Taj Mahal’s newest record, Labor of Love (releasing tomorrow, Dec. 16), is his first in four years. and was originally recorded in a hotel room in 1998. The story of the recording is in itself worth hearing: In the late-’90s, Tim Duffy, founder of the non-profit Music Maker Relief Foundation, was overseeing a 42-city tour of artists (sponsored, somehow poetically, by Winston cigarettes) — generally American roots acts who may have missed their career’s second wind — in support of them and his newly formed organization.
Full review here: Billboard
