Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The title of Taj Mahal’s just-announced album, due out May 1, is “Time,” a simple concept that the blues-folk-soul-reggae artist ...

81-year-old American roots music legend Taj Mahal is readying a new album. Swingin’ Live at the Church in Tulsa pays tribute to the late great Leon Russell and the contributions of the Tulsa music ...

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 ...

Taj Mahal: ‘Wherever the Rolling Stones went, it was happening’ - INTERVIEW: The veteran bluesman has inspired everyone from Bob Marley to John Belushi. Backstage in Los Angeles, he tells Kevin E G ...

I wanted to make today's Song of the Day a tribute, in some way, to Super Bowl champions the Giants. It's a bit of a stretch, perhaps, but this is what I came up with: blues-rocker Taj Mahal's warm, ...

Taj Mahal has spent more than 40 years exploring the roots and branches of the blues. Grounded in the acoustic pre-war blues sound but drawn to the eclectic sounds of world music, he revitalized a ...

Music can make your day. One song playing at the right moment—perhaps with the right cup of coffee in your favorite mug, and the sun coming through the window—can really make life worth living. We ...

Nostalgic collections of roots-music songs have burgeoned through the holed-up pandemic years. Three new albums find history-aware performers looking back, in unpredictable ways: Taj Mahal and Ry ...