Taj Mahal - Taj Mahal (1968)
Taj Mahal - Taj Mahal (1968)
Blues| EAC rip (FLAC+CUE+LOG) | 214 MB | full artwork
Columbia (2000) | 33:02 | RAR with 5% recovery
Blues| EAC rip (FLAC+CUE+LOG) | 214 MB | full artwork
Columbia (2000) | 33:02 | RAR with 5% recovery
EAC extraction logfile from 2. February 2010, 13:20
Taj Mahal / Taj Mahal
Used drive : _NEC DVD_RW ND-3500AG Adapter: 0 ID: 0
Read mode : Secure
Utilize accurate stream : Yes
Defeat audio cache : Yes
Make use of C2 pointers : No
Read offset correction : 48
Overread into Lead-In and Lead-Out : No
Fill up missing offset samples with silence : Yes
Delete leading and trailing silent blocks : No
Null samples used in CRC calculations : Yes
Used interface : Native Win32 interface for Win NT & 2000
Used output format : User Defined Encoder
Selected bitrate : 768 kBit/s
Quality : High
Add ID3 tag : No
Command line compressor : C:\Program Files\Exact Audio Copy\FLAC\FLAC.EXE
Additional command line options : -6 -V -T "ARTIST=%a" -T "TITLE=%t" -T "ALBUM=%g" -T "DATE=%y" -T "TRACKNUMBER=%n" -T "GENRE=%m" -T "COMMENT=%e" %s -o %d
TOC of the extracted CD
Track | Start | Length | Start sector | End sector
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1 | 0:00.00 | 4:51.05 | 0 | 21829
2 | 4:51.05 | 2:59.47 | 21830 | 35301
3 | 7:50.52 | 4:55.00 | 35302 | 57426
4 | 12:45.52 | 2:57.20 | 57427 | 70721
5 | 15:42.72 | 3:04.25 | 70722 | 84546
6 | 18:47.22 | 2:39.33 | 84547 | 96504
7 | 21:26.55 | 2:42.17 | 96505 | 108671
8 | 24:08.72 | 8:52.15 | 108672 | 148586
Range status and errors
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Filename J:\eMusic\Rip\Taj Mahal - Taj Mahal.wav
Peak level 100.0 %
Range quality 100.0 %
Test CRC 0186B774
Copy CRC 0186B774
Copy OK
No errors occurred
AccurateRip summary
Track 1 accurately ripped (confidence 19) [D027101D]
Track 2 accurately ripped (confidence 19) [F86B0EF0]
Track 3 accurately ripped (confidence 19) [2653B4C1]
Track 4 accurately ripped (confidence 19) [121AA4C3]
Track 5 accurately ripped (confidence 19) [A560D945]
Track 6 accurately ripped (confidence 19) [211EAA66]
Track 7 accurately ripped (confidence 19) [BB05EBA8]
Track 8 accurately ripped (confidence 19) [306F7F82]
All tracks accurately ripped
End of status report
Taj Mahal / Taj Mahal
Used drive : _NEC DVD_RW ND-3500AG Adapter: 0 ID: 0
Read mode : Secure
Utilize accurate stream : Yes
Defeat audio cache : Yes
Make use of C2 pointers : No
Read offset correction : 48
Overread into Lead-In and Lead-Out : No
Fill up missing offset samples with silence : Yes
Delete leading and trailing silent blocks : No
Null samples used in CRC calculations : Yes
Used interface : Native Win32 interface for Win NT & 2000
Used output format : User Defined Encoder
Selected bitrate : 768 kBit/s
Quality : High
Add ID3 tag : No
Command line compressor : C:\Program Files\Exact Audio Copy\FLAC\FLAC.EXE
Additional command line options : -6 -V -T "ARTIST=%a" -T "TITLE=%t" -T "ALBUM=%g" -T "DATE=%y" -T "TRACKNUMBER=%n" -T "GENRE=%m" -T "COMMENT=%e" %s -o %d
TOC of the extracted CD
Track | Start | Length | Start sector | End sector
––––––––––––––––––––––––––––-
1 | 0:00.00 | 4:51.05 | 0 | 21829
2 | 4:51.05 | 2:59.47 | 21830 | 35301
3 | 7:50.52 | 4:55.00 | 35302 | 57426
4 | 12:45.52 | 2:57.20 | 57427 | 70721
5 | 15:42.72 | 3:04.25 | 70722 | 84546
6 | 18:47.22 | 2:39.33 | 84547 | 96504
7 | 21:26.55 | 2:42.17 | 96505 | 108671
8 | 24:08.72 | 8:52.15 | 108672 | 148586
Range status and errors
Selected range
Filename J:\eMusic\Rip\Taj Mahal - Taj Mahal.wav
Peak level 100.0 %
Range quality 100.0 %
Test CRC 0186B774
Copy CRC 0186B774
Copy OK
No errors occurred
AccurateRip summary
Track 1 accurately ripped (confidence 19) [D027101D]
Track 2 accurately ripped (confidence 19) [F86B0EF0]
Track 3 accurately ripped (confidence 19) [2653B4C1]
Track 4 accurately ripped (confidence 19) [121AA4C3]
Track 5 accurately ripped (confidence 19) [A560D945]
Track 6 accurately ripped (confidence 19) [211EAA66]
Track 7 accurately ripped (confidence 19) [BB05EBA8]
Track 8 accurately ripped (confidence 19) [306F7F82]
All tracks accurately ripped
End of status report
Taj Mahal'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 Taj Mahal's slide work (which had the subtlety of a classical performance), Jesse Ed Davis's lead playing, and rhythm work by Ry Cooder and Bill Boatman, 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 Sleepy John Estes' "Diving Duck Blues," with textures resembling the mix on the early Cream albums, while "The Celebrated Walkin' Blues" (even with Cooder's animated mandolin weaving its spell on one side of the stereo mix) has the sound of a late '40s Chess release by Muddy Waters. Blind Willie McTell ("Statesboro Blues") and Robert Johnson ("Dust My Broom") are also represented, in what had to be one of the most quietly, defiantly iconoclastic records of 1968. - by Bruce Eder, AMG
Tracks:
1. Leaving Trunk (Sleepy John Estes) 4:51
2. Statesboro Blues (Willie McTell) 2:59
3. Checkin' Up On My Baby (Sonny Boy Williamson) 4:54
4. Everybody's Got To Change Sometime (Sleepy John Estes) 2:57
5. EZ Rider (Taj Mahal) 3:03
6. Dust My Broom (Robert Johnson) 2:39
7. Diving Duck Blues (Sleepy John Estes) 2:41
8. The Celebrated Walkin' Blues (Traditional/arr. Taj Mahal) 8:55
Personnel:
Taj Mahal (Vocals, Guitar, Mandolin and Harp)
Jessie Edwin Davis (Guitar) - 1-7
Ry Cooder (Rhythm Guitar) - 1,2,4,5,8
James Thomas (Bass Guitar) - 1,2,4,5
Samford Konikoff (Drums) - 1,2,4,5
Bill Boatman (Rhythm Guitar) - 6,7
Gary Gilmore (Bass Guitar) - 6,7
Charles Blackwell (Drums) - 6,7
reup: 28 December 2010