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Taj Mahal - Blue Light Boogie (1999)

Track listing:
  1. River Of Love 4:07
  2. Honky Tonk Women 4:39
  3. Don't Call Us 4:19
  4. Take A Giant Step 4:38
  5. Down Home Girl 3:43
  6. Feets Don't Fail Me Now 3:19
  7. Dark Angel 3:25
  8. Big Legged Mommas Are Back In Style 4:18
  9. John The Revelator 3:54
  10. Blue Light Boogie 4:04
  11. She Caught The Key 3:41
  12. Mercedes Benz 3:14

Notes

Blue Light Boogie is a compilation drawn from Taj Mahal's work for the Private Music label during the '90s, specifically the albums Like Never Before (1991) and Dancing the Blues (1993); there's also an ample and varied helping of covers ranging from traditional, rural blues to rock & roll. It's sort of an odd tactic for a compilation, given that The Best of the Private Years, released a year later, doesn't duplicate any of this material; as a result, that supposedly balanced introduction ends up skewed away from Blue Light Boogie's sources, not featuring any songs from Like Never Before. Still, even if all of this is a ham-handed way for a record company to handle an artist's discography, Blue Light Boogie is overall a pretty decent sampler and an entertaining listen. Just don't expect an introduction to Mahal's '90s recordings that has any sense of completeness.