Room On The Porch Taj Mahal & Keb' Mo'

• 1 Room On The Porch 04:05
• 2 My Darling My Dear 03:58
• 3 Nobody Knows You When You’re Down And Out 03:42
• 4 She Keeps Me Movin’ 04:01
• 5 Make Up Your Mind 04:40
• 6 Thicker Than Mud 04:38
• 7 Junkyard Dog 04:20
• 8 Blues’ll Give You Back Your Soul 04:47
• 9 Better Than Ever 05:03
• 10 Rough Time Blues 04:31
• Total Runtime 43:45

Info for Room On The Porch

Mit „Room On The Porch“ präsentieren Taj Mahal & Keb’ Mo’ den lang ersehnten Nachfolger ihres mit einem GRAMMY ausgezeichneten Erfolgsalbums „TajMo“ aus 2017!

Die außergewöhnliche Kollaboration vereint zwei der besten noch lebenden Blues-Musiker – mit je 11 GRAMMYs sind beide zweifellos wahre Ikonen des Genres.

Den Auftakt der Albumkampagne bildet der Titeltrack „Room On The Porch“ mit der gefeierten Sängerin Ruby Amanfu. Die aus Ghana stammende und in Nashville aufgewachsene Singer-Songwriterin hat bereits für Alicia Keys, Brandi Carlile und H.E.R. geschrieben und war zwei Jahre lang Teil der Band von Jack White. Mit „Room On The Porch“ knüpfen Taj Mahal & Keb’ Mo’ nahtlos an ihren bisherigen Erfolg an und liefern ein weiteres musikalisches Highlight für Blues-Fans weltweit.

Die zehn Songs umfassende Sammlung ist die erste gemeinsame Veröffentlichung des Duos seit 2017, als ihre Debüt-Kollaboration TajMo sie von der Late Show mit Stephen Colbert (für einen atemberaubenden Auftritt an der Seite von Jon Batiste) über die Garage von Marc Maron bis hin zur GRAMMY-Bühne brachte (wo sie den Preis für das beste zeitgenössische Blues-Album erhielten). Während sie Lieblingsstücken wie „Junkyard Dog“ ihren unverkennbaren Stempel aufdrücken, enthält „Room On The Porch“ auch mehr originale, gemeinsam geschriebene Tracks des legendären Paares als je zuvor - sie spielen mit den Stärken des jeweils anderen und entdecken kreative Horizonte mehr als ein halbes Jahrhundert nach ihrer historischen Karriere.

Taj Mahal, Gitarre, Gesang
Keb' Mo', Gitarre, Gesang
Gäste:
Jon Batiste, Klavier
Ruby Amanfu, Gesang

Taj Mahal
Henry Saint Clair Fredericks, who goes by the stage name Taj Mahal, is an internationally recognized blues musician who folds various forms of world music into his offerings. A self-taught singer-songwriter who plays the guitar, banjo and harmonica (among many other instruments), Mahal has done much to reshape the definition and scope of blues music during his 40+ year career by fusing it with nontraditional forms, including sounds from the Caribbean, Africa and the South Pacific.

Keb’ Mo’
Kevin Moore better known by his stage name Keb’ Mo’ is an American blues singer and songwriter originally from Los Angeles, California.

Kevin Roosevelt Moore was born on 3 October 1951 in South Los Angeles, California and had an early appreciation for music, becoming a well-established guitarist by early adolescence. Throughout the 1970s and 1980s he played as backup for various bands, as well as started to record music with violinist Papa John Creach through an R&B group. It was Creach who hired him to play on four of his albums giving Keb’ Mo’ his first gold album.

In 1980 he made his first release with “Rainmaker” with the help of Chocolate City Records, and then was further immersed into blues music by becoming a part of the band, Whodunit. Keb’ Mo’ followed up with “Rainmaker” with a self-titled album in 1994 on Okeh Records. In 1996 he released “Just Like You” which earned him his first Grammy Award. He then became involved in the German rocker Peter Maffay’s music collective project called Begegnungen (Encounter). In 1998 Keb’ Mo’ released his next album entitled “Slow Down” followed shortly in 2000 by “The Door.” He even released a children’s album in 2000 entitled “Big Wide Grin” which featured many of the childhood songs that Mo’ grew up with, followed by a television appearance on the popular children’s television show, “Sesame Street.” The next album he released, “Keep It Simple” in 2004 earned him another Grammy Award, followed by “Suitecase” in 2006. He went on to release his first live album in 2009.

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