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Album

River Of Love

Label: Private Music
Released: 2001

Album

Then & Now

Label: Postcards
Released: 2022
Track listing: Hambone; Big Kneed Gal; King Porter Stomp; You Don’T Know What Love Is; Rambler; Fishin’ Blues; Nette; Tunk; Law Years; Nubian Stomp.

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Dot Com Blues

Label: Verve Music Group
Released: 2000
Track listing: Only in It for the Money; 8 Counts for Rita; Strut; C.C. Rider; I Just Wanna Make Love to You; Mood Indigo; Over and Over; Three O'Clock Blues; Dot Com Blues; Mr. Johnson; Tuition Blues; Since I Met You Baby.

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Kulanjan

Label: Hannibal Records
Released: 2000
Track listing: 1. Queen Bee 2.Tunkaranke 3.Ol' Georgie Buck 4.Kulanjan 5.Fanta 6.Guede Man Na 7.Catfish Blues 8.K'an Ben 9.Take This Hammer 10. Atlanta Kaira 11. Mississippi-Mali Blues 12. SaharaPersonnelTaj Mahal - vocals, guitar, piano (5); Toumani Diabate - kora; Kassemady Diabate - vocals (2,4, 5,6,8,10, 12), guitar (8); Ramatou Diakite - vocals (1,6,, 9, 10, 12); Bassekou Kouyate - ngoni, bass ngoni; Dougouye Koulibaly - kamalengoni, bolon (6,12); Lasana Diabate - balafon; Ballake Sissoko - kora (3,6,7,9,10)

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Taj Mahal and Toumani Diabate: Kulanjan

Read "Kulanjan" reviewed by Ronan Abayawickrema


Like the 1997 release Sacred Island, Kulanjan sees Taj Mahal blending the blues with ethnic folk music. While the earlier album explored the music of Hawaii, however, here Taj and the Malian kora player Toumani Diabate seek to reveal the connections between the blues and the music of Western Mali. And these connections are apparent from ...

Album

Crystal Clear

Label: Private Music
Released: 1999

Album

Sacred Island

Label: Windham Hill Records
Released: 1999

Album

Blue Light Boogie

Label: Private Music
Released: 1999

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Taj Mahal: Blue Light Boogie

Read "Blue Light Boogie" reviewed by Ed Kopp


Blue Light Boogie combines songs Taj Mahal recorded for various multi-artist tribute albums along with some cuts lifted from the bluesman’s ‘90s releases on Private Music. The latter are hardly the best selections Taj recorded for his label, they do demonstrate the eclectic talents and considerable soul of one of America’s best blues talents. Blue Light ...

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Taj Mahal and the Hula Blues Band: Sacred Island

Read "Sacred Island" reviewed by Ed Kopp


Former resident of the Hawaiian island of Kauai, Taj Majal is one of the most versatile bluesmen around, having tackled country blues, R&B, jazz, gospel, reggae and more on his 37 albums. On Sacred Island, Taj teams up with some veteran Hawaiian musicians to blend blues, traditional Hawaiian music and reggae. This is a fine eclectic ...


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