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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)
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- The Register Guard (Eugene, OR)
- Article date:
- April 1, 2005
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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.
"The record companies got the whole thing constipated. You know what I'm sayin'?" Taj Mahal says. "That's all you get!"
He's talking about most of the stuff young music artists put out today. Stuff packaged in a studio. Stuff ...