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Mule Bone
Blues · 1991 · 10 tracks · 33m

Mule Bone

Taj Mahal

A sparse, banjo-led collaboration with the ghost of Langston Hughes. Acoustic blues that feels like a dusty, sun-drenched porch in the 1930s.

March 12, 1991 · Gramavision

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A warm, dusty, and literate celebration of rural Black American life.

Tracklist · 10 Tracks · 33m
01
Jubilee
2:11
02
Graveyard Mule
2:33
03
Me and the Mule
2:04
04
Song for a Banjo Dance
2:08
05
But I Rode Some
2:27
06
Hey Hey Blues
3:58
07
Shake That Thing
3:20
08
The Intermission Blues
3:33
10
Bound No'th Blues
4:39
11
Finale
4:09
Moments Worth Waiting For
The rhythmic mimicry of a mule's gait through the syncopated banjo plucking on Me and the Mule.
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