American Songwriter: Taj Mahal, Ry Cooder Announce New Album, ‘Get On Board: The Songs of Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee’
Taj Mahal and Ry Cooder have announced their new collaborative album, Get On Board: The Songs of Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee.
The new LP, which is set for release on April 22, is the duo’s first collaboration in more than a half-century.
To celebrate the announcement, the two musicians have released a new live video for the song, “Hooray Hooray,” which fans can watch below. “They were so solid. They meant what they said, they did what they did … here’s two guys, a guitar player, and a harmonica player, and they could make it sound like a whole orchestra,” Mahal said in a statement about his connection with Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee.