Sold Date: March 31, 2018
Start Date: March 29, 2018
Final Price: $19.00 (USD)
Seller Feedback: 1020
Buyer Feedback: 20

Vinyl:  EX+ Play Tested. Sounds Great!  Taj's First Record!!! A very wild and unrestrained first offering from Taj.  A definitive record, not to be missed!   Taj Mahal is one of the most influential blues musicians of the last 50 years.  He had a unique style that incorporated the blues, reggae, and world music.  He has won multiple Grammys.  This was his powerful debut, and it is one of his most acclaimed recordings.  This is a pure country blues collection with backing support from a powerful cast.  You’ll hear Jesse Ed Davis and Ry Cooder, among others.   Cover: VG+ (see photos; some ring wear)
Goldmine Standards.   I play test every album that I sell on eBay as I have found you can't rate an LP accurately by just visually inspecting an album.  
See Review Below!

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AllMusic Review by Bruce Eder 

's debut album was a startling statement in its time and has held up remarkably well. Recorded in August of 1967, it was as hard and exciting a mix of old and new blues sounds as surfaced on record in a year when even a lot of veteran blues artists (mostly at the insistence of their record labels) started turning toward psychedelia. The guitar virtuosity, embodied in 's slide work (which had the subtlety of a classical performance), 's lead playing, and rhythm work by  and , is of the neatly stripped-down variety that was alien to most records aiming for popular appeal, and the singer himself approached the music with a startling mix of authenticity and youthful enthusiasm. The whole record is a strange and compelling amalgam of stylistic and technical achievements -- filled with blues influences of the 1930s and 1940s, but also making use of stereo sound separation and the best recording technology. The result was numbers like ' "Diving Duck Blues," with textures resembling the mix on the early  albums, while "The Celebrated Walkin' Blues" (even with 's animated mandolin weaving its spell on one side of the stereo mix) has the sound of a late '40s Chess release by . ("Statesboro Blues") and  ("Dust My Broom") are also represented, in what had to be one of the most quietly, defiantly iconoclastic records of 1968.