Earthshaker

Koko Taylor | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 25, 1990)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Alligator Records
• ASIN: B0000009XG
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #140,122 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #18 in Music > Indie Music > Blues > Vocal Blues

Editorial Reviews

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Genre: Blues Music
Media Format: Compact Disk
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Release Date: 20-MAR-1989

Customer Reviews

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Queen of the blues clubs!, November 21, 1999

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Ricardo Neves Gonzalez (Petrópolis-R.J. [e-mail]) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Earthshaker (Audio CD)

Koko Taylor's "Earthshaker" is an essential blues album!She puts all of your nasal vocal in the musics here.Great jobs,specially with this band, full of bluesmasters! If you don't know who's Koko Taylor,this work will shows you why she's called the "Blues Diva"! Excellent job!

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars 4 1/2 stars. Great, straight-ahead blues and R&B, June 4, 2005

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Docendo Discimus (Vita scholae) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Earthshaker (Audio CD)

There is barely a single weak moment on Koko Taylor's 1978 LP.

Sure, her remakes of "I'm A Man" (as "I'm A Woman") and "Wang Dang Doodle" are less than innovative, but everything else is just plain great. And Taylor is backed by an excellent combo which includes guitarists Johnny Moore and Sammy Lawhorn, saxist Abb Locke, and the legendary Joe "Pinetop" Perkins on the piano.

Very few people can cover Howlin' Wolf and get away with it, but Koko Taylor does as good as anybody on a really solid "Spoonful", and her swaggering renditions of Mel London's "Cut You Loose" and the saucy Irma Thomas-single "You Can Have My Husband" are just magnificent.

"Let The Good Times Roll" and "Hey Bartender" still pop up on her set list today, and the self-penned slow blues "Please Don't Dog Me" is one of Taylor's best original songs.

You really can't go wrong with any of Taylor's excellent recordings for Alligator records, but this one is as good as any of them, a must-have for fans, and casual listeners should find a lot to love as well. "The Earthshaker" is one great, well-arranged blues record with plenty of highlights and virtually no let-downs.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars THIS IS THE BLUES, April 30, 2007

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Don Belton (Central Pennsylvania) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Earthshaker (Audio CD)

Koko Taylor is a living legend! The blues has been so commercialized and copied that we often do not recognize it in its essential forms. Koko Taylor is an earth-shaking embodiment of the blues tradition. She is the real deal. Straight up without a chaser. Get this album wherever you can find it and listen to it over and over. Koko Taylor will heal your soul and give you a spiritual education in living in the world. When I listen to her version of "Let the Good Times Roll" I don't want to hear anybody else sing it again. You will travel to some pretty deep and scary places listening to her sing "Walking the Backstreet" but you will emerge emboldened to live and love life to the fullest!