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Deluxe Edition (CD)

By: Koko Taylor (Artist)

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Koko Taylor Artist Snapshot:

Koko Taylor came in on the tail end of Chess Records' heyday, but she managed to score the legendary blues label one of its last big hits with her 1966 version of the Willie Dixon-penned "Wang Dang Doodle." Taylor's raw, gritty, soulful vocal style was tailor-made for electrified urban blues, and even after departing Chess for Alligator in the '70s she maintained a large audience. Taylor continued recording and performing extensively into the 21st century, her 2000 release ROYAL BLUE receiving a Grammy Nomination for best blues album.

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DISC 1 for Deluxe Edition (CD) Album By Koko Taylor (Artist)
1   I'm A Woman
2   Beer Bottle Boogie
3   Born Under A Bad Sign - (with Buddy Guy)
4   Mother Nature - (with Carey Bell)
5   Hey Bartender - (with Pinetop Perkins)
6   I'd Rather Go Blind
7   Man Size Job - (previously unreleased)
8   Let The Good Times Roll - (live)
9   Voodoo Woman - (with Mighty Joe Young)
10   Wang Dang Doodle
11   Stop Watching Your Enemies
12   Sure Had A Wonderful Time Last Night
13   Come To Mama
14   Time Will Tell
15   Blues Hotel - (with B.B. King)
 

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Review

Living Blues (5-6/02, pp.63-4) - "...Serves as handy primers that surveys the artist's recorded output for the label..."

Title Note

Personnel includes: Koko Taylor (vocals); B.B. King, Buddy Guy (vocals, guitar); Mighty Joe Young (guitar); Carey Bell (harmonica); Willie Henderson, Henri Ford, Mark Colby (saxophone); Larry Bowen (trumpet); Steve Berry (trombone); Pinetop Perkins (piano); "Professor" Eddie Lusk (organ); Kenny Hampton (bass); Brady Williams, Vince Chappelle (drums).

Producers include: Koko Taylor, Joe Young, Bruce Iglauer, Richard McLeese, Criss Johnson.

Compilation producers: Bob DePugh, Bruce Iglauer, David Forte.

Engineers include: Stu Black, Freedie Breitberg, Justin Niebank.

Recorded between 1975 and 1999. Includes liner notes by Bruce Iglauer.

All tracks have been digitally remastered.

Neatly boiling down Koko Taylor's quarter-century with the blues-specialist label Alligator Records into one unbeatable compilation, DELUXE EDITION is a perfect introduction to Taylor's immense charms. Kicking off with "I'm a Woman," a no-nonsense response to Muddy Waters's "I'm a Man," the 15-track compilation skims the cream from nine already good-to-great albums and adds one excellent new track, the sassy in-praise-of-younger-men testimonial "Man Size Job." The selection skews heavily to duets and other collaborations, such as a rollicking version of the Willie Dixon standard "Hey Bartender" with Pinetop Perkins contributing his familiar barrelhouse piano licks, and a soulful duet with B.B. King on "Blues Hotel." Although Taylor remains better known for her '60s sides on Chess Records (the version of "Wang Dang Doodle" here is no match for her '65 original, one of the great blues records of that decade), DELUXE EDITION is the best single-disc introduction to her music.

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