Happy Just to Be Like I Am
| Happy Just to Be Like I Am | ||||
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| Studio album by | ||||
| Released | 1971[1] | |||
| Genre | Blues | |||
| Length | 42:36 | |||
| Label | Columbia | |||
| Producer | Taj Mahal, David Rubinson | |||
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Happy Just to Be Like I Am is the fourth studio album by American blues artist Taj Mahal.[1]
Reception
[edit | edit source]Christgau's Record Guide said in their review: "this relaxed, witty survey of musical Afro-America is strongest when its compositions verge on interpretations".[2] Disc and Music Echo called it a "fine album, it's funky and it's gutsy, and there's splended brass on it".[5] Rolling Stone Magazine said it is a "loose riotous blues 'n roots album", and that Taj Mahal is "nearly alone carrying the torch of the country music blues for other young black musicians to hear".[5]
Eric Zoeckler wrote in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch that it is the "unconventional mixture of instruments, Taj's six-holed fife, a section of four tubas, gung-ko-gwees, flugelhorns and steel bodied guitars, that makes this recording the delight that it is".[6]
Track listing
[edit | edit source]All tracks composed by Taj Mahal; except where indicated
- "Happy Just to Be Like I Am" (3:49)
- "Stealin'" (Gus Cannon) (6:58)
- "Oh, Susannah" (Traditional) (5:19)
- "Eighteen Hammers" (5:45)
- "Tomorrow May Not Be Your Day" (4:14)
- "Chevrolet" (Ed Young, Lonnie Young) (2:45)
- "West Indian Revelation (AKA West Indian Reservation)" (6:09)
- "Black Spirit Boogie" (7:10)[1]
Personnel
[edit | edit source]- Taj Mahal - guitar, steel guitar, mandolin
- Bill Rich - bass
- Howard Johnson - baritone saxophone
- Jesse Ed Davis - guitar on "Oh Susanna" and "Chevrolet"
- Earl McIntyre - trombone
- Andy Narell - steel drums on "West Indian Revelation"
- John Simon - piano
- Hoshal Wright - guitar
- Kwasi "Rocky" Dzidzornu - conga
- Bob Stewart - flugelhorn
- Joseph Daley - tuba
- James Charles Otey, Jr. - drums[7]
- Technical
- Glen Kolotkin - engineer
- John Simon, Taj Mahal - mixing[7]
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