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Henry St. Claire Fredericks Jr. (born May 17, 1942), better known by his stage name Taj Mahal, is an American blues musician. He plays the guitar, piano, banjo, harmonica, and many other instruments, [1] often incorporating elements of world music into his work.
Rising Sons was an American folk-rock band formed in Los Angeles in 1965. [2] Their initial career was short-lived, but the group found retrospective fame for launching the careers of singer Taj Mahal and guitarist Ry Cooder.
The Real Thing is a double live album by Taj Mahal, released in 1971. It was recorded on February 13, 1971, at the Fillmore East in New York City and features Taj Mahal backed by a band that includes four tuba players.
Davis joined Taj Mahal and played guitar and piano on Mahal's first four albums. He played slide, lead and rhythm, country and even jazz during his three-year stint with Mahal. In a 1967 gig, Mahal played with a young Duane Allman in attendance, and Davis' slide guitar playing on Statesboro Blues that night would ignite Allman's interest in the ...
Taj Mahal is the debut album by American guitarist and vocalist Taj Mahal. Recorded in 1967, it contains blues songs by Sleepy John Estes , Robert Johnson , and Sonny Boy Williamson II reworked in contemporary blues- and folk-rock styles. [ 1 ]
No Depression ' s Grant Britt stated in a features on Mahal that, "the structures stay close to the originals, but Taj’s wheelbarrow-full-of-rocks-in-a-washing-machine vocals make them unique". [2] At PopMatters, Steve Horowitz rated this release an 8 out of 10 for being "a lively record that snaps like a pair of hipster’s digits". [8]
Swingin' Live at the Church in Tulsa was an editor's pick in Spill Magazine, where Ljubinko Zivkovic rated it 9 out of 10, praising the sextet of musicians and continuing that the music is "the good old blues in its purest (electric) form and that mastery that has not left him so far shines, both in his, the band's playing and Taj Mahal's ...
Taj Mahal - lead vocals, dobro, harmonica; Bonnie Raitt - additional vocal on 6; Dean Parks - lead guitar on 5; Eric Clapton - lead guitar on 4 and 13; Joe McGrath, John Parks, Johnny Lee Schell - guitar; Mike Campbell - 12-string guitar on 1; John Porter - lead, acoustic and slide guitar; James "Hutch" Hutchinson - bass guitar on 1