Article: For Taj Mahal, music is a living, growing thing.(Entertainment)(He tends his own garden of sound and can't abide that prepackaged stuff)

Byline: Mark Baker The Register-Guard

"I walk with the energy of music every day. I don't have to turn it on to hear it play."

- Taj Mahal

Taj Mahal is rapping. In your ear. Through the tele- phone.

You're tempted to put him on speaker phone. You want the whole office to hear. It's monotonous and punctuated with puckered lips and measured breaths and rapping and tapping - and that's the point.

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