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Taj Mahal: Señor Blues

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Label: Privat Music Records
Released: 1997
Time:
 51:43
Category: Blues
Producer(s): John Porter
Rating: *********. (9/10)
Media type: CD
Web address: www.tajblues.com
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Purchase date: 2000.04.20
Price in €: 10,99



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[1] Queen Bee (Mahal) - 4:38
[2] Think (Pauling) - 2:35
[3] Irresistable You (Dixon/Kasha) - 3:13
[4] Having a Real Bad Day (Jarvis/McClinton) - 4:01
[5] Señor Blues (Silver) - 6:45
[6] Sophisticated Mama (Washboard Sam) - 3:55
[7] Oh Lord, Things Are Gettin' Crazy up Here (Cleary) - 4:37
[8] I Miss You Baby (Simon) - 3:29
[9] You Rascal You (Theard) - 4:07
[10] Mind Your Business (Williams) - 2:40
[11] 21st Century Gypsy Singin' Lover Man (Cleary/Mahal) - 5:44
[12] At Last (I Found a Love) (Gaye/Gaye/Stover) - 2:41
[13] Mr. Pitiful (Cropper/Redding) - 2:52

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Taj Mahal - Dobro, Harmonica, Kazoo, Vocals, Adaptation

Tony Braunagel - Percussion, Drums, Tambourine
Jon Cleary - Piano, Wurlitzer
Darrell Leonard - Trombone, Trumpet, Arranger, French Horn, Adaptation
Johnny Lee Schell - Guitar
Joe Sublett - Arranger, Tenor Saxophone, Adaptation
Texacali Horn's - Horn
Mick Weaver - Hammond B3 Organ
Tony Fulcher - Bass, Background Vocals

Donna Taylor - Background Vocals
Terrence Forsythe - Background Vocals
Sir Harry Bowens - Background Vocals

Joe McGrath - Engineer, Mixing
Stephen Marcussen - Mastering
Lester Cohen - Photography
James Minchin - Photography
Eric Greedy - Assistant Engineer
Michael Gibson - Assistant Engineer
Kathryn Keller Moss - Production Coordination
Sholto Scott Watson - Production Assistant
Diane Medak - Production Coordination
 

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Señor Blues is one of Taj Mahal's best latter-day albums, a rollicking journey through classic blues styles performed with contemporary energy and flair. There's everything from country-blues to jazzy uptown blues on Señor Blues, and Taj hits all of areas in between, including R&B and soul. Stylistically, it's similar to most of his albums, but he's rarely been as effortlessly fun and infectious as he is here.

Thom Owens - All Music Guide



"Wie schon seine letzten Studio- und Live-Platten ist auch diese quasi eine Revue von Oldies, mit deren Vortrag er den jungen Spunds von heute gründliches Wissen über die popmusikalischen Entwicklungen eines Jahrhunderts vermitteln will. Das gelingt ihm mit vorzüglicher Begleitmannschaft auch ohne daß er akademisch trocken oder historisierendbelehrend musizieren würde."

F. Schöler in Stereo 8/97



Taj Mahal ist 55, seit 35 Jahren im Geschäft und hat jährlich eine Platte gemacht. Album 36 gehört, im Gegensatz zu Nummer 35, in jeden Schrank. Mahal verzichtete in seiner Band auf abgehobene Co-Stars und ging die Musik so unspektakulär an, als hätte er endlich seine wahre Stärke erkannt. Daraus wuchs ein Dream-Team, das den Sound vom unglaublich Jazzig-coolen Horace Silver-Titelsong über Washboard Sams abdriftendes "Sophisticated Mama" bis zum "Oh Lord"-Gospel à la Blues Brothers förmlich explodieren läßt.

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For me, the real highlight of the Rolling Stones' Rock And Roll Circus video was seeing Taj Mahal in his badass Mexican pimp outfit, squeezing out Otis-style soul and whipping the crowd into a frenzy. Twenty-something years later he's still more or less up to the same stuff (in fact, at a recent performance, he still had a bunch of young English kids in his band). "Having A Real Bad Day" is a nice loping slow-boogie. Taj also does a dead-on vocal impersonation of Otis Redding's "Mr. Pitiful," which makes us yearn for a live album's worth of stuff from his pre-blues soul phase in the late `60s. Sometimes one wishes the band could be a little more sprightly (there's no substitute for Jesse Ed Davis on guitar), but Taj's vocals are as strong and tough as you'd want.

CMJ New Music Report Issue: 525 - Jun 09, 1997
 

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