Taj Mahal & Ry Cooder - Get On Board LP

Taj Mahal and Ry Cooder Reunite After a Half-Century with New Album of Music from Two Piedmont Blues Masters: Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee 2023 Grammy Award-Winner for Best Traditional Blues Album Nearly sixty years after they first played together, Ry Cooder and Taj Mahal, longtime friends and collaborators, reunite with an album of music from two Piedmont blues masters who have inspired them all their lives: Get on Board: The Songs of Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee. With Taj on vocals, harmonica, guitar, and piano and Cooder on vocals, guitar, mandolin, and banjo – joined by Joachim Cooder on drums and bass – the duo recorded eleven songs drawn from recordings and live performances by Terry and McGhee, who they both first heard as teenagers in California. Mahal and Cooder originally joined forces in 1965, forming The Rising Sons when Cooder was just seventeen. The band was signed to Columbia Records but an album was not released and the group disbanded a year later. The 1960s recor