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, ...

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 ...

It's called the blues, but Taj Mahal and Keb' Mo' are feeling nothing but joy. The two musicians have been writing and performing music a long time, but never together -- until now. Jeffrey Brown sits ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

WALLINGFORD, CONN. - Falling back on four decades of friendship, Bonnie Raitt and Taj Mahal are at last bringing their complementary brand of blues on the road together. In the early stages of a ...

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 ...

Jorma Kaukonen, the legendary guitarist who helped give the Jefferson Airplane its unique sound, was wandering around the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame last month in Cleveland, yet not a soul recognized ...