View basket “Crusade” has been added to your basket. Labor of Love Taj Mahal SKU: AAPB113 Barcode: 753088011313 42.00 £42.00 Genre: Blues Label: Analogue Productions Released Date: 26th January 2017 Buying Format: 200g 2LP Out of stock Back Order Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info Vinyl-only release! Previously unreleased late 1990s recordings!Taj performs with guest artists: John Dee Holeman, Cool John Ferguson, Cootie Stark and Algia Mae Hinton Mastered by Kevin Gray at Cohearent Audio from original 44.1kHz/16-bit session recordings The blues live on because the blues give people life, not the other way around. Talk about the blues with Grammy winning singer-songwriter and composer Taj Mahal, or Tim Duffy, founder of the Music Maker Relief Foundation, and you’ll quickly understand how deeply they grasp this. So it’s no surprise that their shared love of blues has created a special vinyl-only album release that’s got the loose, easy feel of a porch-sitting guitar strum, sipping sweet tea on a warm summer day. Labor of Love comprises recordings made by Duffy, hanging out with Taj and other artists in a Houston hotel room and during visits to the Music Maker Relief Foundation headquarters in Hillsborough, North Carolina. Taj and Tim first connected in the mid-1990s as Tim was establishing the foundation. The foundation is dedicated to preserving Southern roots music by directly supporting senior artists in need, while documenting their music and sharing their stage and recording talents with the world. A CD collection released by the foundation featuring Music Maker artists caught Taj’s attention. Tim invited Taj to his place in rural Pinnacle, N.C., where he hung out with several of the artists. Taj loved how they played and sang, but he especially loved “getting to know their lives and how they made things work.” Not much time passed before a performing tour was launched, with Taj as the headliner. Meanwhile, Tim, sensing an incredibly rich opportunity, was hauling along with the tour, high-end recording gear. He set it up in hotel rooms hoping to capture an impromptu session. One night in Houston, magic happened. A few senior bluesmen, Tim, Taj and the daughter of Katie Mae, immortalized in the Lightin’ Hopkins classic “Katie Mae Blues” hung out together in a hotel room in Houston. Taj picked up an acoustic guitar and started in on classic tunes — “Stack-O-Lee,” “Walking Blues,” and more. The tape was rolling. During the time of the tour, Taj was also visiting during hang-out, barbecue and recording sessions at Music Maker’s new North Carolina headquarters in Hillsborough. When the music got going, Taj would play some piano, bass, harp, banjo, mandolin and whatever else was needed. Now is the time for these immortalized sessions to be heard. So here they are on a solid piece of wax. And what wax it is — a full-on 200-gram vinyl Analogue Productions masterpiece plated and pressed at Quality Record Pressings, maker of the world’s best-sounding LPs. Packaged in a Stoughton Printing tip-on gatefold jacket. You won’t find a more intimate portrayal of Taj as a freewheeling, fun-loving, always-in-the-pocket sideman. Artist Taj Mahal Genre Blues Label Analogue Productions Buying Options 200g 2LP Format 200g , 2LP Condition New Country United States of America Track Listings 1. Stack-O-Lee 2. Shortnin' Bread (with Neal Patman) 3. My Creole Belle 4. I Ain't The One You Love (with Algia Mae Hinton) 5. Fishing Blues 6. Mistreating Blues (with John Dee Holeman) 7. African Wysie 8. So Sweet (with Cootie Stark) 9. Klondike Gold 10. Hambone (with John Dee Holeman) 11. Walking Blues 12. John Henry (with Etta Baker) 13. 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