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Intro by: Gail Nobles
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  If You Got A Heartache is the fifth track on Koko Taylor's 1981 blues album entitled From The Heart of a Woman. She let you know that when you've got a headache, a headache powder will ease the pain, but when you've got a heartache, there ain't nothing you can do.

Koko Taylor was a singer whose style encompassed Chicago blues, electric blues, rhythm and blues and soul blues. Sometimes called "The Queen of the Blues", she was known for her rough, powerful vocals. Over the course of her career, she was nominated for 11 Grammy Awards, winning 1985's Best Traditional Blues Album for her appearance on Blues Explosion.

Taylor became better known by touring in the United States in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and she became accessible to a wider record-buying public when she signed a recording contract with Alligator Records in 1975. She recorded nine albums for Alligator, eight of which were nominated for Grammy awards, and came to dominate ranks of female blues singers, winning twenty-nine W. C. Handy/Blues Music Awards.

 Call Taylor live to get 80 years old to learn more about her go to alligator.com/artist/Koko-Taylor/

 I'm Gail Nobles tune in again next time for more from Podcast and Blues.

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Episode Transcript

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Today's topic. Coco Taylor When You'veGot a head Ache, If you got
a Heartache is the fifth track onCoco Taylor's nineteen eighty one blues album entitled

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From the Heart of a Woman.She lets you know that when you've got
a headache a headache, powder willease the pain, but when you've got
a heartache, there ain't nothing youcan do. Coco Taylor was a singer
whose style encompassed Chicago blues, electricblues, rhythm and blues, and soul

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blues. Sometimes called the Queen ofthe Blues, she was known for her
rough powerful vote. Over the courseof her career, she was nominated for
two Grammy Awards, winning nineteen eightyfive's Best Traditional Blues Album for her appearance

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on Blues Explosion. Taylor became betterknown by touring in the US in the
late nineteen sixties and early nineteen seventies, and she became accessible to a wider
record buying public when she signed arecording contract with Alligator Records in nineteen seventy

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five. She recorded nine albums forAlligator, eight of which were nominated for
Grammy Awards, and came to dominateranks of female blues singers, winning twenty
nine WC Handy Blues Music Awards.Coco Taylor lived to get eighty years old.

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