Formed to be Taj Mahal's backing band

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and used on 2 of his '90's recordings, the Phantom Blues Band is one crack outfit. It starts with the organ/voice of Mike Finnigan * but every player is excellent. Their playing is in-the-pocket and unpretentious. As they all have busy individual careers, they've only recorded 3 times in 6 years **; every one is a 4-star affair: http://www.allmusic.com/artist/phantom-b...graphy/all Their stuff is pricey: http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_c_0...Caps%2C337 Ron Weinstock's blog reviewed their middle album: http://inabluemood.blogspot.com/2012/01/...rints.html Their Site (includes links to the individual musicians + other good stuff): http://www.phantombluesband.com/

Some tunes (I'm gonna go long): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSdyhZDfFuk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXlVBaOBqNs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYDtJLAreuw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQcJ0xiXEXI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CHdJrnVdbU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j40T7Rkeuu8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXOq0PnF-s8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3x-SH8fqmA
CAUTION: This has some stinging political cartoons: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPUxXR809cc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2EKRHjTiEI << Backing Taj Mahal and Jon Cleary

* Mr. Finnigan was covered here: http://www.music-discussion.com/showthre...owns/page2 << Item #8
** A wild card is a job backing Barbara Blue: http://www.amazon.com/Popular-Demand-Bar...rbara+blue Some tunes together--nice mesh: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OtnxMfsIxFU and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-DgOwi1SAA and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11b3Cb-cFFg << YT has others