- Taj Mahal (musician)( Henry Saint Clair Fredericks )【 12 albums 147 lyrics 】
- Henry Saint Clair Fredericks (born May 17, 1942), who uses the stage name Taj Mahal, is an American blues musician. He often incorporates elements of world music into his works. A self-taught singer-songwriter and film composer who plays the guitar, piano, banjo and harmonica (among many other instruments), Mahal has done much to reshape the definition and scope of blues music over the course of his almost 50-year career by fusing it with nontraditional forms, including sounds from the Caribbean, Africa and the South Pacific.
Awards
Taj Mahal has received two Grammy Awards (nine nominations) over his career.
1997 (Grammy Award) Best Contemporary Blues Album for Señor Blues
2000 (Grammy Award) Best Contemporary Blues Album for Shoutin' in Key
2006 (Blues Music Awards) Historical Album of the Year for The Essential Taj Mahal
2008 (Grammy Nomination) Best Contemporary Blues Album for Maestro
On February 8, 2006 Taj Mahal was designated the official Blues Artist of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
In March 2006, Taj Mahal, along with his sister, the late Carole Fredericks, received the Foreign Language Advocacy Award from the Northeast Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages in recognition of their commitment to shine a spotlight on the vast potential of music to foster genuine intercultural communication.
On May 22, 2011, Taj Mahal received an honorary Doctor of Humanities degree from Wofford College in Spartanburg, South Carolina. He also made brief remarks and performed three songs. A video of the performance can be found online.
In 2014, Taj Mahal received the Americana Music Association's Lifetime Achievement award.
Discography
Albums
1968 – Taj Mahal
1968 – The Natch'l Blues
1969 – Giant Step/De Ole Folks at Home
1971 – Happy Just to Be Like I Am
1972 – Recycling The Blues & Other Related Stuff
1972 – Sounder
1973 – Oooh So Good 'n Blues
1974 – Mo' Roots
1975 – Music Keeps Me Together
1976 – Satisfied 'N Tickled Too
1976 – Music Fuh Ya'
1977 – Brothers
1977 – Evolution
1987 – Taj
1988 – Shake Sugaree
1991 – Mule Bone
1991 – Like Never Before
1993 – Dancing the Blues
1995 – Mumtaz Mahal (with V.M. Bhatt and N. Ravikiran)
1996 – Phantom Blues
1997 – Señor Blues
1998 – Sacred Island aka Hula Blues (with The Hula Blues Band)
1999 – Kulanjan (with Toumani Diabaté)
2001 – Hanapepe Dream (with The Hula Blues Band)
2005 – Mkutano Meets the Culture Musical Club of Zanzibar
2008 – Maestro
2017 - TajMo (with Keb' Mo')
Live albums
1971 – The Real Thing
1972 – Recycling The Blues & Other Related Stuff
1972 – Big Sur Festival - One Hand Clapping
1979 – Live & Direct
1990 – Live at Ronnie Scott's
1996 – An Evening of Acoustic Music
2000 – Shoutin' in Key
2004 – Live Catch
Compilation albums
1980 – Going Home
1981 – The Best of Taj Mahal, Volume 1 – Columbia Records
1992 – Taj's Blues
1993 – World Music
1998 – In Progress & In Motion: 1965-1998
1999 – Blue Light Boogie
2000 – The Best of Taj Mahal
2000 – The Best of the Private Years
2001 – Sing a Happy Song: The Warner Bros. Recordings
2003 – Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues - Taj Mahal
2003 – Blues with a Feeling: The Very Best of Taj Mahal
2005 – The Essential Taj Mahal
2012 – Hidden Treasures of Taj Mahal - Sorted by ＞ Sorted by album (Time) Sorted by song name (Characters) Sorted by other
- Album name Release Date Song
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Maestro
2008-10
1.Scratch My Back
2.Never Let You Go
3.Dust Me Down (Provided)
4.Farther On Down The Road
5.Black Man Brown Man (Provided)
6.Zanzibar (Provided)
7.TV Mama8.I Can Make You Happy (Provided)
9.Slow Drag (Provided)
10.Hello Josephine
11.Strong Man Holler (Provided)
12.Diddy Wah Diddy (Provided)
13.Further On Down The Road -
Giant Step & De Ole Folks At Home
2003-07
1.Wild Ox Moan -
Sacred Island
1998
1.The New Hula Blues -
Señor Blues
