Sweet Relief Musician Fund has announced its annual benefit concert, which will draw on the five-decade legacy and songs from ...

Van Morrison, E Street Band guitarist Stevie Van Zandt, George Thorogood and Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers' Mike Campbell ...

In 2017 blues legend Taj Mahal and Keb' Mo' recorded TajMo, (Concord Records), which won the Grammy for Best Contemporary Blues Album. Eight years later, the two follow up with Room On The Porch, ...

It’s hard to imagine a more eclectic musician than Taj Mahal. In a storied career that spans well over 55 years, Taj, who celebrated his 80th birthday in 2022, has constantly defied any and every ...

Like many other music aficionados, I first heard of guitarist Jesse Ed Davis when I read the liner notes to Taj Mahal’s 1968 albums Taj Mahal and Natch’l Blues. I first saw Davis in the 1971 film ...

Over the course of his fifty-plus years of active musicology, Taj Mahal has explored all manner of roots music, but he always returns to his main influences in the blues. His delving into reggae and ...

Taj Mahal performing “The Blues is Alright” Sept. 5 in Lowell, Mass. Taj Mahal sheds sunshine on the blues in more ways than one. He can pare the music down to its cotton-pickin’ essence as a field ...

It’s been a long time so it’s hard to remember exactly, but some time in the winter of 1970-71, Taj Mahal played the Houston Music Hall. Between 1968 and 1971, he had put out five albums and become a ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Maybe it's the panama hat. Or the diamond earring. Or perhaps it is the eight-stringed ukulele on which he does constant little runs. Taj Mahal looks every bit the part of the U.S.