Taj Mahal and Ry Cooder-Get On Board-CD-FLAC-2022-THEVOiD

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 Info   
     Artist  | Taj Mahal & Ry Cooder
     Title   | Get On Board
     Genre   | Blues                                Format  | Album
     Source  | CD                                   Time    | 44:27
     Label   | Nonesuch Records                     Store   | 2022
     Catalog | 2-667107                             Rip     | 2022
     Bitrate | 883 kbps                             Size    | 290.69 MB
     Freq    | 44.1 kHz                             Encoder | FLAC 1.3.1
 Tracks 
     01. My Baby Done Changed The Lock On The Door                   4:15
     02. The Midnight Special                                        3:26
     03. Hooray Hooray                                               4:19
     04. Deep Sea Diver                                              5:17
     05. Pick A Bale Of Cotton                                       3:02
     06. Drinkin' Wine Spo-Dee-O-Dee                                 3:15
     07. What A Beautiful City                                       4:11
     08. Pawn Shop Blues                                             5:51
     09. Cornbread, Peas, Black Molasses                             3:43
     10. Packing Up Getting Ready To Go                              2:49
     11. I Shall Not Be Moved                                        4:19
 Notes  
     Taj Mahal and Ry Cooder played together during the mid-'60s as part
     of roots rock band Rising Sons and cut an unreleased album for
     Columbia. In 1968, Cooder, then 17, played guitar behind Jesse Ed
     Davis on Mahal's eponymously titled Columbia debut. The raucous,
     woolly, "Get On Board: The Songs of Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee"
     places them in the studio together for the first time in more than
     50 years.
     All 11 songs are drawn from the Terry-McGhee catalog, including
     three that originally appeared on the guitar-and-harmonica duo's
     1952 Folkways recording Get On Board (even the album cover was
     modeled on the original). Terry and McGhee made records, but as
     fresh fare for their many live performances - they toured constantly
     during the '50s and '60s. Their influence and impact on Mahal and
     Cooder is incalculable; it completely informed their long careers.
     Though this pair are grizzled veterans, they perform with the joy of
     a Saturday-night jam session, rendering the material with rowdy
     exuberance, killer vibes, and chops galore. On 1952's Get On Board,
     Terry and McGhee were accompanied by Coyal McMahan on maracas. Here,
     Cooder's son Joachim joins on bass and percussion. Mahal takes on
     the role of harmonicist Terry. He is one of the most innovative and
     resonant blues singers in history, and like Terry, he offers amazing
     rhythmic statements with both voice and harp.
     His lusty delivery on opener "My Baby Done Changed the Lock on the
     Door" is alone worth the album's price tag. Cooder claims guitarist
     McGhee as his role model here. His strumming and fingerpicking
     styles were directly inspired by his predecessor's playing
     technique. On the same opening tune, Cooder's distorted electric
     strum provides the bountiful grit and groove quotient for his
     partner. He takes the lead vocal on a jaunty version of the standard
     "The Midnight Special".
     Mahal's harmonica and backing vocal offer inventive lyricism and
     pulsing rhythm accompaniment as Joachim bangs on boxes and snares
     underneath. "Deep Sea Diver" is rendered with Mahal playing
     barrelhouse piano. Atop a filthy electric guitar, Cooder delivers
     one of his most impassioned, soulful vocals. Mahal grunts, growls,
     and snarls in "Drinkin' Wine Spo-Dee-O-Dee" as Cooder punctuates the
     lines with a biting acoustic slide and affirmative shouted
     commentary. "Cornbread, Peas, Black Molasses" is a homesick country
     blues sung in duet amid wrangling guitars and wailing harp.
     "Packing Up Getting Ready to Go" has modern sonics, staggered vocal
     harmonies, and swampy midnight guitar from Cooder; the lyrics
     reference death and salvation as imminent. Get On Board closes with
     the gospel nugget "I Shall Not Be Moved," offered loosely as
     spiritual conviction, truth, and a symbol of earthly resistance to
     injustice amid joyfully strummed guitars, piping harp, and thudding
     percussion.
     Mahal and Cooder stay close to the originals, but whether faithfully
     evoking the sound and spirit of their mentors or using them as
     lift-off points for expansion, this glorious album honors their
     subjects with joy and swagger as well as devotion.

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