TAJ MAHAL Taj Mahal LP COLUMBIA 1968 US orig CS 9579 w/RY COODER-JESSE ED DAVIS
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TAJ MAHAL
with JESSE EDWIN DAVIS, GARY GILMORE, CHUCK BLACKWELL, RYLAND P. COODER,
BILL BOATMAN, JAMES THOMAS, SANFORD KONIKOFF
One of the most prominent figures in late 20th century blues, singer/multi-instrumentalist Taj Mahal played an enormous role in revitalizing and preserving traditional acoustic blues. Not content to stay within that realm, Mahal soon broadened his approach, taking a musicologist's interest in a multitude of folk and roots music from around the world -- reggae and other Caribbean folk, jazz, gospel, R&B, zydeco, various West African styles, Latin, even Hawaiian. The African-derived heritage of most of those forms allowed Mahal to explore his own ethnicity from a global perspective and to present the blues as part of a wider musical context. Yet while he dabbled in many different genres, he never strayed too far from his laid-back country blues foundation. Blues purists naturally didn't have much use for Mahal's music, and according to some of his other detractors, his multi-ethnic fusions sometimes came off as indulgent, or overly self-conscious and academic. Still, Mahal's concept was vindicated in the '90s, when a cadre of young bluesmen began to follow his lead -- both acoustic revivalists (Keb' Mo', Guy Davis) and eclectic bohemians (Corey Harris, Alvin Youngblood Hart)
"TAJ MAHAL"
1968 LP COLUMBIA RECORDS STEREO CS 9579
PRINTED IN USA ORIGINAL PRESSING
"360 SOUND" STEREO "TWO EYES" LABEL
SINGLE SLEEVE
THICK CARDBOARD COVER (AMERICAN STYLE)
NOTES: Rights Society listed as BMI on all tracks except Side B, Track 2.
No. 5 printed on back cover in the bottom right corner
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LABEL: COLUMBIA - RED "360 SOUND + TWO EYES" LABEL - BLACK & WHITE TEXT
Catalog on cover: (spine) CS 9579
Catalog on labels: CS 9579 (XSM 119802) / CS 9579 (XSM 119803)
Matrix / Runout (Side A, Stamped): o XSM119802-1C
Matrix / Runout (Side B, Stamped): o XSM119803-1C
On labels: rim text reads <®"Columbia" Marcas Reg. Printed in U.S.A.>
On back cover: Notes by Tom Nolan
Produced by David Rubinson
Photo by Guy Webster; Designed by Ron Coro
Manufactured by Columbia Records/CBS, Inc.............Printed in U.S.A.
tracklisting
Side 1: LEAVING TRUNK - STATESBORO BLUES
CHECKIN' UP ON MY BABY - EVERYBODY'S GOT TO CHANGE SOMETIME
Side 2: E Z RIDER - DUST MY BROOM - DIVING DUCK BLUES - THE CELEBRATED WALKIN' BLUES
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RECORD EX but (please, read above description)
SLEEVE VG+ but (please, see pictures and read above description)
Taj Mahal's debut album was a startling statement in its time and has held up remarkably well. Recorded in August of 1967, it was as hard and exciting a mix of old and new blues sounds as surfaced on record in a year when even a lot of veteran blues artists (mostly at the insistence of their record labels) started turning toward psychedelia. The guitar virtuosity, embodied in Taj Mahal's slide work (which had the subtlety of a classical performance), Jesse Ed Davis's lead playing, and rhythm work by Ry Cooder and Bill Boatman, is of the neatly stripped-down variety that was alien to most records aiming for popular appeal, and the singer himself approached the music with a startling mix of authenticity and youthful enthusiasm. The whole record is a strange and compelling amalgam of stylistic and technical achievements -- filled with blues influences of the 1930s and 1940s, but also making use of stereo sound separation and the best recording technology. The result was numbers like Sleepy John Estes' "Diving Duck Blues," with textures resembling the mix on the early Cream albums, while "The Celebrated Walkin' Blues" (even with Cooder's animated mandolin weaving its spell on one side of the stereo mix) has the sound of a late '40s Chess release by Muddy Waters. Blind Willie McTell ("Statesboro Blues") and Robert Johnson ("Dust My Broom") are also represented, in what had to be one of the most quietly, defiantly iconoclastic records of 1968...(AllMusic)
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