{"id":13019,"date":"2017-07-26T05:45:08","date_gmt":"2017-07-26T09:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=13019"},"modified":"2017-07-26T07:34:06","modified_gmt":"2017-07-26T11:34:06","slug":"album-mini-review-tajmo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2017\/07\/26\/album-mini-review-tajmo\/","title":{"rendered":"Album Mini-review: TajMo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13020\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/tajmo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/tajmo.jpg 350w, http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/tajmo-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/tajmo-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/>File next to: BB King, Ry Cooder<\/p>\n<p>The cover of John and Yoko&#8217;s <i>Two Virgins<\/i> features a Paul McCartney quote: \u201cWhen two great saints meet, it is a humbling experience.\u201d While \u2013 then as now \u2013 it&#8217;s difficult to receive that quote with a straight face, if applied elsewhere it can actually mean something. Case in point is <i>TajMo<\/i>, the first collaborative effort from two giants in blues\/roots music. Taj Mahal&#8217;s reputation is legendary; he explored world and roots music before those terms came into wide use. And while at 65 he&#8217;s a decade younger, Keb&#8217; Mo&#8217; is perhaps the prime current-day exponent of Delta blues. Together the two guitarist-vocalists make a modern blues record that&#8217;s both an exemplar of mainstream accessibility and true to the blues aesthetic. <i>TajMo<\/i> is that rarest of superstar team-ups: one that actually makes sense, sounds terrific and \u2013 best of all \u2013 showcases the strengths of both artists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>File next to: BB King, Ry Cooder The cover of John and Yoko&#8217;s Two Virgins features a Paul McCartney quote: \u201cWhen two great saints meet, it is a humbling experience.\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13020,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,9,49,65],"tags":[3111,3110,3109],"class_list":["post-13019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-americana","category-blues","category-new-release","category-review","tag-keb-mo","tag-taj-mahal","tag-tajmo","cat-6-id","cat-9-id","cat-49-id","cat-65-id","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13019"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13022,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13019\/revisions\/13022"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}