Blues & Beyond #154: Koko Taylor "Queen Of The Blues"

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Blues & Beyond #154: Koko Taylor "Queen Of The Blues"

Series: Blues & Beyond
From: WXPN
Length: 00:59:04

Music of the late Koko Taylor, "Queen Of The Blues" who died on June 2, 2009. Read the full description.

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Piece Description

In this hour of The Blues & Beyond, a remembrance of the late great Queen Of The Blues Koko Taylor. Koko died this past June 3rd at age 80. She was clearly the most important female blues singer on the planet,and to many fans, just the finest living blues singer period. Her passing may well mark the end of an era that we could call the "post post-war" blues period, coming afer years when the blues was in eclipse, and coinciding with the rise of the label she was with for over 30 years, Alligator Records. We'll hear her classic hit for Chess Records, "Wang Dang Doodle," which was the last great blues hit for that famed label, and her very first record, that she didn't even know was being recorded at the time -- plus a duet with B. B. King.

Also on this show, new jazz from the Dizzie Gillespie All-Star Big band, and a classic from the band's namesake, and Coltrane reinterpreted by tenor sax player Eric Alexander.

promos included: promo-koko-taylor for this program; promo-bbking for the next program, which will feature the new album "Live At The BBC" by B. B. King.

Broadcast History

WXPN-FM Philadelphia 6-14-2009 and 6-15-2009

Transcript

Art Hodes "Ja Da"
Delmark: Up In Volly's Room
© 1992 Delmark Records
DE 217

Koko Taylor "Wang Dang Doodle"
MCA: What It Takes/The Chess Years
© 1991 MCA Records
CHD-9328

Koko Taylor "I'm A Woman"
Alligator: The Earthshaker
© 1978 Alligator Records
ALCD 4711

B. B. King "Something You Got"
MCA: Blues Summit
© 1993 MCA Records, Inc.
MCAD-10710

E...
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Timing and Cues

00:00 Billboard: Show opens, opening theme, "This is The Blues & Beyond. I'm Jonny Meister."

00:59 Billboard ends.. "... in this hour of The Blues & Beyond."

01:00 "option" song: "Starting out, this is..."

05:59 "option" song fades

06:00 show re-intro: "This is The Blues & Beyond. I'm Jonny Meister....."

30:56 end of part 1:

"... after the break, here on The Blues & Beyond."

59-second bed plays

31:55 bed fades

31:56 part 2: show re-intro: "This is The Blues & Beyond. I'm Jonny Meister."

58:41 voice out on part 2 "... thanks for listening to this hour of The Blues & Beyond."

58:59 theme fades end of part 2

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http://www.xpn.org/beyond

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