In 1964 the Rising Sons were born. A group of young Californians who claimed even more of the electric blues of the pioneers than the Rolling Stones. They were born in the grub for real, Jesse Ed Davis (of Kiowa origin), Ry Cooder (son of an Italian from LA) and Taj Mahal, born Henry St. Claire Fredericks Jr. in Harlem. Finding Mahal and Cooder in the same room, enthusiastically taking up the repertoire of friends Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee, is in this a great loop that comes full circle, almost six decades apart. As far as their adventures have taken them, we understand that together, youngsters or veterans, it is the same enthusiasts who abandon themselves to the trance of these founding songs, The Midnight Special as much as Drinkin Wine Spo-Dee-O-Dee, Taj on piano or harmonica, Ry on guitars, with son Joachim as a complement to bass drums. You have to hear them laugh after the solos: life is good, because it allows that.
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