Music Keeps Me Together ; Satisfied 'N Tickled Too (1976)

"Taj Mahal's musicologists approach to African-based roots music - which saw the singer and multi-instrumentalist exploring fusions of reggae, Caribbean folk, jazz, gospel, R&B, zydeco, various West African styles, and, of course, traditional country blues - was often a sort of hit-or-miss process, and if he now seems to be the clear forerunner of contemporary blues artists like Keb' Mo', Guy Davis, Corey Harris, and Alvin Youngblood Hart, Mahal was out there on his own stylistic island in the 1960s and 1970s, a maverick who confused traditionalists. This interest in what came to be known as world music seems obvious now, but when the LPs combined in this set, 1975s "Music Keeps Me Together" (which explored Jamaican and Caribbean rhythms) and 1976s "Satisfied N Tickled Too" (which contained almost no blues at all and was more an R&B album with some reggae tossed in), were released, few understood what he was aiming for, but here's where he got the ball rolling." (Steve Legett, Allmusic; 3 uit 5 sterren)

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