Get On Board (The Songs of Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee) LP

Release Date: April 22, 2022 - Nonesuch Records. 

2023 Grammy Winner for Best Traditional Blues Album

Nearly sixty years after they first played together, Ry Cooder and Taj Mahal, longtime friends and collaborators, reunite with an album of music from two Piedmont blues masters who have inspired them all their lives: GET ON BOARD: THE SONGS OF SONNY TERRY & BROWNIE MCGHEE.With Taj Mahal on vocals, harmonica, guitar, and piano and Cooder on vocals, guitar, mandolin, and banjo—joined by Joachim Cooder on drums and bass—the duo recorded eleven songs drawn from recordings and live performances by Terry and McGhee, who they both first heard as teenagers in California.

Track Listing

Side A

1. My Baby Done Changed the Lock on the Door
2. The Midnight Special
3. Hooray Hooray
4. Deep Sea Diver
5. Pick a Bale of Cotton
6. Drinkin' Wine Spo-Dee-O-Dee

Side B

1. What a Beautiful City
2. Pawn Shop Blues
3. Cornbread, Peas, Black Molasses
4. Packing Up Getting Ready to Go
5. I Shall Not Be Moved