mahal will take a break from his international tour with Keb Mo in support of their top Billboard Blues Chart CD TajMo to do some offshore ...

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. By The Associated Press NEW YORK — Taj Mahal, the ...

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 St. Clair ...

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 ...

WALLINGFORD, CONN. - Falling back on four decades of friendship, Bonnie Raitt and Taj Mahal are at last bringing their complementary brand of blues on the road together. In the early stages of a ...

ASPEN ” In one of his oldest and best-known songs, Taj Mahal opens a classic statement of the blues: “I had the blues so bad one time it put my face in a permanent frown.” In the next line, however, ...

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 ...

Kevin Moore — known by his stage name, Keb’ Mo’ — was just a teenager when he first heard Taj Mahal play. In the late 1960s, America was in the midst of a blues revival. Thanks to acts like Taj Mahal, ...