"I think that there are several ways that you can come by the (blues) experience... One is being in the Delta, sharecropping and/or you be the next couple of generations that are the result of sharecropping in the Delta... But really the music is a cultural sound. It's an ancestral sound that has been warped in the relationship between Africans and Americans during the Colonial period in the United States.... Blues in this country goes from very sad music of a working-class people to a very joyful music that is listened to by people that are middle class and oftentimes even upper class...."
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Taj Mahal
Taj gets to the Root Of The Matter with Ellen Geisel in the latest issue of Dirty Linen.
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