Taj (album)

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Taj
Taj Taj Mahal Album.jpg
Studio album by
Released1987
Genre Blues
Label Gramavision
Producer Taj Mahal
Taj Mahal chronology
Going Home
(1980)
Taj
(1987)
Shake Sugaree
(1988)
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Taj is an album by American blues artist Taj Mahal. The cover photograph was by Robert Mapplethorpe.

Contents

Track listing

All tracks composed by Taj Mahal; except where indicated

  1. "Everybody is Somebody" (The Mighty Shadow)
  2. "Paradise"
  3. "Do I Love Her"
  4. "Light of the Pacific" (Toni Fonoti)
  5. "'Deed I Do"
  6. "Soothin'" (Jae Mason)
  7. "Pillow Talk" (Michael Burton, Sylvia Robinson)
  8. "Local Local Girl"
  9. "Kauai Kalypso"
  10. "French Letter" (Toni Fonoti) [1]

Personnel

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