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| The Best of Taj Mahal, Volume 1 | ||||
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| Released | 1981 [1] | |||
| Genre | Blues, electric blues | |||
| Length | 42:20 | |||
| Language | English | |||
| Label | Columbia | |||
| Producer | Taj Mahal | |||
| Taj Mahal chronology | ||||
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The Best of Taj Mahal, Volume 1 is a blues compilation album by American Taj Mahal. [1]
Taj Mahal is an American blues musician, singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, actor, and film composer. He plays the guitar, piano, banjo, harmonica, and many other instruments, often incorporating elements of world music into his work. Mahal has done much to reshape the definition and scope of blues music over the course of his more than 50-year career by fusing it with nontraditional forms, including sounds from the Caribbean, Africa, India, Hawaii, and the South Pacific.
Señor Blues is a 1997 studio album by blues musician Taj Mahal, featuring a cover of James Brown's "Think". It won the Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Blues Album at the 40th Grammy Awards.
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Best of the Blues Brothers is the fourth and final Blues Brothers album released before John Belushi's death in 1982. It is the first compilation album by the band and it was released by Atlantic Records on November 30, 1981. Along with tracks from the first three albums, Briefcase Full of Blues, The Blues Brothers: Music from the Soundtrack and Made in America, it includes unreleased live versions of "Everybody Needs Somebody to Love", "Rubber Biscuit", and a new song, "Expressway to Your Heart". The album was remixed by Steve Jordan and Donald “Duck” Dunn. Belushi’s wife, Judith Jacklin, designed the sleeve.
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.
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Recycling the Blues & Other Related Stuff is the fifth American blues studio album by Taj Mahal. Tracks 1-7 were recorded live; tracks 8-11 are studio recordings. The album cover shows a photograph of Taj Majal and Mississippi John Hurt taken by David Gahr backstage at the Newport Folk Festival in July, 1964.
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Like Never Before is an album by American blues artist Taj Mahal, which was released in October 1991.
Taj's Blues is a compilation album by American blues artist Taj Mahal.
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The Best of Taj Mahal is an album by American blues artist Taj Mahal, released in 2000.
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Shoutin' in Key is a live album by American blues artist Taj Mahal.
The Essential Taj Mahal is a "best of" album by American blues artist Taj Mahal. AllMusic stated that "The Essential Taj Mahal pulls together the bluesman's Columbia, Warner, Gramavision Private Music, and Hannibal labels' recordings, making it the first truly cross-licensed compilation of his work.
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Jontavious Willis is an American country blues singer, guitarist, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist. Willis has released two albums to date, with his sophomore effort, Spectacular Class, debuting at number 12 in the Billboard Blues Albums Chart in May 2019.
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