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 ...

There is an African proverb that says "If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together." The intimacy and the dynamics of the duet setting have long appealed to virtuoso guitarist ...

Slide guitar virtuoso Ry Cooder and blues musician Taj Mahal started their careers together. They formed the Rising Sons and signed to Columbia in 1965 but disbanded a year later, and the group’s sole ...

Needle to the groove, before you know it, you're somewhere: "That whole chugga-chugga-chugga rhythm," says Taj Mahal, "it carried you." There was a seductive kind of locomotion, harmonizing and ...

Nostalgic collections of roots-music songs have burgeoned through the holed-up pandemic years. Three new albums find history-aware performers looking back, in unpredictable ways: Taj Mahal and Ry ...

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 ...

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 ...

“Maestro” is an appropriate title for Taj Mahal. He’s a multi-instrumentalist who revels in myriad musical styles from throughout the United States and the world. Taj Mahal, who plays Saturday, Feb.

The new LP, which is set for release on April 22, is the duo’s first collaboration in more than a half-century. To celebrate the announcement, the two musicians have released a new live video for the ...

Taj Mahal and Ry Cooder have announced a new LP, Get On Board: The Songs Of Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee, out April 22 via Nonesuch Records. They have also shared the video for “Hooray Hooray.” The LP ...