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Taj Mahal

Taj Mahal

Taj Mahal is an American blues musician, a self-taught singer-songwriter and film composer who plays the guitar, piano, banjo, and harmonica, among many other instruments.

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Movies Starring Taj Mahal (34)

Goddess of Slide: The Forgotten Story of Ellen McIlwaine (2024)

Celebrates the legendary – and largely forgotten – Canadian musician who fought for her right to play the slide guitar, a male-dominated instrument in a male-dominated world. Eight months after arriving in Greenwich Village with no prospects, she found ...

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Born to Be Wild: The Story of Steppenwolf (2024)

Steppenwolf is one of the most legendary and at the same time most enigmatic bands in the history of rock music. On the border between mainstream and psychedelic underground, their song "Born to Be Wild" became the anthem of an entire generation. The new, ...

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Feast Your Ears: The Story of WHFS 102.3 FM (2023)

Built out of "a pile of radio junk," Bethesda, Maryland's WHFS was a music fan's dream of a radio station: the place on the dial to hear music listeners loved and new tunes they soon would, all with an anything-goes mentality and an ear for the sounds of s ...

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A Song for Cesar: Beware a Movement That Sings (2021)

Song for Cesar is a documentary film with a unique view of the life and legacy of Cesar Chavez and the farmworker movement. The film tells a previously untold story about the musicians and artists who dedicated their time, creativity and even reputations t ...

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Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and the Band (2020)

A confessional, cautionary, and occasionally humorous tale of Robbie Robertson's young life and the creation of one of the most enduring groups in the history of popular music, The Band. ...

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ReMastered: Devil at the Crossroads (2019)

Robert Johnson was one of the most influential blues guitarists ever. Even before his early death, fans wondered if he'd made a pact with the Devil. ...

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Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World (2017)

Documentary about the role of Native Americans in popular music history, a little-known story built around the incredible lives and careers of the some of the greatest music legends. ...

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Shake 'Em On Down (2016)

Shake 'Em On Down is a one-hour documentary film which aims to tell the story of Fred McDowell, who was first recorded by Alan Lomax in 1959, traveled to Europe with the Rolling Stones in the mid-1960s, mentored Bonnie Raitt, and served as the cornerstone ...

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The American Epic Sessions (2016)

Jack White and T Bone Burnett invite today's greatest artists to test their skills against the long-lost machine that recorded their musical idols and forebears. The producers have, over a decade rebuilt, a 1920s recording system, timed by a weight-driven ...

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ACL Presents: Americana Music Festival 2014 (2014)

Austin City Limits (ACL) heads to Nashville for a special broadcast featuring performance highlights from this year's Americana Honors & Awards. ACL Presents: Americana Music Festival 2014 premieres this Saturday, November 22, on PBS stations across the Un ...

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This Ain't No Mouse Music! (2014)

Loving, music-filled tribute to Chris Strachwitz, guiding force behind legendary roots music label Arhoolie Records. With Ry Cooder, Clifton Chenier, Richard Thompson, Flaco Jiménez and a new generation of roots musicians. ...

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All My Friends - Celebrating the Songs & Voice of Gregg Allman (2014)

All My Friends: Celebrating the Songs & Voice of Gregg Allman captures a once-in-a-lifetime performance, honoring one of the most acclaimed and beloved icons in rock and roll history. A founding member of the Allman Brothers Band and successful solo ar ...

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Eric Clapton's Crossroads Guitar Festival 2013 (2013)

Captured across two nights at Madison Square Garden, the Crossroads Guitar Festival offers a variety of legendary guitarists performing a mix of sultry blues, classic rock and country jams. ...

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Wynton Marsalis and Eric Clapton Play the Blues - Live from Jazz at Lincoln Center (2011)

New York City's premier jazz venue got the blues when Wynton Marsalis and Eric Clapton performed together in Rose Theater at Frederick P. Rose Hall, home of Jazz at Lincoln Center for two sold-out shows dedicated to vintage blues. The extraordinary collabo ...

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The People Speak (2009)

A look at America's struggles with war, class, race and women's rights. based on Howard Zinn's "A People's History of the United States. ...

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Buffy Sainte-Marie: A Multimedia Life (2006)

Buffy Sainte-Marie is best known for her protest songs (Universal Soldier) and her love songs (Up Where We Belong). This one-hour documentary chronicles her remarkable career as she rises to prominence in the 1960s Greenwich Village folk music scene and bl ...

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Killer Diller (2004)

A guitar playing car thief meets an autistic savant piano player, and together they transform a group of reluctant halfway house convicts into The Killer Diller Blues Band. ...

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Nitty Gritty Dirt Band: Will the Circle Be Unbroken: Farther Along (2003)

Joined by friends and family for this very special celebratory concert -- a must-see event for country music fans -- the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band performs selections from their highly acclaimed "Will the Circle Be Unbroken" album series. One of the genre's m ...

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Feel Like Going Home (2003)

Martin Scorsese traces the roots of the blues from the Mississippi Delta back to West Africa, journeying from the juke joints of Mississippi to the banks of the Niger River in Mali. Featuring performances by Corey Harris, Taj Mahal, Keb' Mo', and Ali Farka ...

