Happy Just to Be Like I Am is the fourth studio album by American blues artist Taj Mahal.

Reception

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". 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".

Track listing

All tracks composed by Taj Mahal; except where indicated

Personnel