Description
Koko Taylor – The Earthshaker / Alligator Records Audio CD / ALCD 4711
UPC 014551471127
The Earthshaker is a blues album by Koko Taylor, released in 1978 by Alligator Records. The album has since been released on CD by Alligator.
Reviewing in Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies (1981), Robert Christgau wrote: "Considering its size, Taylor's voice has never been what you'd call rich—she flubs the pitch quite a bit, and on the slow ones she's often sounded flat emotionally as well. But it retains amazing presence—by now it's deepened and roughened so much that her late work for Chess sounds girlish by comparison. Two or three of the slow ones here really drag, always a crippling flaw in Chicago blues, but the uptempo stuff is exemplary—the songs are fun as songs, and the guitar on her latest remake of 'Wang Dang Doodle' is ace."
| Label: | Alligator Records – ALCD 4711 |
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| Format: |
CD, Album
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| Country: | US |
| Released: |
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| Genre: | Blues |
| Style: | Chicago Blues |
Tracklist:
| 1 |
Let The Good Times Roll |
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3:00 |
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| 2 | Spoonful |
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3:00 |
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| 3 | Walking The Back Streets |
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6:45 |
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| 4 | Cut You Loose |
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3:24 |
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| 5 | Hey Bartender |
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2:51 |
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| 6 | I'm A Woman |
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4:36 |
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| 7 | You Can Have My Husband |
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2:45 |
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| 8 | Please Don't Dog Me |
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5:16 |
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| 9 | Wang Dang Doodle |
| 4:51 |
- Bass – Cornelius "Mule" Boyson
- Design [Album] – Ross & Harvey Graphics
- Drums – Vince Chappelle
- Engineer – Freddie Breitberg
- Engineer [Assisted By] – Eddie B. Flick
- Guitar – Johnny B. Moore, Sammy Lawhorn
- Harmonica – Mervyn "Harmonica" Hinds
- Keyboards – Pinetop Perkins
- Photography By [Cover Photo] – Michael Vollan
- Photography By [Liner Photo] – Mark PoKempner
- Producer – Bruce Iglauer, Koko Taylor, Richard McLeese
- Saxophone – Abb Locke
- Vocals – Koko Taylor
