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 ...

Over the course of his fifty-plus years of active musicology, Taj Mahal has explored all manner of roots music, but he always returns to his main influences in the blues. His delving into reggae and ...

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 ...

The super-eclectic Taj Mahal performs Sunday, Sept. 25 at 8 p.m. when he returns to The Pabst Theatre. His style is closest to country blues, but includes Caribbean, Hawaiian, Latin and African sounds ...

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 ...

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 ...

Living blues legend Taj Mahal is taking the stage at the historic Bing Crosby Theater. Born in 1942, Mahal grew up in a musical environment and studied multiple instruments from a young age, but was ...

And my blues education began. Now, 14 years after meeting him in an airport in Fiji, my conversation with Taj Mahal transcends the blues much the same way his career transcends the blues. "On this ...

Taj Mahal, the blues legend whose vibrant, worldly music encompassed African-rooted sounds of all kinds, will be inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame. Mahal, whose real name is Henry St. Clair ...

Taj Mahal flows effortlessly through his soundcheck at the Luckman Arts Complex, an elegant theater at California State University, Los Angeles. It’s only the second show of Mahal’s tour supporting ...

Renowned vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Taj Mahal has for decades enriched the blues canon with his inventive blend of world influences with the more traditional sounds of country, rock, R&B, and ...

The Telluride Blues & Brews Festival will return to Colorado September 18-20, 2026, with The Marcus King Band, Jon Batiste, and Taj Mahal & Keb&#039 ...