Rest in Peace Koko Taylor
Posted by Dan | | Posted On Jun 3, 2009 at 6:55 PM
Cover of Queen of the Blues
The blues has lost a real treasure. I'm now going to listen to he last album "Old School" for the rest of the night.
Blues icon Koko Taylor dies. Koko Taylor, the Grammy Award-winning "Queen of the Blues," died Wednesday afternoon at Northwestern Memorial Hospital of complications from surgery, according to Marc Lipkin of Alligator Records. She was 80. Taylor, born Coral Walton on a sharecropper's farm outside Memphis, came to Chicago in 1952 and worked as a house cleaner. She began to sit in with blues bands and in the early 1960s signed a contract with Chess Records after being approached by Willie Dixon....
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