I was about to board a ferry boat for a family vacation when my cell phone rang. I wasn’t expecting a call, but I answered.

“Hey man, this is Taj!”

Yes, it was the one and only legendary Taj Mahal, winner of multiple Grammy awards, member of the Blues Hall of Fame, and the man who introduced Duane Allman to a song that would become the Allman Brothers’s signature song, “Statesboro Blues” (the song on which Duane learned to play slide guitar.)

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