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1001 Other Albums

Taj Mahal – Taj Mahal (1968, US)

Our next spotlight is on number 305 on The List, submitted by weirdofhermiston. This beauty of an album sure is a portal into multiple rabbit holes! This is the debut "solo" album from the amazing blues musician and vocalist Taj Mahal, featuring two other brilliant musicians you either already know or are going to want to get to know: Ry Cooder (who would go onto become known as one of the greatest guitarists) and Jesse Ed Davis (who would go onto become a sought-after session artist and, a citizen of the Kiowa tribe, would be posthumously inducted into the Native American Music Hall of Fame). If you want to get lost in the blues, give this one a spin and go from there!

Want to read more? See the full spotlight: 1001otheralbums.com/2025/04/14

Want to skip straight to the music? Here's a Songlink: album.link/ca/i/193527879 (bonus Songlink, to Davis' 1971 solo album, ¡Jesse Davis!: album.link/ca/i/281171592)

Happy listening!

1001 Other Albums · Taj Mahal – Taj Mahal (1968, US)
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1001 Other Albums

Taj Mahal – Taj Mahal (1968, US)

Our next spotlight is on number 305 on The List, submitted by weirdofhermiston.

Well, this beauty of an album sure is a portal into multiple rabbit holes! This is the debut “solo” album from American blues musician and vocalist Taj Mahal (a.k.a. Henry St. Claire Fredericks Jr.), though it continues Mahal’s collaboration with Ry Cooder, who he previously worked with in the short-lived folk-rock group Rising Sons, and who would go onto become known as one of the greatest guitarists, particularly with his slide guitar work. The other key band member on this album is one Jesse Ed Davis, a citizen of the Kiowa tribe. While Davis had already started his musical career in the 50s, his work with Mahal seems to have brought him into the spotlight – and very rightly so! Davis would appear on the next three Mahal albums (playing both lead guitar and piano), and then would go solo himself while continuing to be a sought-after session musician, working with the likes of Bob Dylan, John Lennon, Leonard Cohen, and many many others.

As for Mahal himself, this was only the first of many solo albums, and he’s still going! Next month he’ll release what I believe is technically his 28th studio album (though he has around 100 albums listed on Discogs), a collab with Keb’ Mo’ titled Room On The Porch.

If you want to get lost in the blues, give this one a spin and go from there!

The cover art is a collage of a photo of the artist sitting on a chair in front of a 2-story white house (known as the Salt Box - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Salt_Box) with illustrations of various birds and butterflies superimposed on the photo, so they look like they are gathering around the artist, who is playing a guitar. The artist's name is in red font, placed at the top of the roof of the house. A chainlink fence with barbed wire at the top is between the house and Taj Mahal, as at the time there were plans to demolish the house, even though it was designated as a Los Angeles Historic Cultural Monument. The following year (1969) the house was moved and was to be restored, but then it was destroyed in a fire.
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On the other hand one of the populated places where #ClimateChange is slower is central #India, apparently because of air pollution (!). For example in #Agra (#UttarPradesh), where the #TajMahal is located, the temperature anomaly over the climatology period (1961-2010) was 0.2 °C for 2023 and 0.5 ° C for 2024. With an annual average temperature of 25 °C and tropical nights 6 months a year, it's already very hot in there!

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Looks like new releases from well-established performers over-rule the Brain DJ's choice this morning (The Who's "No Road Romance") –

TajMo (Taj Mahal & Keb' Mo'), "Junkyard Dog" (Mar 2025)

"Thought I was the king of your castle, turns out
I’m just a junkyard dog …"

TajMo's new album, "Room On The Porch" due for release on 23 May 2025!

youtube.com/watch?v=CEVyBN5P_T

YouTubeTajMo - Junkyard Dog (Official Audio)Di Keb' Mo'
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The Brain DJ is buried under a head cold.

I've just started reading "Willin': The Story of Little Feat" by Ben Fong-Torres (Da Capo Press, 2013), and learned that Taj Mahal covered a Little Feat song.

Gotta check that out!

Taj Mahal, "Feets Don't Fail Me Now" (1997)

(From the 1999 compilation of Taj Mahal's 1990's Private Music recordings, but first released on 1997's "Rock And Roll Doctor - A Tribute to Lowell George".)

youtube.com/watch?v=RlQAAuxcBY

YouTubeFeets Don't Fail Me NowDi Taj Mahal - Topic
#Music#LittleFeat#LowellGeorge
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