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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

No matter the genre, tribute albums tend toward the reverent, as if the musicians and singers doing the saluting don’t want to appear even remotely disrespectful toward their subjects. Thankfully, ...

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 ...

Kevin Moore — known by his stage name, Keb’ Mo’ — was just a teenager when he first heard Taj Mahal play. In the late 1960s, America was in the midst of a blues revival. Thanks to acts like Taj Mahal, ...

Springfield's Taj Mahal received the the Lifetime Achievement for Performance Award at the 13th Annual Americana Honors and Awards show in Nashville. "This is one of the most powerful and wonderful ...

In September 2014, some 50 years after moving to Los Angeles to form the band Rising Sons with fellow blues musician Ry Cooder and Jessie Lee Kincaid, Taj Mahal hightailed it to Nashville to receive ...

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 ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Everett Collection Inc / Alamy Stock Photo The Grammy award-winning Taj Mahal counts Led ...

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 ...