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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The blues genre was alive and well at the Santa Barbara Bowl on a sultry September Saturday night. A double bill of blues innovators Bonnie Raitt and Taj Mahal nearly filled the house. A mostly mature ...
It's called the blues, but Taj Mahal and Keb' Mo' are feeling nothing but joy. The two musicians have been writing and performing music a long time, but never together -- until now. Jeffrey Brown sits ...
PORT TOWNSEND — It was the early 1960s when a teenage Henry Fredericks Jr. took on the name of one of the world’s most recognizable buildings. He chose this stage moniker as an homage to Mohandas ...
Cost: Tickets start at $78, $68 for students. More information: Visit VilarPAC.org/taj-mahal More than 50 years after his solo debut, Taj Mahal continues his legacy ...