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 ...

ASPEN ” In one of his oldest and best-known songs, Taj Mahal opens a classic statement of the blues: “I had the blues so bad one time it put my face in a permanent frown.” In the next line, however, ...

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 ...

Springfield's Taj Mahal has earned five nominations from the Blues Foundation for Blues Music Awards, the genre's annual ceremony that celebrates the blues. Mahal has been nominated for Best Acoustic ...

Performers Taj Mahal and Patty Griffin, UCSB Arts & Lectures will present Taj Mahal and Patty Griffin, 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 17 at the Arlington ...

It was a TajMo kind of night, as music veterans Taj Mahal and Keb’ Mo' were the big winners at the 39th annual Blues Music Awards. The awards — presented by the Memphis-based Blues Foundation — were ...

The blues genre was alive and well at the Santa Barbara Bowl on a sultry September Saturday night. A double bill of blues innovators Bonnie Raitt and Taj Mahal nearly filled the house. A mostly mature ...

TajMo. Just the word itself sounds cool, but what it stands for is even more exquisite. Grammy winners Taj Mahal and Keb’ Mo’ will perform together at the Gaillard on Sunday. The “blues titans” and ...

Kevin Moore — known by his stage name, Keb’ Mo’ — was just a teenager when he first heard Taj Mahal play. In the late 1960s, America was in the midst of a blues revival. Thanks to acts like Taj Mahal, ...

But Mahal got a solo record deal and his first four albums — "Taj Mahal" (1967), "The Natch'l Blues" (1968) and 1969's "Giant Step" and "De Ole Folks at Home" — mixed his originals with updated, often ...

The Blues Foundation hosted the 39th annual Blues Music Awards last night in Memphis, TN, and among the night’s winners were TajMo collaborators Taj Mahal and Keb’ Mo’, who garnered seven awards ...

There is an African proverb that says "If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together." The intimacy and the dynamics of the duet setting have long appealed to virtuoso guitarist ...