曲目リスト

ディスク 1:

1. You're Gonna Need Somebody on Your Bond
2. Corrina [*]
3. Checkin' Up on My Baby [*]
4. Leaving Trunk [*]
5. Buck Dancer's Choice
6. Going Up to the Country, Paint My Mailbox Blue
7. She Caught the Katy (And Left Me a Mule to Ride)
8. Ain't Gwine to Whistle Dixie Anymo'
9. Stagger Lee
10. Built for Comfort
11. Natural Man [*]
12. Railroad Bill
13. Texas Woman Blues
14. Early in the Morning [*]
15. Dust My Broom
16. Blind Boy Rag

ディスク 2:

1. Oh, Susannah
2. Cakewalk into Town
3. Fishin' Blues [Live][*]
4. Nobody's Business But My Own [Live][*]
5. Sweet Mama Janisse
6. Little Red Hen Blues [Live][*]
7. Mary Don't You Weep [Live][*]
8. Sweet Home Chicago [Live][*]
9. Frankie and Albert
10. M'Banjo [*]
11. Statesboro Blues [Take 2]
12. Bye & Bye
13. Six Days on the Road
14. We Gonna Rock [Live]
15. Ain't It Funky Now [*]
16. Tom & Sally Drake
17. Fishin' Blues [*]
18. Blues with a Feeling [*]
19. Freight Train [*]

ディスク 3:

1. When I Feel the Sea Beneath My Soul
2. West Indian Revelation
3. Eighteen Hammers
4. Johnny Too Bad
5. Slave Driver
6. Clara (St. Kitts Woman)
7. Do I Love Her
8. Everybody Is Somebody
9. But I Rode Some
10. Crossing
11. Sentidos Dulce (Sweet Feelings)
12. Most Recent Evolution of Muthafusticus Modernusticus
13. Curry
14. Follow the Drinking Gourd
15. Banana Boat Song (Day-O)
16. Little Brown Dog
17. Señor Blues
18. Ain't That a Lot of Love
19. Take a Giant Step

商品の詳細

• Amazon.co.jp ランキング: #227738 / ミュージック
• 発売日: 1998-10-13
• ディスク枚数: 3
• 形式: Best of, Box set, Import, from US
• 寸法: .42 ポンド

Amazon.com essential recording
Taj Mahal has become a blues ambassador, carrying the music to new audiences and melding it with other influences. It's altogether appropriate, then, that three of the early tracks on this three-CD set are unreleased from the Rolling Stones 1968 musical experiment, Rock and Roll Circus. This box emphasizes (but is not limited to) Taj's early career--the late-'60s through the mid-'70s--and whether he's playing solo acoustic instrumentals ("Buck Dancer's Choice"), revving up a rock band ("Statesboro Blues"), or weaving his National Steel guitar around tubas ("Sweet Mama Janisse"), the blues element is never far from center. He even brings out the Pointer Sisters, who funkify the blues standard, "Sweet Home Chicago." The latter part of the box ventures into the 1980s and '90s, and features some songs for kids. Taj Mahal makes a world gumbo of the blues, spiced with a nice hot sauce. --Robert Gordon

From Amazon.co.uk
Taj Mahal has become a blues ambassador, carrying the music to new audiences and melding it with other influences. It is altogether appropriate, then, that three of the early tracks on this three-CD set are unreleased from the Rolling Stones 1968 musical experiment, Rock and Roll Circus. This box emphasises (but is not limited to) Taj's early career--the late-1960s through the mid-'70s--and whether he's playing solo acoustic instrumentals ("Buck Dancer's Choice"), revving up a rock band ("Statesboro Blues") or weaving his National Steel guitar around tubas ("Sweet Mama Janisse"), the blues element is never far from centre. He even brings out the Pointer Sisters, who funkify the blues standard, "Sweet Home Chicago". The latter part of the box ventures into the 1980s and '90s, and features some songs for kids. Taj Mahal makes a world gumbo of the blues, spiced with a nice hot sauce. --Robert Gordon

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