Taj Mahal-The Natchl Blues-Remastered-CD-FLAC-2000-THEVOiD

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 Info   
     Artist  | Taj Mahal
     Title   | The Natch'l Blues
     Genre   | Blues                                Format  | Album
     Source  | CD                                   Time    | 48:57
     Label   | Columbia Records                     Store   | 2000
     Catalog | 498172 2                             Rip     | 2020
     Bitrate | 836 kbps                             Size    | 307.08 MB
     Freq    | 44.1 kHz                             Encoder | FLAC 1.3.1
 Tracks 
     01. Good Morning Miss Brown                                     3:16
     02. Corinna                                                     3:03
     03. I Ain't Gonna Let Nobody Steal My Jellyroll                 3:14
     04. Going Up To The Country, Paint My Mailbox Blue              3:38
     05. Done Changed My Way Of Living                               7:04
     06. She Caught The Katy And Left Me A Mule To Ride              3:30
     07. The Cuckoo                                                  4:16
     08. You Don't Miss Your Water ('Til Your Well Runs Dry)         4:26
     09. Ain't That A Lot Of Love                                    4:11
     10. The Cuckoo (Alternate Version) (Previously Unreleased)      3:21
         (Bonus Track)
     11. New Stranger Blues (Previously Unreleased) (Bonus Track)    5:41
     12. Things Are Gonna Work Out Fine (Previously Unreleased)      3:17
         (Bonus Track)
 Notes  
     One of the most prominent figures in late 20th century blues,
     singer/multi-instrumentalist Taj Mahal played an enormous role in
     revitalizing and preserving traditional acoustic blues. Not content to stay
     within that realm, Mahal soon broadened his approach, taking a
     musicologist's interest in a multitude of folk and roots music from around
     the world - reggae and other Caribbean folk, jazz, gospel, R&B, zydeco,
     various West African styles, Latin, even Hawaiian. The African-derived
     heritage of most of those forms allowed Mahal to explore his own ethnicity
     from a global perspective and to present the blues as part of a wider
     musical context.
     Yet while he dabbled in many different genres, he never strayed too far
     from his laid-back country blues foundation. Blues purists naturally didn't
     have much use for Mahal's music, and according to some of his other
     detractors, his multi-ethnic fusions sometimes came off as indulgent, or
     overly self-conscious and academic. Still, Mahal's concept was vindicated
     in the '90s, when a cadre of young bluesmen began to follow his lead - both
     acoustic revivalists (Keb' Mo', Guy Davis) and eclectic bohemians (Corey
     Harris, Alvin Youngblood Hart).
     Taj Mahal's second album "The Natch'l Blues", recorded in the spring
     and fall of 1968, opens with more stripped-down Delta-style blues in
     the manner of his debut, but adds a little more amplification
     (partly courtesy of Al Kooper on organ) before moving into wholly
     bigger sound on numbers like "She Caught The Katy and Left Me A Mule
     To Ride" and "The Cuckoo" - the latter, in particular, features
     crunchy electric and acoustic guitars and Gary Gilmore playing his
     bass almost like a lead instrument, like a bluesman's answer to John
     Entwistle. Most notable, however, may be "You Don't Miss Your Water
     ('Til Your Well Runs Dry)" and "Ain't That A Lot Of Love", which
     offer Taj Mahal working in the realm of soul and treading onto Otis
     Redding territory. This is particularly notable on "You Don't Miss
     Your Water", which achieves the intensity of a gospel performance
     and comes complete with a Stax/Volt-style horn arrangement by Jesse
     Ed Davis that sounds more like the real thing than the real thing.
     "Ain't That A Lot Of Love", by contrast, is driven by a hard
     electric guitar sound and a relentless bass part that sounds like a
     more urgent version of the bassline from the Spencer Davis Group's
     "Gimme Some Lovin". This 2000 CD reissue includes a trio of bonus
     tracks: a faster-paced rendition of "The Cuckoo" with a more
     prominent lead guitar, the slow electric lament "New Stranger Blues"
     featuring some good mandolin-style playing on the guitar, and the
     rocking instrumental "Things Are Gonna Work Out Fine," which is a
     killer showcase for Davis' lead electric guitar and Taj Mahal's
     virtuosity on the harmonica.

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