Taj (Taj Mahal Album)
Encyclopedia
Taj 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
- "Everybody Is Somebody"
- "Paradise"
- "Do I Love Her"
- "Light of the Pacific"
- "'Deed I Do'Deed I Do"Deed I Do" is a 1926 jazz standard composed by Fred Rose with lyrics by Walter Hirsch. It was introduced by vaudeville performer S. L. Stambaugh and popularized by Ben Bernie's recording. It was recorded by influential clarinetist and bandleader Benny Goodman as his debut recording in December...
" - "Soothin'"
- "Pillow Talk"
- "Local Local Girl"
- "Kauai Kalypso"
- "French Letter"
Musicians
- Taj Mahal - Acoustic and Electric Guitars, bass, percussion, keyboards, lead and background vocals
- Jeanette Acosta - synthesizer
- Wayne Henderson - keyboards
- Ray Fitzpatrick - bass, percussion
- Inshirah - Congas, percussion
- Larry Mcdonald - congas, percussion
- Babatunde Olatunji - djembe, congas, shekere, percussion
- Ralph McDonald - congas, tambourine, percussion
- Robert Greenidge - steel drums, percussion
- Ozzie Williams - drums, DBX drum programming
- Kester Smith - drums
- Chris Sisson - nylon stringed Spanish guitar
- Tony Jones - electric bass, electric guitar
- Fred Lunt - steel guitar
- Jessie "Ed" Davis - lead guitar
- Kenny Lee Lewis - rhythm guitar
- Reggie Lucas - guitar
- Rudy Costa - alto sax
- Ron Brown - tenor sax
- Fernando Pullum - trumpet
- Larry Gittens - trumpet
- Garnett Brown - trombone
- Ben-Zamin (Duane) - trombone
- Melody McCully - background vocals
- Pamela Vincent - background vocals
- Joyce Wilson - background vocals