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Keb' Mo'
Keb' Mo'
American blues singer, guitarist, and songwriter
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Jontavious Willis
Jontavious Willis
American blues singer and songwriter
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Rising Sons
Rising Sons
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Ry Cooder
Ry Cooder
American guitarist, singer and composer
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Colin Linden
Colin Linden
Canadian musician, songwriter and record producer
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Denny Freeman
Denny Freeman
American Texas and electric blues guitarist
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Jesse Ed Davis
Jesse Ed Davis
American musician
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Billy Branch
Billy Branch
American Grammy nominated Chicago Blues harmonica player, singer, primary Blues in Schools originator
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Reggie McBride
Reggie McBride
American musician
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Tony Furtado
Tony Furtado
American musician
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Anders Osborne
Anders Osborne
American singer-songwriter
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Sleepy John Estes
Sleepy John Estes
American blues guitarist, songwriter and singer
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David Hidalgo
David Hidalgo
American musician
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Darrell Leonard
Darrell Leonard
American musician
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Ana Popović
Ana Popović
Serbian blues guitarist and singer
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Tom Hambridge
Tom Hambridge
American music producer, songwriter, and musician
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Charley Patton
Charley Patton
American Delta blues musician
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Henry Thomas
Henry Thomas
American recording artist; country blues singer, songster and musician.
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Vishwa Mohan Bhatt
Vishwa Mohan Bhatt
Indian mohan veena player
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Jason Ricci
Jason Ricci
American musician
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John Hiatt
John Hiatt
American rock guitarist, pianist, singer, and songwriter; born 1952
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James Cotton
James Cotton
American blues harmonica player, singer and songwriter
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Pops Staples
Pops Staples
American musician
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Susan Tedeschi
Susan Tedeschi
American blues and soul musician
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Merl Saunders
Merl Saunders
American musician
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Ben Harper
Ben Harper
American singer-songwriter and musician
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Kenny Wayne Shepherd
Kenny Wayne Shepherd
American musician
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Eric Bibb
Eric Bibb
American singer-songwriter
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Walter Trout
Walter Trout
American musician
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Monster Mike Welch
Monster Mike Welch
musical artist
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Phil Madeira
Phil Madeira
Musician, composer, producer, singer, writer.
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Muddy Waters
Muddy Waters
American blues singer and guitarist
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John Dee Holeman
John Dee Holeman
American Piedmont blues guitarist, singer and songwriter
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Lizz Wright
Lizz Wright
American singer
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Jesse Johnson
Jesse Johnson
American musician
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Mississippi John Hurt
Mississippi John Hurt
American country blues singer and guitarist
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Los Lobos
Los Lobos
American Chicano rock band
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Larkin Poe
Larkin Poe
American blues rock band based in Atlanta, Georgia
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Jeff Beck
Jeff Beck
English rock guitarist
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Kenny Neal
Kenny Neal
American blues guitarist and singer
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David Bromberg
David Bromberg
American musician
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The Blind Boys of Alabama
The Blind Boys of Alabama
gospel group from Alabama, United States
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Bobby Murray
Bobby Murray
American blues guitarist, songwriter and record producer
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Johnny Winter
Johnny Winter
American blues guitarist and singer
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Joe Louis Walker
Joe Louis Walker
Blues musician
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Robben Ford
Robben Ford
American blues, jazz and rock guitarist
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Devon Allman
Devon Allman
American musician
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Howard Johnson
Howard Johnson
American musician
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Alvin Youngblood Hart
Alvin Youngblood Hart
American musician
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Gary Marker
Gary Marker
American musician
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Delbert McClinton
Delbert McClinton
American blues rock and electric blues singer-songwriter, guitarist, harmonica player, and pianist
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Ali Farka Touré
Ali Farka Touré
Malian musician
Taj Mahal
American Blues musician famous for incorporating elements of world music

Taj Mahal

Intro
American Blues musician famous for incorporating elements of world music
Record Labels
Awards Received
Americana Lifetime Achievement Award for Performance
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Henry St. Claire Fredericks, Jr. (born May 17, 1942), better known by his stage name Taj Mahal, is an American blues musician, singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, actor, and film composer. He plays the guitar, piano, banjo, harmonica, and many other instruments, often incorporating elements of world music into his work. Mahal has done much to reshape the definition and scope of blues music over the course of his more than 50-year career by fusing it with nontraditional forms, including sounds from the Caribbean, Africa, India, Hawaii, and the South Pacific.