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Shake Sugaree
''Shake Sugaree - Taj Mahal Sings and Plays for Children'' is a 1988 album by American blues artist Taj Mahal. The title comes from one of the tracks, and was itself the title track of a 1967 album by Elizabeth Cotten, recorded in February 1965. Authorship of the song is attributed to Cotten. Track listing # "Fishin' Blues" # "Brown Girl in the Ring" # "Light Rain" # "Quavi, Quavi" # "Shake Sugaree" (Elizabeth Cotten Elizabeth "Libba" Cotten ( Nevills; January 5, 1893 – June 29, 1987) was an American folk and blues musician. She was a self-taught left-handed guitarist who played a guitar strung for a right-handed player, but played it upside down. This po ...) # "Funky Bluesy ABC's" # "Talkin' John Henry" # "Railroad Bill" # "A Soulful Tune" # "Little Brown Dog" Personnel *Taj Mahal - vocals, guitar, mandolin, harmonica *Ahmen Mahal, Deva Mahal - backing vocals References {{Authority control 1988 albums Taj Mahal (musician) albums Children's music albums by America ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Taj Mahal (musician)
Henry St. Claire Fredericks Jr. (born May 17, 1942), better known by his stage name Taj Mahal, is an American blues musician. He plays the guitar, piano, banjo, harmonica, and many other instruments,Evans, et al., xii. 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.Komara, 951. Early life Mahal was born Henry St. Claire Fredericks Jr. on May 17, 1942, in Harlem, New York City. Growing up in Springfield, Massachusetts, he was raised in a musical environment: his mother was a member of a local gospel choir and his father, Henry Saint Claire Fredericks Sr., was an Afro-Caribbean jazz arranger and piano player. His family owned a shortwave radio which received music broadcasts from around the world, exposing him at an early age to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kapaa, Hawaii
Kapaa (Kauai dialect: Tapaa) is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Kauai County, Hawaii, United States. It is the most populous town in the island of Kauai, with a population of 11,652 as of the 2020 census, up from 9,471 at the 2000 census. ''Kapaa'' is a Hawaiian adjective meaning "solid". Geography Kapaa is on the east side of Kauai at (22.088281, -159.337706). It is bordered to the south by the communities of Wailua and Wailua Homesteads and to the east by the Pacific Ocean. Hawaii Route 56 passes through the eastern part of the community, leading north to Anahola and south to Lihue. According to the United States Census Bureau, the Kapaa CDP has an area of , of which is land and (3.27%) is water. Demographics As of the census of 2000, there were 9,471 people, 3,129 households, and 2,281 families residing in the CDP. The population density was . There were 3,632 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the CDP w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blues
Blues is a music genre and musical form which originated in the Deep South of the United States around the 1860s. Blues incorporated spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts, chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads from the African-American culture. The blues form is ubiquitous in jazz, rhythm and blues, and rock and roll, and is characterized by the call-and-response pattern (the blues scale and specific chord progressions) of which the twelve-bar blues is the most common. Blue notes (or "worried notes"), usually thirds, fifths or sevenths flattened in pitch, are also an essential part of the sound. Blues shuffles or walking bass reinforce the trance-like rhythm and form a repetitive effect known as the groove. Blues as a genre is also characterized by its lyrics, bass lines, and instrumentation. Early traditional blues verses consisted of a single line repeated four times. It was only in the first decades of the 20th century that the most common current str ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Taj (Taj Mahal Album)
''Taj'' is an album by American blues artist Taj Mahal. The cover photograph was by Robert Mapplethorpe. Track listing All tracks composed by Taj Mahal; except where indicated # "Everybody is Somebody" (The Mighty Shadow) # "Paradise" # "Do I Love Her" # "Light of the Pacific" (Toni Fonoti) # "'Deed I Do" # "Soothin'" (Jae Mason) # "Pillow Talk" (Michael Burton, Sylvia Robinson) # "Local Local Girl" # "Kauai Kalypso" # "French Letter" (Toni Fonoti) Personnel * Taj Mahal - acoustic and electric guitars, bass, percussion, keyboards, lead and background vocals * Jeanette Acosta - synthesizer * Wayne Henderson - keyboards * Ray Fitzpatrick - bass, percussion * Inshirah Mahal - congas, percussion * Larry McDonald - congas, percussion * Babatunde Olatunji - djembe, congas, shekere, percussion * Ralph MacDonald - congas, tambourine, percussion * Robert Greenidge - steel drums, percussion * Ozzie Williams - drums, DBX drum programming * Kester Smith Kester Winston "Smitty" Smi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Live At Ronnie Scott's (Taj Mahal Album)
''Live at Ronnie Scott's'' is an album by American blues artist Taj Mahal recorded at Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club in 1988 and released in 1990. Track listing # "Big Blues" # "Mail Box Blues" # "Stagger Lee" # "Come On in My Kitchen" # "Local, Local Girl" # "Soothin'" # "Fishin' Blues "Fishing Blues" (also "Fishin' Blues") is a blues song written in 1911 by Chris Smith, who is best known for "Ballin' the Jack". "Fishing Blues" was first recorded in 1928 by "Ragtime Texas" Henry Thomas on vocals and guitar with the intro ..." # " Statesboro' Blues" # "Everybody Is Somebody" # "Taj Mahal Interview" References {{Authority control 1990 live albums Taj Mahal (musician) live albums Albums recorded at Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
AllMusic
