Koko Taylor What It Takes

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Koko Taylor: What It Takes

(1997/MCA) 17 tracks. 1964-72.

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Interpret: Koko Taylor
Titre de l'album: What It Takes
Label MCA
Genre Blues
Année de publication 1997
Artikelart CD
EAN: 4000127788702
Poids en kg: 0.1

Taylor, Koko - What It Takes CD 1
01	Got What It Takes	Koko Taylor
02	Don't Mess With The Messer	Koko Taylor
03	Whatever I Am, You Made Me	Koko Taylor
04	I'm A Little Mixed Up	Koko Taylor
05	Wang Dang Doodle	Koko Taylor
06	(I Got) All You Need	Koko Taylor
07	Love Me	Koko Taylor
08	What Came First The Egg Or The Hen	Koko Taylor
09	Insane Asylum	Koko Taylor
10	Fire	Koko Taylor
11	I Don't Care Who Knows	Koko Taylor
12	Twenty Nine Ways To My Baby's Door	Koko Taylor
13	Blue Prelude	Koko Taylor
14	I Need More And More	Koko Taylor
15	Um Huh My Baby	Koko Taylor
16	Bills, Bills & More Bills	Koko Taylor
17	I Got What It Takes	Koko Taylor

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Koko Taylor

Chicago blues queen Koko Taylor rode the R&B charts somewhat unexpectedly in 1966 with her gritty, uncompromising treatment of Willie Dixon's minor-key party anthem Wang Dang Doodle (it's on Box Three, Disc 2). But lightning didn't strike twice for the Bartlett, Tennessee native at Checker Records despite producer Dixon's best efforts, Koko belting Good Advice, Egg Or The Hen, the rousing Fire, and several more singles without commensurate response. In 1972, Chess released ‘Basic Soul,' Taylor's second LP, and then she found herself without a label.

Meanwhile, Alligator Records was flourishing as a local indie, having launched Hound Dog Taylor, Son Seals, and Fenton Robinson. Koko wanted to be there too, but convincing boss Bruce Iglauer wasn't easy. "I had to run him down like a hawk," said the late Taylor. "I said, ‘I'm gonna ask him one more time, and if he turns me down I ain't gonna ever ask him no more!'" Koko finally got her demo to Iglauer. "About three or four days later he called me. He told me, ‘I listened to your tape.' I said, ‘Oh? What did you think about it?' He said, ‘Well, actually, I liked them!'

"I was very hesitant, because up until that time I had worked only with player/singers," admits Iglauer.It turned out to be a musical marriage made in heaven. ‘I Got What It Takes,' Taylor's first Alligator LP in 1975, was nominated for a Grammy.‘The Earthshaker,' her '78 Alligator encore, found her backed by a particularly stellar edition of her Blues Machine: guitarists Sammy Lawhorn and Johnny B. Moore, bassist Cornelius Boyson, drummer Vince Chappelle, and guests Pinetop Perkins on piano and saxist Abb Locke. The set featured several numbers that became concert staples of hers for the next three decades, including I'm A Woman (her saucy retort to Bo Diddley's I'm A Man), Louis Jordan's romping Let The Good Times Roll, and the swinging Hey Bartender, introduced back in 1954 by L.A. jump blues pianist Floyd Dixon on Atlantic's short-lived Cat subsidiary and well suited to Koko's earthy, boisterous delivery.

"By the time we did ‘The Earthshaker,' I felt much more of a level of confidence with myself, and a level of confidence in my communication with Koko," says Iglauer, her longtime producer and manager. Reigning regally as Chicago's blues queen, Taylor made seven more albums for Alligator (the last one was 2007's ‘Old School'), racked up a trophy case full of Handy Awards and Grammy nominations, and overcame a serious bout with gastrointestinal bleeding that sidelined her for a lengthy spell in 2003. Koko returned to action and made a triumphant comeback, only to ultimately be fatally felled by the same malady on June 3, 2009.

"A few years back, they started calling me the Queen of the Blues," mused Koko. "I am one of the last people that you can name around today that's singing blues. We've got a lot of singers out there that got beautiful voices. They can sing better than me, some of ‘em. But they're not singing blues."

Bill Dahl
Chicago, Illinois

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