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TAJ

MAHAL

SWINGIN' LIVE AT THE CHURCH IN TULSA

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THE

SWINGIN'

LIVE AT THE CHURCH

IN TULSA

TAJ

MAHAL

SEXTET

LIGHTNING ROD RECORDS LRR-7039

RELEASE DATE : MARCH 8, 2024

(USA)

Musicians:
Taj Mahal – vocals, guitars, banjo, ukulele, piano
Bill Rich – bass
Kester Smith - drums
Bobby Ingano – hawaiian lap steel / electric guitar
Trey Hensley – acoustic guitar, vocals
Rob Ickes – dobro 

Tracklist:
01 Betty & Dupree 07:42
02 Mailbox Blues 04:05
03 Queen Bee 06:03
04 Lovin' in My Baby's Eyes 03:55
05 Waiting For My Papa to Come Home 03:49
06 Slow Drag 05:43
07 Sittin' on Top of the World 05:48
08 Twilight in Hawaii 05:58
09 Corrina 05:10
10 Mean Old World 09:47

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Recorded live at Leon Russell’s Shelter Records studios In Tulsa, Oklahoma.

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BILL
RICH

KESTER SMITH

BOBBY
INGANO

TREY
HENSLEY

ROB
ICKES

TAJ
MAHAL

TAJBLUES

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IN 1968 AT THE CIRCUS

THE LEGEND

Yes, Taj Mahal is a legend. Born Henry Fredericks in Harlem in 1942, at eighty-two Taj Mahal continues to record music and perform it live. As a musician he started in the sixties and his discography of more than sixty albums is the most complex interconnection between the blues and what is generically called world music. No other blues artist in history of the genre has managed to capture in his music so much eclecticism, so many diverse influences that have explored the original country blues and its direct links to other forms of musical culture. The West-African blues origins, Caribbean music, Jamaican musical roots, Zydeco, Calypso, Gospel, Jazz and Hawaiian music, all of these music are part of Taj Mahal's concept of blues. A tireless traveler, he has traveled and settled intermittently in various parts of the world, accumulating experiences and musical traditions and then transferring them to his songs. In 1964, along with Ry Cooder, he formed The Rising Sons in Los Angeles, recording an eponymous album that was not released until 1992 and that could have been the genesis of what was later defined as "Americana." The man who once dreamed of Ghandi has marked the footsteps of 20th century black music, Son House, Lightnin' Hopkins, Sonny Terry, Howlin Wolf and Muddy Waters electric blues they are all in his DNA, the West African folk of Toumani Diabaté and Ali Farka Touré, the funk of Sly Stone and George Clinton even the rock and roll of The Rolling Stones, always in the right place at the right time. "Swingin' Live at The Church in Tulsa" is Taj Mahal's twenty-sixth live album released and as always it contains plenty of reasons to listen to it, a new collection of ten songs performed majestically by this artist who still shows the magic and empathy with the audience in an inimitable and irreplaceable way.

"Queen Bee"

"Corrina"

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