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Music CD - Taj Mahal: The Best of Taj Mahal
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Music CD: The Best of Taj Mahal
Artist: Taj Mahal
List Price: $11.98
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Manufacturer: Sony
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Tracks:
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1. Statesboro Blues
2. Leaving Trunk
3. Corinna
4. Going Up To The Country, Paint My Mailbox Blue
5. She Caught The Katy And Left Me A Mule To Ride
6. Take A Giant Step
7. Six Days On The Road
8. Farther On Down The Road
9. Fishing Blues
10. Ain't Gwine To Whistle Dixie (Any Mo') (Live)
11. You're Going To Need Somebody On Your Bond (Live)
12. Cakewalk Into Town
13. Oh Susanna
14. Frankie And Albert
15. Chevrolet
16. Johnny Too Bad
17. Sweet Mama Janisse (Previously Unissued Studio Recording)
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0074646585627
Format: Original recording remastered
Label: Sony
Manufacturer: Sony
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Sony
Release Date: 2000-09-05
Studio: Sony
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Spotlight customer reviews:
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Customer Rating: 
Summary: Best Of Taj Mahal
Comment: Great cd although the added tracks interrupted the flow of the original cd. My biggest beef is that it says "original Recordings Remastered", which holds true for all of the original tracks except for "Farther On Down The Road" which is NOT the same as the original on "The Best Of". The backup vocals..."spidoo-spidee" are not on this version and it's not as funky either. Honestly, that track is the whole reason I bought the cd and was very disappointed in the false advertising. Who is to blame for this? If anyone knows where to get the original version please let me know......
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Summary: ok this is fantastic, now how about ...
Comment: ... a collection to complement this?
this album covers TJ's late 60s and early 70s. how about another collection (maybe double disk) to complement this collection - which covers his later 70s and 80s and 90s ...
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Summary: Taj never fails
Comment: He never lets us down. These old favorites are blues at the roots. Taj Mahal is one of the great blues men.
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Summary: The Best of Taj Mahal
Comment: I finally broke down and dropped twelve bucks on this CD, even though I already had The Essential Taj Mahal, which contains nearly all the tracks on this one. The reason I did it was to get one single track, possibly my favorite song that he has ever recorded: "Farther On Down The Road." This song is so amazing, I plan to play it at my wedding. (I want "Corinna" played at my wedding too, but I doubt I will be lucky enough to find a girl that lets me plan an all-Taj wedding soundtrack; that would be sweet, though). In addition to "Farther On Down The Road," this CD trades two songs from Taj's best album (Giant Step/De Ole Folks At Home) for live versions of these same songs, from the excellent live album The Real Thing. The Essential Taj Mahal includes only the studio versions of these songs, so this CD is a nice complement to The Essential in that respect, especially since the two songs in question are two of his best and worth hearing in multiple versions. And the Real Thing was recorded with a horn section, so the songs do sound plenty different from the studio versions.
Another song that's worthy of mention is "Frankie & Albert," about a woman who shoots her cheating man. I don't know about you, but I find that role reversal pretty refreshing, considering the million versions of "Hey Joe" that have been done.
If you are new to Taj, I would recommend you start with this one rather than The Essential Taj Mahal; if you like what you hear, then later you can get either The Essential Taj Mahal or In Progress & In Motion (a great 3-CD compilation). In Progress & In Motion has Taj's awesome version of the Mississippi John Hurt song "Stagger Lee" (also reworked into a reggae song by the Clash for London Calling), yet another song that is sadly missing from The Essential. Both of these multi-CD compilations do a much better job than The Best Of at covering Taj's later period. He was making good music all the way into the 90's, including some very cool Hawaiian-flavored blues stuff; but The Best Of does not include anything past 1974.
Bottom line: Start here, but *don't* stop here.
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Summary: An essential element of any blues collection
Comment: Taj Mahal exudes the essence of music. He could enthrall an audience with a comb and a piece of wax paper if he felt like it. This man is a griot, a National Treasure. This album effortlessly imparts an education in the background of the blues. One jewel of a song after another.
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Editorial Reviews:
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Taj Mahal's been chasing the blues around the world for years, but rarely with the passion, energy, and clarity he brought to his first three albums. Taj Mahal, The Natch'l Blues and The Real Thing are the sound of the artist, who was born in 1942, defining himself and his music. On his self-titled 1967 debut, he not only honors the sound of the Delta masters with his driving National steel guitar and hard vocal shout, but ladles in elements of rock and country with the help of guitarists Ry Cooder and the late Jessie Ed Davis. This approach is reinforced and broadened by The Natch'l Blues. What's most striking is Mahal's way of making even the oldest themes sound as if they're part of a new era. Not just through the vigor of his playing--relentlessly propulsive, yet stripped down compared with the six-string ornamentations of the original masters of country blues--but through his singing, which possesses a knowing insouciance distinct to post-Woodstock counterculture hipsters. It's the voice of an informed young man who knows he's offering something deep to an equally hip and receptive audience. Soon, Mahal turned his multicultural vision of the blues even further outward. The live 1971 set, The Real Thing, finds him still carrying the Mississippi torch, while adding overt elements of jazz and Afro-Caribbean music to its flame. But it's overreaching. His band sounds under-rehearsed, and the arrangements seem more like rough outlines. Nonetheless, these albums set the stage for Mahal's career. (For a condensed version, try the fine The Best of Taj Mahal.) Today, he continues to make fine fusion albums, like 1999's Kulanjan, with Malian kora master Toumani Diabate, and less exciting but still eclectic recordings with his Phantom Blues Band. --Ted Drozdowski
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