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Taj Mahal (Taj Mahal), a singer, composer, multi-instrumentalist and an outstanding musical anthropologist. A lively interest in ethnic music, which has not been dying for 40 years, turned him into an encyclopedic educated person. Answering the ordinary question about a specific song, he can read a whole lecture on the pedigree of banjo or migrations of Africans over the past four hundred years! One of the most outstanding bluesmen of the late 20th century, Taj Mahal played an exceptional role in the revival and preservation of the traditional acoustic blues. But the exciting musical horizons opened to them, which did not recognize any boundaries, did not allow him to close within one style. Finding points of contact of different traditions, exploring and "taming" reggae, jazz and gospel, calypso and zaydeko, folklore of the Caribbean and Hawaiian islands,


1968 - Taj Mahal [33:01]
1968 - The Natch'l Blues [49:04]
1969 - Giant Step / De Ole Folks at Home [1:10:40]
1971 - Happy Just to Be Like I Am [42:19]
1972 - Recycling the Blues & Other Related Stuff [41:31]
1972 - 'Sounder' (Soundtrack) [35:14]
1973 - Oooh So Good 'N Blues [33:47]
1974 - Mo 'Roots [33:47]
1975 - Music Keeps Me Together [45:39]
1976 - Satisfied 'N Tickled Too [39:14]
1977 - Brothers (Soundtrack) [41:33]
1977 - Music Fuh Ya '(Musica Para Tu) [41:56]
1977 - Evolution (The Most Recent) [36:07] - 192 kbps
1986 - Taj [42:50]
1988 - Shake Sugaree [35:45]
1991 - Like Never Before [47:19]
1991 - Mule Bone [33:43]
1992 - Rising Sons featuring the Taj Mahal and Ry Cooder (with Rising Sons & Ry Cooder) [1:02:31]
1993 - World Music [53:44]
1993 - Dancing the Blues [48:18]
1995 - Mumtaz Mahal (with VM Bhatt and N. Ravikiran) [44:20]
1996 - Phantom Blues [47:58]
1997 - Señor Blues [51:43]
1998 - The Real Blues [38:20] - 192 kbps
1998 - Sacred Island (with The Hula Blues Band) [45:22]
1999 - Kulanjan (with Toumani Diabate) [59:02]
2003 - Hanapepe Dream (with The Hula Blues Band) [44:53]
2004 - Etta Baker with Taj Mahal [46:59]
2005 - Mkutano (Meets the Culture Musical Club of Zanzibar) [48:28]
2007 - World Blues [33:41]
2008 - Maestro [57:36]
2014 - Talkin 'Christmas! (with The Blind Boys of Alabama) [40:32]
2017 - TajMo (with Keb 'Mo') [45:21]

1971 - The Real Thing [1:06:54]
1990 - Live At Ronnie Scott's [54:36]
1994 - An Evening of Acoustic Music [1:10:22]
1994 - Sugar Mama Blues [56:51]
2000 - Shoutin 'in Key (with The Phantom Blues Band) [55:39]
2004 - Live Catch [1:09:33]
2015 - Live from Kauai (with The Hula Blues Band) [1:53:39]
2016 - Live in San Francisco 1966 [33:49]

1979 - Live & Direct (with International Rhythm Band) [40:00]
1992 - Taj's Blues [50:40]
1998 - In Progress & In The Motion (1965-98) [3:20:15]
1998 - The Very Best of [2:08:11]
1999 - Blue Light Boogie [47:25]
2000 - The Blues Masters [1:08:03]
2000 - The Best of the Private Years [47:03]
2003 - Blues with a Feeling [1:15:33]
2003 - Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues - Taj Mahal [56:50]
2012 - Playlist: The Very Best of Taj Mahal [55:39]
2012 - The Hidden Treasures Of The Taj Mahal [2:11:14]