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Taj Mahal and Ry Cooder join forces for their first new album together in 57 years
Get On Board: The Songs Of Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee is the duo’s first full-length studio collaboration since the debut LP from their long-defunct band, the Rising Sons.
Before Taj Mahal and Ry Cooder became legendary electric guitar players with incredible, eclectic discographies, they were bandmates.
In the mid-1960s, the two cut their teeth in an L.A.-based band called the Rising Sons. Though the group gigged relentlessly in the area, signed to Columbia Records and won some high-profile admirers, their sole album (recorded in 1965) remained unreleased until 1992.
Now, 57 years later, Mahal and Cooder have reunited for a new album, Get On Board: The Songs Of Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee. Featuring Cooder on vocals, guitar, mandolin and banjo, Mahal on vocals, harmonica, guitar, and piano, and Ry’s son Joachim Cooder on drums and bass, the Piedmont blues covers album is set for an April 22 release
