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Etta Baker with Taj Mahal
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Album Details: Etta Baker with Taj Mahal

Release Date:10/05/2004
Label:Music Maker
UPC:601163000502

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  • All Music Guide

    There really isn't much Taj Mahal on this album, but that's okay, since Etta Baker is a National Treasure all on her own. Baker has been playing guitar since she was threeyears old, and is now well into her ninth decade doing it, which is amazing in itself, but what makes the jaw drop here is her total command of the instrument. Arguably the last of the true Piedmont blues guitarists, Baker may have slowed a bit over the years, but not much, and her new version of her trademark "Railroad Bill" included here is only a half step behind her famous 1956 recording of it (which is also included), and the precision and tone of her playing on the piece is still breathtaking. This is sort of a patchwork album, with six new recordings featuring Taj Mahal as an accompanist stitched in with six songs of Baker recorded solo by her friend, Wayne Martin, and rounded off with the original seven tracks she made for folk singer Paul Clayton back in 1956, the tracks which introduced her to the world. The... sequence still moves fairly seamlessly, though, and shows off Baker's versatility, as she tackles slide on "John Henry," electric guitar (don't worry, it works) on "Madison Street Blues," and banjo on a vigorous version of "Cripple Creek." Any Etta Baker album makes a fine introduction to her enduring art, since she has never taken a day off on guitar in her life, but having the original Clayton tracks gathered together with more recent recordings makes this one feel a bit like a retrospective, and it shows that this amazing lady has been awfully good for an awfully long time. - Steve Leggett , All Music Guide Read more Less

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Biography

Etta Baker

Guitarist Etta Baker quietly enjoyed one of the blues' most enduring careers, working in almost total obscurity and recording only on the rarest of occasions while honing her craft throughout the greater part of the 20th century. Born in Caldwell County, North Carolina on March 31, 1913, she was the product of a musical family, taking up the guitar as a child and learni... Read more