AllMusic (previously known as All Music Guide and AMG) is an American online music database. It catalogs more than three million album entries and 30 million tracks, as well as information on musicians and bands. Initiated in 1991, the database was first made available on the Internet in 1994. AllMusic is owned by RhythmOne. History AllMusic was launched as ''All Music Guide'' by Michael Erlewine, a "compulsive archivist, noted astrologer, Buddhist scholar and musician". He became interested in using computers for his astrological work in the mid-1970s and founded a software company, Matrix, in 1977. In the early 1990s, as CDs replaced LPs as the dominant format for recorded music, Erlewine purchased what he thought was a CD of early recordings by Little Richard. After buying it he discovered it was a "flaccid latter-day rehash". Frustrated with the labeling, he researched using metadata to create a music guide. In 1990, in Big Rapids, Michigan, he founded ''All Music Guide' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Album
An album is a collection of audio recordings issued on compact disc (CD), Phonograph record, vinyl, audio tape, or another medium such as Digital distribution#Music, digital distribution. Albums of recorded sound were developed in the early 20th century as individual Phonograph record#78 rpm disc developments, 78 rpm records collected in a bound book resembling a photograph album; this format evolved after 1948 into single vinyl LP record, long-playing (LP) records played at revolutions per minute, rpm. The album was the dominant form of recorded music expression and consumption from the mid-1960s to the early 21st century, a period known as the album era. Vinyl LPs are still issued, though album sales in the 21st-century have mostly focused on CD and MP3 formats. The 8-track tape was the first tape format widely used alongside vinyl from 1965 until being phased out by 1983 and was gradually supplanted by the cassette tape during the 1970s and early 1980s; the populari ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United States
The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It consists of 50 states, a federal district, five major unincorporated territories, nine Minor Outlying Islands, and 326 Indian reservations. The United States is also in free association with three Pacific Island sovereign states: the Federated States of Micronesia, the Marshall Islands, and the Republic of Palau. It is the world's third-largest country by both land and total area. It shares land borders with Canada to its north and with Mexico to its south and has maritime borders with the Bahamas, Cuba, Russia, and other nations. With a population of over 333 million, it is the most populous country in the Americas and the third most populous in the world. The national capital of the United States is Washington, D.C. and its most populous city and principal financial center is New York City. Paleo-Americ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blues
Blues is a music genre and musical form which originated in the Deep South of the United States around the 1860s. Blues incorporated spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts, chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads from the African-American culture. The blues form is ubiquitous in jazz, rhythm and blues, and rock and roll, and is characterized by the call-and-response pattern (the blues scale and specific chord progressions) of which the twelve-bar blues is the most common. Blue notes (or "worried notes"), usually thirds, fifths or sevenths flattened in pitch, are also an essential part of the sound. Blues shuffles or walking bass reinforce the trance-like rhythm and form a repetitive effect known as the groove. Blues as a genre is also characterized by its lyrics, bass lines, and instrumentation. Early traditional blues verses consisted of a single line repeated four times. It was only in the first decades of the 20th century that the most common current str ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizabeth Cotten
Elizabeth "Libba" Cotten ( Nevills; January 5, 1893 – June 29, 1987) was an American folk and blues musician. She was a self-taught left-handed guitarist who played a guitar strung for a right-handed player, but played it upside down. This position meant that she would play the bass lines with her fingers and the melody with her thumb. Her signature alternating bass style has become known as "Cotten picking". Early life Cotten was born in 1893U.S. Federal Census, Chapel Hill. 1870, 1880, 1900. to a musical family near Chapel Hill, North Carolina, in an area that would later be incorporated as Carrboro. Her parents were George Nevill (also spelled Nevills) and Louisa (or Louise) Price Nevill. Elizabeth was the youngest of five children. She named herself on her first day of school, when the teacher asked her name, because at home she was only called "Li'l Sis". By the age of eight, she was playing songs. At age nine, she was forced to quit school and began work as a domestic wo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fishin' Blues
"Fishing Blues" (also "Fishin' Blues") is a blues song written in 1911 by Chris Smith, who is best known for "Ballin' the Jack". "Fishing Blues" was first recorded in 1928 by "Ragtime Texas" Henry Thomas on vocals and guitar with the introduction and breaks played on quills, a type of panpipe. It is Roud Folk Song Index No. 17692. The song ostensibly describes the pleasures of catching, cooking, and eating your own fish, particularly catfish. The refrain includes: Recordings * 1928Henry Thomas, 10-inch 78rpm single Vocalion 1249 * 1930s{?)Sam Chatmon, included on the 1979 album ''Sam Chatmon's Advice'' * 1964Mike Seeger, on the album ''Mike Seeger'' * 1965The Holy Modal Rounders, on the album ''The Holy Modal Rounders 2'' * 1965The Lovin' Spoonful, on the album ''Do You Believe in Magic'' * 1966Jim Kweskin and the Jug Band, on the album ''See Reverse Side for Title'' * 1968John Martyn, on the album ''The Tumbler'' * 1969Taj Mahal, on the album '' Giant Step/De Ole Folk ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1988 Albums
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