Taj Mahal: Autobiography Of A Bluesman

In the course of his unique thirty-year career, Taj Mahal has embraced the blues, folk, reggae, R&B, gospel, rock’n’roll, zydeco, Caribbean, African and Hawaiian music, and has worked with and influenced some of the greatest musicians of our time. Mick Jagger, John Lee Hooker, Linda Ronstadt, Bonnie Raitt and Keb’ Mo’ are just a few of the starts who tell their own stories of this influential musician. Others recount tales of touring in an African war zone; of putting together revolutionary bands; and of playing ‘inside a song’ with Taj.

Off-stage, the double Grammy award-winner steps out of the shadows and invites the reader into his private life. He tells of personal tragedies previously not revealed. His immediate family talk of their brother, their husband and their father with frank sincerity. The result is this astonishingly honest account of the life of a bluesman.