Now, with Cooder aged 75 and Mahal nearly 80, they have recorded their first album together in 56 years – a tribute to Cooder’s early heroes that has the same title, a similar cover, but not quite the same track list, as an album that Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee released in 1952 on which they were joined by Coyal McMahan on maracas and billed as the Folkmasters. Photograph: Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images
Both became cult heroes for re-working the blues, both worked with the Rolling Stones, both have recorded exquisite albums with Malian stars, and have earned eight Grammys between them.
Ry had become a session musician for Neil Young, Captain Beefheart and more, then a versatile guitar hero under his own name, exploring a wide range of American and global styles (he would later travel to Havana to play a crucial role in the success of the Buena Vista Social Club), while Mahal had his own successful solo career. They recorded an album that was rejected by the record company, but eventually appeared in 1992, by which time Cooder and Mahal were big stars. Three years later Cooder would be on the same stage, playing guitar in a blues band, the Rising Sons, that included Taj Mahal, a young singer and multi-instrumentalist who shared his tastes. Particularly if you come from Santa Monica – a wasteland of nothingness!” When you are that age everything you encounter – at least for me, in music – is a tremendous revelation. And Sonny was hanging on to him, because he was blind. “They came through the audience,” Cooder says, “and Brownie was walking with difficulty, with a built-up shoe, having had polio. The harmonica and guitar-playing folk-blues duo were appearing at a small club in West Hollywood called the Ash Grove. “Just their walk to the stage was unbelievably dramatic,” he remembers. Hey, you win some, you lose some.R y Cooder was just 14 when he first saw Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee playing live. The Twitterverse felt for Madison, and were skeptical that the amber was fake from the start.įacebook fans had the same feeling he would be out $200. Harrison said the rock was likely made of Bakelite, which is used to simulate Amber. Madison got the rock when he was just 10 years old, so he was pretty stunned.
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