“In episode 3 of the podcast series American Songster Radio, host Dom Flemons calls on blues legend Taj Mahal for a conversation about their mutual love of the banjo and its complicated history.

“All the pictures and caricatures of those black-faced minstrels really seemed to be degrading. But the instrument itself – there was something about it. It would rattle in my bones,” Taj Mahal says of his early connections with an instrument.”  Listen and read more here.

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