Taj Mahal & The Phantom Blues Band
Ultimate Rhythm and Blues Cruise
M/S Regal Empress
Grand Lounge
Caribbean Sea, en route from Tampa, Fla., to Grand Cayman
Sunday, Jan. 18, 1998
11:30 pm

01. Queen Bee 5:51
02. banter 2:14
03. Señor Blues 7:00
04. banter 1:55
05. You Rascal You 6:55
06. banter 2:11
07. Pillow Talk 7:37
08. band intro :57
09. Coconut Man 9:26
10. banter 4:35
11. Blues Ain't Nothin' 7:16
12. getting Walker's Cay together 3:45
13. Sailin' Into Walker's Cay 8:18
14. song about Clifton Chenier 5:44

Total: 73:51

Source: soundboard > ? > DAT (48 kHz)

Transfer: DAT > Sony PCM-R500 > Metric Halo MIO-2882 > Macintosh MacBook Pro > MIO Console 5.6 > wav > MacBook Air M1 > iZotope RX 11 Advanced (normalized 4.4 db plus another 2.9 db in the right channel) > wav > xACT 2.59b > flac (16/48)

Notes
From BigDVM's collection. Transferred by Richard Russell, July 28, 2026

DAT was labeled Jan. 19, however Taj was not scheduled to play that day. He WAS scheduled the previous evening at 11:30 p.m., so presumably this started after midnight on the 19th. On the same tape is Bernard Allison's set, correctly dated 1/18. Bernard performed at 9 p.m. on the 18th, and Taj's set would've started about an hour after Bernard finished (though on a different stage).

Taj Mahal - vocals, guitar, harp
Darrell Leonard - trumpet, arranger
Joe Sublett - sax
Mick Weaver - keyboards
Tony Braunagel - drums
Larry Fulcher - bass
Denny Freeman - guitar
Carey Slim Williams - vocals