Taj Mahal on mandolin?
I'm reading Taj Mahal: Autobiography of A Bluesman, and learned that Taj has played mandolin since his teens or early twenties. Does anyone know whether he's been recorded playing mandolin? There's a mandolin on "Fishin' Blues," but he's not playing. By the way, it's a good book from an intelligent, thoughtful man with decent values, though not great entertainment for those with fantasies of "the blues lifestyle."
Robert Johnson's mother, describing blues musicians:
"I never did have no trouble with him until he got big enough to be round with bigger boys and off from home. Then he used to follow all these harp blowers, mandoleen (sic) and guitar players."
Lomax, Alan, The Land where The Blues Began, NY: Pantheon, 1993, p.14.
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