KOKO TAYLOR & LITTLE WALTER (1967) ~

 

KOKO TAYLOR ~

 

MASTERS ~

BAD AVENUE ~

OLD SCHOOL ~

KOKO TAYLOR

The daughter of a sharecropper born (1928) Cora Walton in Shelby county Tennessee, Koko Taylor may be one of the very last of the hard blues singers/interpreters, and here we have her singing Lefty Dizz's "Bad Avenue" in true Muddy Waters style.

When people say they like their blues the dirtier the better — well, here you go.
Keep in mind the singer's almost 80 years old.

After recording with Charley and Chess in her early years, Taylor moved exclusively into
the good hands at Alligator Records until her unfortunate passing in 2009.