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Rising Sons
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Rising Sons was a short-lived mid-1960s blues and R&B group, featuring Ry Cooder and Taj Mahal. The original lineup was a 17-year-old Ry Cooder (vocals, six and 12-string guitar, mandolin, slide and bottleneck guitar, dobro), Taj Mahal (vocals, harmonica, guitar, piano), Gary Marker (bass), Jesse Lee Kincaid (born Nick Gerlach; vocals and guitar) and Ed Cassidy (drums). Cassidy had to leave in 1965 after he injured his wrist playing an epic version of "Statesboro Blues" and was replaced by Kevin Kelley (Cassidy went on to be a founder member of rock group Spirit in 1967). The Rising Sons are one of the great what-might-have-been stories of Sixties rock. For a few brief moments in 1965 and '66, the Sons were the club band to beat in Los Angeles, tearing it up with a dynamic ménage à trois of ardent folk-blues scholarship, brawny Delta grind and Beatlesque pop vigor. But after a lone Columbia single flopped and a projected album was scrapped, the Sons broke up and became a legend of sorts, famous mostly for their future cachet. Bluesman Taj Mahal, then fresh from the Boston hootenanny scene, was one of the Sons' two singers; roots-guitar god Ry Cooder, still in his teens at the time, was the band's prodigious lead picker. The Sons deserved better. These twenty-two rousing and mostly unreleased performances from the Columbia vaults show the Rising Sons to be the missing link between Beatlemania and the late-Sixties electric-blues explosion, an exciting, highly commercial prop
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Rising Sons Featuring Taj Mahal & Ry Cooder
Rising Sons Featuring Taj Mahal and Ry Cooder
Rising Sons
Where the Action Is! Los Angeles Nuggets 1965-1968 Disc 1
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The Complete Taj Mahal On Columbia Records
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Where The Action Is!: Los Angeles Nuggets 1965-1968 [Disc 1]
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Taj Mahal & Ry Cooder
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I Know
Where the Action Is! Los Angeles Nuggets 1965-1968
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Where The Action Is!: Los Angeles Nuggets 1965-1968
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With You
Mindrocker Vol. 07