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Koko Taylor:
🎵 Wang Dang Doodle

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https://lanoire.bandcamp.com/track/wang-dang-doodle-koko-taylor

https://open.spotify.com/track/1cXc92MX9kFjMrrDsvdf9w

My pick for this week's #MusicWomenWednesday is a video from the 1967 American Folk and Blues Festival. This is Koko Taylor doing a live version of her great hit from the previous year, backed by a stellar group of musicians including Little Walter on harmonica, Hound Dog Taylor on guitar, Dillard Crume on bass and Odie Payne on drums.

Koko Taylor: Wang Dang Doodle (1967)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyUHkY0K8HE

This line-up even visited Finland, playing a show at Kulttuuritalo in Helsinki on October 12, 1967.

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#KokoTaylor (1928-2009)

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6J_0o18Shbw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_4tYmzdMPg&list=OLAK5uy_nRwnqqK7jTHw9lqa0KGJXJ2KQMdBCxQvQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29DSl-GnPlc&list=RD1-8fSl0DG5U&index=14

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Musical Interlude: The hot humid weather we're having here has put me in a blues mood...and now I'm remembering this impressive duet...

"Insane Asylum," performed by Willie Dixon & Koko Taylor.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fq3QySTQlmI

#MusicalInterlude #Blues #WillieDixon #KokoTaylor

Various Artists, The Best of Chess Blues, 1987 on Chess / MCA

Great 2xLP 80s compilation of the post-war blues that made Chess such a critical label, issued by MCA who acquired the rights to the Chess catalog in the mid-eighties.

• Muddy Waters– Rollin’ Stone
• Robert Nighthawk– Black Angel Blues (Sweet Black Angel)
• Eddie Boyd & The Chess Men– 24 Hours
• Willie Mabon– Seventh Son
• Lowell Fulson–Reconsider Baby
• Muddy Waters– (I’m Your) Hoochie Coochie Man
• Howlin’ Wolf– Smokestack Lightnin’
• Little Walter & His Night Cats– Juke
• J.B. Lenoir– Eisenhower Blues
• Jimmy Rogers– Walking By Myself
• Howlin’ Wolf– Back Door Man
• Elmore James– Madison Blues
• Sonny Boy Williamson– Your Funeral My Trial
• Otis Rush– So Many Roads, So Many Trains
• Buddy Guy– My Time After Awhile
• Sonny Boy Williamson– Bring It On Home
• John Lee Hooker– One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer
• Etta James– Baby What You Want Me To Do
• Little Milton– Stormy Monday
• Koko Taylor– Wang Dang Doodle

My copy—via Mel’s Record Shop in Amesbury MA—is a 1987 pressing by MCA Records’ plant in Gloversville, NY.

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I love the way Koko could take a word and just pierce through everything with that delivery.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFcbZBkzqDU

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Musical Interlude: Happened to listen to this lady today, one of the all-time greats. She had pipes like no other, and here she is declaring herself to the world....

"I'm a Woman," performed by Koko Taylor.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_fygyQiHoA

#MusicalInterlude #KokoTaylor #QueenOfTheBlues #BluesMusic

Musical Interlude: Here's something pretty harrowing and intense, and it's a great demonstration of the serious pipes on the lady singing here, the late Koko Taylor. Be careful if you have headphones on...she could blow out your eardrums.

"Insane Asylum," performed by Willie Dixon & Koko Taylor.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fq3QySTQlmI

#MusicalInterlude #Blues #WillieDixon #KokoTaylor #GirlHasPipes