With a forty-year track record of recording the blues, Taj Mahal has earned the label of maestro. Now, he celebrates four decades with an album that uses that word as its theme. Born Henry St. Clair ...

Graham Reid is an NZ journalist, author, broadcaster and arts educator. His website, Elsewhere, provides features and reports on music, film, travel and other cultural issues. The Silver Scroll ...

Mahal took much of the 1980s off from recording, though he did release three children's albums with his daughter Deva Mahal. But in the 1990s, Mahal had a career resurgence coinciding with the ...

Taj Mahal performing “The Blues is Alright” Sept. 5 in Lowell, Mass. Taj Mahal sheds sunshine on the blues in more ways than one. He can pare the music down to its cotton-pickin’ essence as a field ...

Henry St. Claire Fredericks, known as Taj Mahal, performs on stage during his concert at the Blue Balls Festival in Lucerne, Switzerland, on July 23, 2005. Taj Mahal is a legendary, Grammy-winning ...