Happy Just to Be Like I Am
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Happy Just to Be Like I Am is an album
by American
blues
artist Taj Mahal
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Album
An album is a collection of recordings, released as a single package on gramophone record, cassette, compact disc, or via digital distribution. The word derives from the Latin word for list .Vinyl LP records have two sides, each comprising one half of the album...
by American
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
blues
Blues
Blues is the name given to both a musical form and a music genre that originated in African-American communities of primarily the "Deep South" of the United States at the end of the 19th century from spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts and chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads...
artist Taj Mahal
Taj Mahal (musician)
Henry Saint Clair Fredericks , who uses the stage name Taj Mahal, is an American Grammy Award winning blues musician. He incorporates elements of world music into his music...
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Track listing
All tracks composed by Taj Mahal; except where indicated- "Happy Just to Be Like I Am" (3:49)
- "Stealin'" (Gus CannonGus CannonGus Cannon was an American blues musician, who helped to popularize jug bands in the 1920s and 1930s. There is doubt about his birth year; his tombstone gives the date as 1874....
) (6:58) - "Oh, Susannah" (Traditional) (5:19)
- "Eighteen Hammers" (5:45)
- "Tomorrow May Not Be Your Day" (4:14)
- "Chevrolet" (Ed Young/Lonnie Young) (2:45)
- "West Indian Revelation (AKA West Indian Reservation)" (6:09)
- "Black Spirit Boogie" (7:10)
Personnel
- Taj Mahal - guitar, steel guitar, mandolin
- Bill Rich - bass
- Howard JohnsonHoward Johnson (jazz musician)Howard Lewis Johnson in Montgomery, Alabama, is an American jazz musician known mainly for his work on tuba and baritone saxophone, although he also plays the bass clarinet, trumpet and other reed instruments....
- baritone saxophone - Jesse Ed DavisJesse Ed DavisJesse Edwin Davis was an American guitarist. He was well regarded as a session artist. His death in 1988 is attributed to a drug overdose.-Biography:...
- guitar - Earl McIntyre - trombone
- Andy NarellAndy NarellAndy Narell is a musician and composer specialized in the steelpan.-Biography:He was born in New York City and moved to California in his teens. He took up the steelpan at a very young age in Queens, New York...
- steel drums - John SimonJohn Simon (record producer)John Simon is an American musician, record producer, and composer. He is best known for his work with The Band as producer and musician on Music from Big Pink and The Band.-Biography:...
- piano - Hoshal Wright - guitar
- Kwasi "Rocky" Dzidzornu - conga
- Bob Stewart - flugelhorn
- Joseph Daley - tuba
- James Charles Otey - drums