{"id":402,"date":"2009-06-03T20:16:50","date_gmt":"2009-06-04T00:16:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.streamingmeemee.com\/index.php\/2009\/06\/03\/koko-queen-of-the-blues-taylor-dies\/"},"modified":"2009-12-25T14:38:56","modified_gmt":"2009-12-25T18:38:56","slug":"koko-queen-of-the-blues-taylor-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.streamingmeemee.com\/index.php\/2009\/06\/03\/koko-queen-of-the-blues-taylor-dies\/","title":{"rendered":"Koko ‘Queen of the Blues’ Taylor dies"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>No snappy headline this time…<\/p>\n

I’ve got a list…  a list of legends that I want to see perform before they pass from this reality.  I’ve recently taken inventor of the electric guitar and modern recording techniques Les Paul<\/a> — it was in a word, amazing.  I think I’m still grinning from that show.<\/p>\n

In the summer of 2007 I saw Koko Taylor<\/a> perform at the Lowell Summer Music Series<\/a>.  Even at the ripe old age of 78 she could still belt out a tune.  Her band was tight and the lead guitar even managed to take the term ‘lick’ literally as he managed to ‘play’ his axe with his tongue<\/a>!<\/p>\n

I don’t think there is any doubt that Koko qualifies as a legend; her trademark song Wang Dang Doodle<\/i> (written by Willie Dixion — yet another legend) has been covered by a diverse array of artists from Ted Nugent to Grateful Dead and PJ Harvey.<\/p>\n

Her gravelly voice and powerful style were unmistakeable.  I’m very glad to have seen her before she shuffled off her mortal coil.<\/p>\n

Time to update the list…<\/p>\n

You can see my photos from this show<\/a> on Flickr.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

No snappy headline this time… I’ve got a list…  a list of legends that I want to see perform before they pass from this reality.  I’ve recently taken inventor of the electric guitar and modern recording techniques Les Paul — it was in a word, amazing.  I think I’m still grinning from that show. In … Continue reading Koko ‘Queen of the Blues’ Taylor dies<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dreamland-blues-radio","category-personal"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.streamingmeemee.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.streamingmeemee.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.streamingmeemee.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.streamingmeemee.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.streamingmeemee.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=402"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.streamingmeemee.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":423,"href":"https:\/\/www.streamingmeemee.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402\/revisions\/423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.streamingmeemee.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.streamingmeemee.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.streamingmeemee.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}