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    Mar 04, 2022 3 minutes

    Ry Cooder & Taj Mahal

    Get On Board: The Songs Of Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee

    Nonesuch

    60-year collaborative rematch for blues roots superstars

    If anyone was going to take on the back catalogue of bluesmen Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee, there's no better than Ry Cooder and Taj Mahal. Mahal said of Terry and McGhee, “They were so solid. They meant what they said, they did what they did… Here’s two guys, a guitar player and a harmonica player, and they could make it sound like a whole orchestra.” To which Cooder adds, “It was perfect.

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