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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 ...

SEATTLE, WASH — It's a tradition that goes back so far, even the man who started it isn't sure how it began. "To tell you the truth I don't know. It just seems that all of a sudden at the end of the ...

The super-eclectic Taj Mahal performs Sunday, Sept. 25 at 8 p.m. when he returns to The Pabst Theatre. His style is closest to country blues, but includes Caribbean, Hawaiian, Latin and African sounds ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Renowned vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Taj Mahal has for decades enriched the blues canon with his inventive blend of world influences with the more traditional sounds of country, rock, R&B, and ...