Mahal says the future of the blues depends on remembering its origins, from the Mississippi Delta to "the mother continent," ...

Legendary blues musician Taj Mahal has a simple message about the wide range of music in his repertoire. “Jazz will give you ...

With a forty-year track record of recording the blues, Taj Mahal has earned the label of maestro. Now, he celebrates four decades with an album that uses that word as its theme. Born Henry St. Clair ...

Blues icon and world music pioneer Taj Mahal will be headlining the Chicago Blues Festival this June. Taj Mahal and the Phantom Blues Band will perform the night of Sunday, June 7, at 7 p.m. at the ...

Soulful musical polymath Taj Mahal and guitar god Ry Cooder go way back. In the mid-60s, they played in Los Angeles band the Rising Sons, one of the country’s first integrated bands fusing rock and ...

Now, with three Grammys, 14 Grammy nominations, induction into the Blues Foundation Hall of Fame, and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Americana Music Association, he’s turning back the clock to ...

Mahal also has a new compilation hitting digital store shelves on Aug. 21, "The Hidden Treasures of Taj Mahal 1969-1973," a two-disc collection of previously unreleased material that includes a full ...

As legend has it, Duane Allman learned to play slide on a Coricidin pill bottle to Taj Mahal’s version of “Statesboro Blues” while sick in bed. This past Saturday night, Taj Mahal sat in with 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 ...

In 1968, Taj Mahal was onstage at the Whisky a Go Go in Los Angeles when he looked out and realised he was performing to a who's who of British rock music. "Three of the Stones were dancing, along ...

Taj Mahal is back in Berkeley. He stalks the street like a horse, striding down Shattuck Avenue with a thoroughbred's grace. In other places, this mountain of a man in white pants, tropical shirt and ...

Maestro is the perfect title for this Taj Mahal album. No matter who the star cameo is on a given track—and there is a famous name on almost every one—it's quite clear that the source of direction ...