TAJ MAHAL & RY COODER

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

8/10

THE original Get On Board by blues icons Terry and McGhee was a 10” album released on the Folkways label in 1952, the eventual fruits of a partnership formed a decade earlier and which thrived well into the ’60s. The record’s contents were key texts in the early musical education of both Mahal and Cooder during their teenage years in California, and a shared love when both were members of The Rising Sons (although the band’s only album, recorded in ’65, went unreleased for more than quarter of a century).

However, this second set to bear the title is far