Koko Taylor and Willie Dixon get it done with "Insane Asylum".
From the Tribune: Chicago blues legend Koko Taylor dies at 80
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"The Chicago musical icon died Wednesday at age 80 of complications from gastrointestinal surgery less than four weeks after her last performance, at the Blues Music Awards in Memphis, Tenn. There she collected her record 29th Blues Music Award, capping an era in which she became the most revered female blues vocalist of her time with signature hits "Wang Dang Doodle," "I'm a Woman" and "Hey Bartender."
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Chicago is the city it is in no small part because Koko Taylor, Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf and the rest hauled the best of the South up here and planted it at 49th and Cottage.
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Damn straight yer closing lines.
And Koko was a hosette . . .
Even out here on the Left Coast.
She had 80 good one's, round this rock.
Bless her for what she left behind.
ChiTown is better for it.
Guess I don't need to tell ya bout Butterfield, and where HE got schooled . . . Little Walter, Sonny Boy, and a few others along with the one's you mention, schooled us all . . .
And as I misstated above, ChiTown AND ALL OF US, are better for Koko and what she left us.
Namaste, Koko . . . jams are all night long where yer headed, just like down here . . .
I had the enourmous pleasure of interviewing KoKo Taylor a couple of years ago. She was a Queen.
A dozen years or more ago, I was in Chicago for a conference. A bunch of us were out for a night of the blues. It was about midnight when we hit Buddy Guy's place on MLK Blvd. Buddy was not playing, but there was a hot band, as there always was, and the folks were grooving. We'd been there about half-an-hour, when the door opened, and Koko Taylor was suddenly on the stage, ripping it: "I Think I'm Gonna Fuck Up Somebody's Life!" She sang for about 45 mins. It/she was amazing...
damn.
bye Koko.
i rode with her.
i got no complaints.
She has a new Sweet Home.
Dat's good. Dey can use a little of
Chicago's best.
I fully expect her to be omnipresent at next week's blues fest.
But caution: She's the first of many aging pillars of the wave to go. Those who survived despite "the life" by living their own life.
She's belting one out on the new arrival stage. It's a good day.
A good thread and some good posts.
And a HELL of a blueswoman. :o)
So long, Babe.
MInstrel, I bow to yer homage.
Rehc . . . in all genre's we is losin a HUGE ton of talent.
And have, for the past ten years or more.
I can't even begin to list my 'grassers, old country, and americana artists that have gone to the great jam in the sky.
And yer right, we got a whole crop of artists in their 70's and 80's we grew up with in our youth's.
At age 56, there's a whole slew of folks that were heroes in our early lives that are close to passing.
Rejoice them all, praise them, and remember them when they pass . . . . they were god's in their times.
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