The Country, Folk & World Recommendation Thread

[Drjohnrock]

Originally Posted by Safar

Steve Riley & The Mamou Playboys - La Danse de Mardi Gras (USA)

I love cajun, zydeco, and just about any other music from southern Louisiana and New Orleans. I've heard about this group for years but this is the first song I've heard by them. It updates cajun music without compromising its essence. Thanks for posting this, Safar.

[Safar]

Thanks for your comment, Drjohnrock. I think I listened to Steve Riley & The Mamou Playboys some time ago without giving them the attention they deserve.
I like how they start their Sundays in New Orleans.

“When you meet Taj Mahal, it's like a day with an extra helping of cake,” explains Linda Ronstadt. The singer talks about Taj Mahal, one of the most fearless blues musicians of the twentieth century.
With a lot of tradition and just as much experimentation, he saves the blues from insignificance. Despite its massive influence on pretty much all major popular styles, the blues as a genre in its own right is still only a niche music.

Taj Mahal - Queen Bee (USA)

Recorded in Nashville with Keb’ and Taj co-producing, Room On The Porch finds the pair in peak form, playing to each other’s strengths and opening up new creative horizons more than a half-century into their storied careers. The songs are warm and inviting here, rooted in the joy of human connection and the power of positivity, and the performances are as timeless as they are adventurous, incorporating the full spectrum of American roots music from blues and jazz to folk and country.

TajMo - Room On The Porch feat. Ruby Amanfu (USA)

[Safar]

The Soul Brothers, formed in KwaZulu-Natal province in the mid-1970s by the late vocalist David Masondo and keyboardist Black Moses Ngwenya (and still working as a band today, though with new players), was the outfit that shaped the sound of South African mbaqanga. That’s the name of a popular genre blending traditional African vocal styles and lyrical tropes with transformed borrowings from western pop. It grew from a predominantly Zulu-speaking fanbase to dominate Black South African hit parades for more than a decade.

Soul Brothers - Mama Ka Sibongile (South Africa)