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The Michigan Daily
KoKo
By arwulf arwuif
THE BLUES BEGAT Chicago, and
Chicago begat the Blues. Oc-
casionally, the Blues travels as a road
band, and we, here in our sheltered
university existances, are given an
opportunity to bask inLive Blues right
out of Chicago, the real stuff.
KoKo Taylor was wearing a silky
red outfit, her curly wig looking good
and her voice sounding as strong as it
ever has. She first won me over at the
1972 Ann Arbor Blues and Jazz
Iestival, which took place on Otis
Mpann Memorial Field. Today it's got
an asphalt strip across it, Otis Spann
1Memorial bike path. Blues and Jazz
were banished from the site. Every
time I drive by it, I can see the ram-
abackle stage, and almost hear
Fgowlin' Wolf, Muddy Waters, Sun Ra,
Charles Mingus and KoKo Taylor.
IoKo is a roof-raiser, and when she
performed out-of-doors under Ann
Arbor's sky, she raised that roof too.
I was barely 15 at the time, and it
surely changed my life. That's why
KoKo needs to travel and sing the
Iues wherever she can. If the kids
don't hear it, we're sunk. They'll think
Duran Duran is the basis and the
limit, and a great ignorance will
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Wednesday, November 13, 1985
Taylor: Blues Queen
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descend upon the land.
KoKo's got a young bunch of fellows
touring with her, and during a break I
spoke with a guitarist. He sat next me
at the bar, nursing a Coke and cat-
ching his breath. I asked where they
were playing next and he said Mem-
phis. Further inquiries disclosed wide
possibilities for KoKo's travels;
Europe, said the man, is a great place
to work. A very appreciative audience
for the Blues in Europe. The only
place they hadn't been hitting was
Japan and the Far East. I wished him
luck and he went onstage to grind out
more Woogie.
KoKo's band is called her Blues
Machine, and this is a perfect name
for them. The drummer is a hydraulic
lift, full of life and surprises. They
cook a murderous number without
KoKo, cutting everyone loose. We flail
and strut. KoKo sings "Hey Barten-
der," a bar anthem which has been
done to death on the pub circuit here
in town. Nearly every jump band
plays it upon mounting the stage at
Flood's. KoKo's treatment was so
real, it sounded new again, with
actual meaning. Funny what happens
when you catch the real thing.
KoKo sang a slow blues ballad, and
it took my breath away. I was perched
somewhere to the right of the stage,
my beer bottle and clipboard in front
of me, checking her out and loving it.
The crowd, though, was chattering
and yelling at each other, elbowing for
drinks at the bar counter, and plotting
meaty pickups. Television hung from
the walls and ceilings of Rick's.
I'm telling you, seeing Johnny Car-
son up on the ceiling, with one hand in
his pocket, telling a joke which none of
us could hear, seeing this clever
creature on a television screen moun-
ted so that it shone above KoKo's
head, not fifteen feet away, while she
was singing us some blues, that was
too much for me.
But even Carson couldn't ruin KoKo
Taylor's performance, and it was a
delight seeing her again. I love her! I
bought a copy of her latest album
from her, with autograph included.
She seemed tired and a little distant,
as if the travel was wearing just a bit
on her. This is a familiar problem,
road fatigue, and with all the
technical advances which have grown
up through the fabric of the music, I
daresay they'll never solve this one.
Not so long as a musician has to travel
and play for upper middle class kids
out on their first or second bout of
drinking.
KoKo's latest album, Queen of the
Blues, (Alligator 4740), is a good in-
dication of how her organization
sounds, and if you'd like to know what
they were like this weekend, get a
copy, crank it up very loud, open a
beer and get someone to dance up a
sweat with you. This is tough stuff,
and KoKo is one tough gal.
Her "Beer Bottle Boogie," "Come
to Mama," and the ominous "I Can
Love You Like A Woman (Or I Can
Fight You Like A Man)" are all solid
pieces of floor-stompin joy, right off
the top of Chicago's Blues scene. The
album also features special guests
James Cotton, Lonnie Brooks, Son
Seals and Albert Collins, making the
disc an event in itself.
The encouraging part of the evening
was the realization that the young
folks were dancing to real live
Chicago Blues, and there's nothing in
the world so powerful. They'll have to
think twice the next time someone
says "boogie," and the music will go
with them wherever they run. It's
forever.
Daily Photo by SCOTT ZOLTON
KoKo Taylor, the Queen of the Blues, played for fans - young and old -
at Rick's Saturday night. In an era where Duran Duran is the end-all of
modern music; it is good to see that a real legend still rocks.
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