Customer Reviews
Excellent - makes you want to listen to it again and again - By: , 10 Aug 2000 
I was expecting another good ol' blues album from Taj Mahal which would have been well worth waiting for anyway. Instead, I got one of those records that are very few & far between - one which made you sit down & really listen to every single second. This is not music just to have onin the background. This is music that should be given out free on the national health to make people feel better.
Friends who had never heard of Taj Mahal were stoppedin their tracks & asked for the volume to be turned up so that they listen more closely to the fantastic sounds.
Taj, give us more of the same please soon.
a really worthwhile exploration - By: Jamie Crofts, 08 Apr 2000 
This is a really worthwhile projectin which two of the best musicians alive today enjoy each other's music. Worth listening to for Queen Bee alone which works perfectly. I do share the doubts of the previous reviewer. I do wonder - why bother? but the answer to that has to be, for me - they did it & it works.
Slightly patchy exploration of the roots of the blues - By: B. A. Woodhouse, 15 Feb 2000 This CD is the result of a musical meeting between the blues of Taj Mahal & a Malian traditional Kora player, Diabate.In the somewhat breathless insert it describes this as being a revelation to Taj Mahal of the real West African origins of blues music. At times the two do make great music, rhythyms & voices combiningin synergy on the more traditional African tracks particularly well. The more 'blues' based tracks seem less convincing & Toumani's musicianship feels tacked on rather than fully integrated. Try the more traditional recordings of instrumental Kora music if this intrigues, especially 'New Ancient Strings' with Ballake Sissoko
