Shoutin' in Key

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Shoutin' in Key
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Live album by
Released2000
RecordedNovember 9–11, 1998
Genre Blues
Length55:40
Label Hannibal
Producer Tony Braunagel
Taj Mahal chronology
The Best of the Private Years
(2000)
Shoutin' in Key
(2000)
Sing a Happy Song: The Warner Bros. Recordings
(2001)
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Shoutin' in Key is a live album by American blues artist Taj Mahal.

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Honky Tonk" (Billy Butler, Bill Doggett, Clifford Scott, Shep Shepherd) – 6:19
  2. "EZ Rider" (Taj Mahal) – 3:20
  3. "Ain't That a Lot of Love" (Homer Banks, Willa Dean Parker) – 3:10
  4. "Ev'ry Wind (In the River)" (Parker B. Dollaghan, Richard G. Feldman, Mahal) – 5:14
  5. "Stranger in My Own Hometown" (Percy Mayfield) – 2:55
  6. "Woulda Coulda Shoulda" (Mahal) – 3:43
  7. "Leaving Trunk" (John Estes) – 6:06
  8. "Rain from the Sky" (Delroy Wilson) – 3:28
  9. "Mailbox Blues" (Mahal) – 3:49
  10. "Cruisin'" (Johnny Lee Schell, Mahal, Tony Braunagel) –3:47
  11. "Corrina" (traditional, arr. Mahal, Jesse Ed Davis) – 3:44
  12. "Hoochi Coochie Coo" (Hank Ballard, Billy Myles) – 3:39
  13. "Sentidos Dulce" (Mahal) – 6:26 [1]

Personnel

Phantom Blues Band

Production

Recorded at The Mint, Los Angeles, November 9—11, 1998. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 "Shoutin' in Key: Taj Mahal & the Phantom Blues Band Live - Taj Mahal | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic". AllMusic . Retrieved May 15, 2021.
  2. 1 2 "Shoutin' in Key: Taj Mahal & the Phantom Blues Band Live - Taj Mahal | Credits | AllMusic". AllMusic . Retrieved May 15, 2021.