Taj
Studio album by Taj Mahal
Released	1987
Genre	Blues
Label	Gramavision
Producer	Taj Mahal
Taj Mahal chronology
Going Home (1980) Taj (1987) Shake Sugaree (1988)

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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

1. "Everybody is Somebody" (The Mighty Shadow)
2. "Paradise"
3. "Do I Love Her"
4. "Light of the Pacific" (Toni Fonoti)
5. "'Deed I Do"
6. "Soothin'" (Jae Mason)
7. "Pillow Talk" (Michael Burton, Sylvia Robinson)
8. "Local Local Girl"
9. "Kauai Kalypso"
10. "French Letter" (Toni Fonoti)^[1]

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 - drums
• Chris Simpson - nylon stringed Spanish guitar
• Tony Jones - electric bass, electric guitar
• Fred Lunt^[2] - steel guitar
• Jesse Ed Davis - lead guitar
• Kenny Lee Lewis - rhythm guitar
• Reggie Lucas - guitar
• Rudy Costa - alto saxophone
• Ron Brown - tenor saxophone
• Fernando Pullum - trumpet
• Larry Gittens - trumpet
• Garnett Brown - trombone
• Duane Benjamin - trombone
• Melody McCully - background vocals
• Pamela Vincent - background vocals
• Joyce Wilson - background vocals^[3]

References