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1972's Recycling The Blues & Other Related Stuff is the fifth full-length album from American blues singer/songwriter Taj Mahal. The self-produced Columbia Records 11-song set features seven live tracks and four studio recordings. The first seven tracks were recorded live at the Fillmore West while the remainder were recorded at Columbia's San Francisco studios with vocals from the one-and-only Pointer Sisters. The appropriately titled collection finds Taj Mahal in excellent form and doing what he does best, reinterpreting the blues as only he can.
As one of the most prominent figures in the blues of the late 20th Century played the singer / multi-instrumentalist Taj Mahal, a prominent role in the revival and preservation of traditional acoustic blues. Born on 17 May 1941 in New York as Henry St. Clair Fredericks, he moved to his graduation in 1964 to Los Angeles, where he founded after a name in the local folk-blues had made scene, with guitarist Ry Cooder Rising Sons the. Dissatisfied with the perspective advanced Mahal soon his musical understanding by the interest of a musicologist with the diversity of folk and with what we call world music today, busy.
The title "Recycling the Blues & Other Related Stuff" characterizes the album very well because that was it, bringing Mahal had explained at this time quite a few years. Relaxed studio recordings with a gospel-tinged support of the Pointer Sisters dominate the first side of the LP, the second gives a good insight into Mahals stage presence.
Recording: David Brown and George Engfer
production: Taj Mahal
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Taj Mahal Recycling The Blues & Other Related Stuff
1. Conch Intro
2. Kalimba
3. Bound To Love Me Some
4. Ricochet
5. A Free Song (Rise Up Children Shake the Devil Out Of Your Soul)
6. Corinna
7. Conch: Close
8. Cakewalk Into Town
9. Sweet Home Chicago
10. Texas Woman Blues
11. Gitano Negro
