Taj Mahal’s blues are anything but revivalist or purist. He has recorded with musicians from India, Hawaii, Jamaica, Mali, ...

IT’S BEEN a good day for Taj Mahal. The Berkeley singer-musician has just learned that his latest record, “Maestro,” has received a Grammy nomination in the Contemporary Blues Album category. Even ...

The octogenarian roots master and national treasure, Taj Mahal, is still going strong. He has a 22-date tour planned for the ...

Taj Mahal: ‘Wherever the Rolling Stones went, it was happening’ - INTERVIEW: The veteran bluesman has inspired everyone from ...

Taj Mahal doesn’t just play world music; he embodies it. Rooted in American blues, his songs’ influences range from West African to Hawaiian. But they do have something in common: “The one thing I’ve ...

Blues titan Henry St. Claire Fredericks Jr., known by his stage name Taj Mahal, will play everything from banjo and ukulele to keyboards and guitar at his June 3 performance at The Refinery Charleston ...

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 ...

The great American musician, Taj Mahal (born Henry Saint Clair Fredericks), is, at heart, an essentialist. The music he loves is often the distilled essence of a genre or style, rather than the pomp ...

Taj Mahal can rightfully be called a living legend for his contributions to popular music. With a voice as instantly recognizable as Louis Armstrong, Ray Charles, or Johnny Cash, throughout his career ...

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 ...

Taj Mahal has a degree in animal husbandry and agronomy, and planned to be a farmer. Music was just something he did. "No matter what went down, music was always going to be a part of my life," the ...

Taj Mahal was not yet a blues legend when the Rolling Stones first heard him live in the mid-1960s at the Whiskey A Go Go in Los Angeles. But they immediately became avid fans of his no-nonsense ...