| Happy Just to Be Like I Am | |
| Type: | studio |
| Artist: | Taj Mahal |
| Cover: | Happy_Just_to_Be_Like_I_Am.jpg |
| Released: | 1971 |
| Genre: | Blues |
| Length: | 42:36 |
| Label: | Columbia |
| Producer: | Taj Mahal, David Rubinson |
| Prev Title: | The Real Thing |
| Prev Year: | 1971 |
| Next Title: | Recycling The Blues & Other Related Stuff |
| Next Year: | 1972 |
Happy Just to Be Like I Am is the fourth studio album by American blues artist Taj Mahal.
Christgau's Record Guide said in their review: "this relaxed, witty survey of musical Afro-America is strongest when its compositions verge on interpretations". Disc and Music Echo called it a "fine album, it's funky and it's gutsy, and there's splended brass on it". Rolling Stone Magazine said it is a "loose riotous blues 'n roots album", and that Taj Mahal is "nearly alone carrying the torch of the country music blues for other young black musicians to hear".[1]
Eric Zoeckler wrote in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch that it is the "unconventional mixture of instruments, Taj's six-holed fife, a section of four tubas, gung-ko-gwees, flugelhorns and steel bodied guitars, that makes this recording the delight that it is".[2]
All tracks composed by Taj Mahal; except where indicated