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Santana: Special Edition EP (2003)

Track listing : 1 - Intro (1min05) 2 - TAJ MAHAL : Riverside (1min40) 3 - TAJ MAHAL : Sweet Mama Genise (1min16) 4 - TAJ MAHAL : Oh Susannah (3min30) 5 - JOHNNY WINTER : Johnny B. Goode (5min35) 6 - JOHNNY WINTER feat. ...

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Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood (2002)

In a sleepy Louisiana parish, a group of lifelong friends stage a rather unorthodox intervention to help a young playwright unravel the truth about her complicated mother and let go of her painful past. ...

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Songcatcher (2001)

After being denied a promotion at the university where she teaches, Doctor Lily Penleric, a brilliant musicologist, impulsively visits her sister, who runs a struggling rural school in Appalachia. There she stumbles upon the discovery of her life - a treas ...

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Outside Ozona (1998)

A widowed trucker fends off isolation in the company of a dog named Girl, two bickering sisters try to reconcile their differences and a down-and-out circus clown and his stripper girlfriend must fight the temptation of crime on the road. Their common comp ...

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Six Days Seven Nights (1998)

In the South Pacific island of Makatea, career-driven magazine editor Robin Monroe is on a week-long vacation getaway with her boyfriend, Frank Martin. An emergency work assignment in neighboring Tahiti requires Robin to hire the cantankerous pilot Quinn H ...

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Blue Note - A Story of Modern Jazz (1997)

"It must schwing!" was the motto of Alfred Lion and Francis Wolff, two German Jewish immigrants who in 1939 set up Blue Note Records, the jazz label that was home to such greats as Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Herbie Hancock, Thelonious Monk, Art Blakey, De ...

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Blind Willie's Blues: A Documentary Film (1997)

Also known as Georgia Blues, this is a biopic of influential bluesman Blind Willie McTell. ...

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The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus (1996)

A 1968 event put together by The Rolling Stones. The film is comprised of two concerts on a circus stage and included such acts as The Who, Taj Mahal, Marianne Faithfull, and Jethro Tull. John Lennon and his fiancee Yoko Ono performed as part of a supergro ...

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Once Upon a Time... When We Were Colored (1996)

A narrator tells the story of his childhood years in a tightly knit Afro-American community in the deep south under racial segregation. ...

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Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey (1991)

Amiable slackers Bill and Ted are once again roped into a fantastical adventure when De Nomolos, a villain from the future, sends evil robot duplicates of the two lads to terminate and replace them. The robot doubles actually succeed in killing Bill and Te ...

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The Man Who Broke 1,000 Chains (1987)

The true story of Robert Elliot Burns, the prisoner who, after being sentenced to a Georgia chain gang, attempted two daring escapes. ...

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Taj Mahal and Friends (1987)

Live! February 19th, 1987. Palomino Club, North Hollywood, California. ...

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Scott Joplin (1977)

The life story of Scott Joplin and how he became the greatest ragtime composer of all time. ...

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Sounder, Part 2 (1976)

Poor black sharecroppers band together to build a school for their children. ...

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Sounder (1972)

The oldest son of a loving and strong family of black sharecroppers comes of age in the Depression-era South after his father is imprisoned for stealing food. ...

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Movies Made By Taj Mahal (10)

Outside Ozona (1998)

A widowed trucker fends off isolation in the company of a dog named Girl, two bickering sisters try to reconcile their differences and a down-and-out circus clown and his stripper girlfriend must fight the temptation of crime on the road. Their common comp ...

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Scrapple (1998)

Small-time drug dealer Al Dean is out for the ultimate score. But when Al and his friends adopt a pig, their laid-back summer plans get baked. Set in the '70s, Scrapple is a Colorado ski-town story of drugs, love, and a pig named Scrapple. ...

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Zebrahead (1992)

A white, hip-hop loving teen falls in love with a black girl in Detroit. ...

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Follow the Drinking Gourd (1990)

Based on the traditional American folksong, this compelling tale recounts the daring adventures of one family's escape from slavery via the Underground Railroad. This touching story captures all the drama of a perilous flight to freedom. Narrated by Morgan ...

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The Man Who Broke 1,000 Chains (1987)

The true story of Robert Elliot Burns, the prisoner who, after being sentenced to a Georgia chain gang, attempted two daring escapes. ...

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Brothers (1977)

Thinly disguised account of the relationship between radical black activist Angela Davis and Black Panther and prison inmate George Jackson, who was one of those killed in a failed 1971 prison breakout. ...

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Sounder, Part 2 (1976)

Poor black sharecroppers band together to build a school for their children. ...

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Almos' a Man (1976)

Although Dave (LeVar Burton) and his family are poor sharecroppers in the Deep South in the 1930s, this 15-year-old's problem is shared by teenagers today: he stands with one foot in adulthood and the other in childhood. "Almos' A Man", yet still treated l ...

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Fighting for Our Lives (1975)

Fighting for Our Lives is a 1975 documentary film produced and directed by Glen Pearcy. The film documents the striking of California grape workers from Coachella to Fresno as they negotiate for a United Farm Workers (UFW) contract in 1973. The film also d ...

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Sounder (1972)

The oldest son of a loving and strong family of black sharecroppers comes of age in the Depression-era South after his father is imprisoned for stealing food. ...

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