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Giant Step/De Ole Folks at Home | 
| Artist: Taj Mahal
Label: Columbia
Category: Music
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Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 33944
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.4 x 4.9 x 0.4
EAN: 5099749169227
ASIN: B0000247RX
Release Date: July 14, 2003
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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| Tracks:
| • | Giant Step | | • | Ain't Gwine Whistle Dixie No More | | • | Take A Giant Step | | • | Give Your Woman What She Wants | | • | Good Morning Little Schoolgirl | | • | You're Gonna Need Somebody On Your Bond | | • | Six Days On The Road | | • | Farther On Down The Road (You Will Accompany Me) | | • | Keep Your Hands Off Her | | • | Bacon Fat | | • | De Ole Folks At Home | | • | Linin' Track | | • | Country Blues No 1 | | • | Wild Ox Moan | | • | Light Rain Blues | | • | Little Soulful Tune | | • | Candy Man | | • | Cluck Old Hen | | • | Colored Aristocracy | | • | Blind Boy Rag | | • | Stagger Lee | | • | Cajun Tune | | • | Fishin' Blues | | • | Annie's Lover |
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| Editorial Reviews:
From Amazon.com
One of the more woefully underappreciated blues artists of the last three decades, Taj Mahal has consistently made great records that combine his extensive knowledge of roots music with a refreshingly non-elitist sensibility. Giant Step/De Ole Folks At Home from 1969 was Taj's commercial high point, and it's easy to understand why. The first half of the album (originally released as a two-record set) features Taj and band blending rock, pop and blues on songs like "Take a Giant Step," "Give Your Woman What She Wants" and "Good Morning Little Schoolgirl." The second half is more laid-back and down-home, with Taj essaying solo renditions of "Fishing Blues," "Stagger Lee" and "Light Rain Blues" on banjo, harmonica and acoustic guitar. The most effortlessly enjoyable record of an effortlessly enjoyable career. --Dan Epstein
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| Customer Reviews:
 LIVING LEGEND January 14, 2005
D. Bibb (Birmingham,UK)
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
This cd is one of Mahal's better works.It contains his own works as well as blues standards,my favourites being Stagger Lee and Candy Man.The line up is the same as the debut album which I also recomend,Taj Mahal.His later work I found hit and miss.
So go ahead and buy
Contrast! May 20, 2010
Mr. J. S. Moseley (London)
Ignore the review describing, 'De Ole Folks At Home' as "awful", it's great and shows that Taj Mahal is a champion of the history of blues music, not just out to make a quick buck! The contrast between the songs on 'Giant Step' and 'De Ole Folks At Home' works really well! The first is electric city blues and the second is country/delta blues, of the sort I'd love to hear... well anywhere really!!!
 Hit and Miss March 27, 2010
Alan (England)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
A Recording very much of two halfs. Giant Step is with a band. There is a mixture of covers and Taj Mahal originals and is quite good with a profesional sound.
Giant Step is truly awful. It is a collection of traditional country blues and folk songs which would be OK but it sounds amateur and at times un-rehersed. I am all for some gritty realism but some of the songs are a joke - check out 'A little soulful tune' - and I am suprised the record company allowed their release. Most of it the songs sound the same and are quite boring.
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