Taj Mahal

Taj Mahal has spent decades pulling blues apart and putting it back together with pieces of Caribbean, African, and American roots music woven in. His guitar and banjo work, that rough warm voice, and his refusal to stay inside one style have made him one of the genre's most restless and rewarding figures. Albums like "Giant Step" and his work with the Phantom Blues Band show a musician always digging for something new inside old forms.

He has Colorado dates coming up at Strings Music Pavilion, Chautauqua Auditorium, and Telluride Town Park, three rooms that suit an artist who has always played best when he can stretch out.