1997
1.Having a Real Bad Day
2.Mind Your Own Business
3.Think
4.Señor Blues
5.Queen Bee
6.Irresistible You
7.Sophisticated Mama (Provided)8.Oh Lord, Things Are Gettin' Crazy Up In Here (Provided)
9.I Miss You Baby
10.You Rascal You
11.21st Century Gypsy Singing Lover Man (Provided)
12.At Last (I Found a Love) (Provided)
13.Mr. Pitiful -
Satisfied N Tickled Too
1976
1.Satisfied & Tickled Too
2.New Ez Rider Blues (Provided)
3.Baby Love (Provided)
4.Ain't Nobody's Business If I Do
5.Misty Morning Ride (Provided)6.Easy To Love (Provided)
7.Old Time Song Old Time Love (Provided)
8.We Tune (Provided)
9.Black Man Brown Man (Provided) -
The Natch'l Blues
1.You Don't Miss Your Water ('Til Your Well Runs Dry)
2.New Stranger Blues - Bonus Track3.Ain't That a Lot of Love -
The Complete Taj Mahal On Columbia Records
1.Fishin' Blues (Live)
2.Desperate Lover
3.Fishin' Blues
4.Stagger Lee
5.You Don't Miss Your Water ('Til Your Well Runs Dry)6.Ain't That a Lot of Love
7.You Ain't No Street Walker Mama, Honey but I Do Love the Way You Strut Your Stuff (Live)
8.Diving Duck Blues (Live)
9.Going up to the Country and Paint My Mailbox Blue (Live)
10.You're Gonna Need Somebody on Your Bond -
Sing a Happy Song: The Warner Brothers Recordings
1.Freight Train (live) (Provided)
2.Going Up to the Country, Paint My Mailbox Blue (live)
3.Truck Driver's Two-Step (live)4.Ain't Nobody's Business but My Own (live)
5.Johnny Too Bad (live)
6.Queen Bee -
Sing a Happy Song: The Warner Bros. Recordings
1.Farther On Down the Road (You Will Accompany Me) [Live In Chicago]
2.Freight Train (Live In Chicago) (Provided)
3.Truck Driver's Two-Step (Live In Chicago)4.Ain't Nobody's Business But My Own (Live In Chicago)
5.Johnny Too Bad (Live In Chicago)
6.Queen Bee -
Dancing the Blues
1.Strut
2.Mockingbird
3.Down Home Girl
4.Stranger in My Own Home Town5.I'm Ready
6.Blue Light Boogie
7.Sitting On Top of the World (Provided) -
TajMo
1.Don't Leave Me Here
2.All Around the World3.Ain't Nobody Talkin' -
Miscellaneous
1.Corinna
2.Bo Diddley
3.Blackjack Davey
4.She Caught the Katy and Left Me a Mule to Ride
5.Lonely Avenue
6.Lovin' in My Baby's Eyes
7.You Don't Miss Your Water ('Till Your Well Runs Dry)
8.Hard Way
9.Oh Susanna
10.Don't Tell Me
11.Freight Train
12.Keepin' Out Of Mischief Now
13.Take a Giant Step
14.Fishing Blues
15.I Can't Help Myself (Sugarpie Honeybunch)
16.The Calypsonians
17.Cakewalk Into Town
18.Annie's Lover
19.Frankie and Albert
20.What Am I Living For?
21.Need Your Lovin'
22.Nobody's Business But My Own
23.Texas Woman Blues
24.Leaving Trunk
25.You're Gonna Need Somebody On Your Bond
26.Don't Call Us
27.The Name Game
28.Catfish Blues
29.The Banana Boat Song
30.Mind Your Business
31.That's How Strong My Love Is
32.Farther On Down the Road (You Will Accompany Me)
33.Good Morning Little Schoolgirl
34.West Indian Revelation
35.Cake Walk Into Town
36.Shake Sugaree
37.Big Legged Mamas Are Back In Style Again (Lee)
38.Coconut Man39.EZ Rider
40.Satisfied 'n' Tickled Too
41.Betty and Dupree
42.Function At The Junction
43.Willie And The Hand Jive
44.Johnny Too Bad
45.Stagger Lee (Live)
46.Take This Hammer
47.Shake A Tail Feather
48.Brown Eyed Handsome Man
49.You've Got To( Love Her With A Feeling)
50.Follow The Drinking Gourd
51.Rockin' Robin
52.Light Rain
53.Built For Comfort
54.Feets Don't Fail Me Now
55.Sweet Home Chicago - W/The Pointer Sisters
56.Little Sally Walker
57.Blues Ain't Nuthin'
58.Statesboro Blues
59.Tear This Cabin Down
60.She Caught the Katy and Left Me a Mule to Ride - Live
61.Honky Tonk Women
62.Take a Giant Step (Live)
63.Clara (St. Kitts Woman)
64.It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry
65.Great Big Boat
66.African Herbman
67.Corinna - From 'The Natch'l Blues'
68.Do I Love Her
69.Big Legged Mamas Are Back in Style
70.Slave Driver
71.Blues With a Feeling
72.Dust My Broom
73.All Along the Watchtower
74.Everyday People
75.Done Changed My Way of Living
【Correction of errors in the album information】