Exactly why Henry Saint Clair Fredericks, better known as Taj Mahal, has never been hoisted shoulder high as the quintessential bluesman to emerge from the 1960s remains a mystery that may be never be explained. But we'll have a go. Early in the 20th century, blues was largely a rural acoustic music. It didn't emerge into the popular mainstream until the mid-1960s, by which time it had evolved into an urban electric form.
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