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“Raucous, gritty, good-time
blues….Taylor belts out blues in a gravel voice with ferocious intensity.
Foot-stomping music that’s rough, raw and wonderfully upbeat.”
-- PEOPLE
“Chicago’s best blues singer …she has fire in her lungs.”
-- CHICAGO SUN-TIMES |
“This seemingly ageless wonder pours her heart out with fire and emotion.
Her singing is full of raw growls and grunts, her voice often building in
intensity until it explodes.”
-- LA TIMES
“One of the greatest female singers in R&B history.”
-- AUSTIN CHRONICLE
“Searing power and a steely emotional tautness …she radiates a warmth that
borders on the spiritual; few performers in any genre are as capable as she
is of generating genuine intimacy out of fervid house-rocking moments….a
living treasure.”
-- CHICAGO READER
“Koko Taylor will kick your butt up and down the room…raw, rompin’, stompin’,
barn-burnin’ blues. Contemporary blues just don’t get any better than this.”
-- BLUES ACCESS
“Mother Nature’s got nothing on blues legend Koko Taylor.”
-- SAN FRANCISCO EXAMINER-CHRONICLE
“Raucous, raunchy, good humored Chicago-styled blues…she unleashed like a
hurricane. She attacks her
material like a pitbull, ripping through the lyrics with a vengeance.”
-- JAZZ TIMES
“Her punchy, hard-driving blues can still send El Nino-sized shivers through
the atmosphere …. There may be no living artist who more palpably embodies
the jolting, live-wire feel of Chicago blues than Koko Taylor….she is indeed
a force of nature, putting her bluesy, blistering vocal signature on
everything she touches.”
-- CHICAGO TRIBUNE
“Koko Taylor is the blues, a sweaty, growling goddess of down-and-dirty.
Sheer, unstoppable shouting power, full steam ahead and damn the torpedoes.
Rocking, good-time blues…booming, earthy grit.”
-- BOSTON GLOBE
“When Koko Taylor cuts loose, she rattles the walls.”
-- SAN FRANCISCO BAY GUARDIAN“
A howl, a growl and a full-throated fury that forms deep in her abdomen and
reaches a roar by the time it hits her mouth.”
-- DETROIT FREE PRESS |
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