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Taj Mahal: Maestro
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Taj Mahal with Ben Harper, Jack Johnson, Angelique Kidjo, Los Lobos, Ziggy Marley & others. |
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Heads Up |
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CD |
| Runtime/Release Date |
57'35/2008 |
| Label Number |
3164 |
| Daedalus Item Code |
89636 |
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| Description |
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(2009 Grammy Nominee for Best Contemporary Blues Album) America’s reigning all-around bluesman, Taj Mahal distills 40 years of performing into this 12-track set—his first U.S. release in five years. Mahal’s wellspring of material comes not just from the Mississippi Delta, but from Appalachia, Africa, the Hawaiian Islands, Europe, and the Caribbean. With a welter of top colleagues joining the proceedings, the tunes include Otis Redding’s “Scratch My Back,” Fats Domino’s “Hello, Josephine,” and the reggae-flavored “Never Let You Go,” cowritten and sung by Taj and his daughter Deva (backed by Latin rockers Los Lobos). Ben Harper joins in on his “Dust Me Down,” Jack Johnson shares vocals on Mahal’s soulful “Further on Down the Road,” and Ziggy Marley and his six-piece band evoke the islands with “Black Man, Brown Man.” Afro-European phenomenon Angélique Kidjo appears on “Zanzibar,” as well as Toumani Diabaté on kora, a 21-string harp from West Africa. The spirited finale is the Willie Dixon/Bo Diddley classic “Diddy Wah Diddy.”
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