Though his career began more than four decades ago with American blues, two-time Grammy winner Taj Mahal has come to include music the of Caribbean, Latin America, Europe, the Hawaiian islands and West Africa in his artistic scope. He has performed and recorded with such international stars as Angelique Kidjo, the Hula Blues Band, Ziggy Marley and African kora player Toumani Diabate

Such wide-ranging interests dovetail beautifully with Malian guitar hero Vieux Farka Touré, who has been turning heads with his efforts to integrate the sounds of the Western Sahara with everything from jam band music and Jamaican dub. TajBlues.com