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Royal Blue

~ Koko Taylor
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  • Audio CD (13 July 2000)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: Alligator
  • ASIN: B00004SYZN
  • Other Editions: MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
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Song Title Time Price
Listen  1. Save Your Breath 4:09£0.79
Listen  2. Hittin' On Me 3:32£0.79
Listen  3. Bring Me Some Water 5:21£0.79
Listen  4. But On The Other Hand 4:42£0.79
Listen  5. Don't Let Me Catch You With Your Drawers Down 4:12£0.79
Listen  6. Blues Hotel 4:04£0.79
Listen  7. Fuel To Burn 3:51£0.79
Listen  8. The Man Next Door 5:15£0.79
Listen  9. Old Woman 4:31£0.79
Listen10. Ernestine 5:03£0.79
Listen11. Keep Your Booty Out Of My Bed 4:38£0.79
Listen12. Keep Your Mouth Shut And Your Eyes Open 3:48£0.79

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For her first album in seven years, Koko Taylor returns with a flurry of gritty material and a roster of guest royalty befitting the Queen of the Blues. Kicking things off with the fiery "Save Your Breath", Taylor keeps the temperature high with swaggering originals like the stop-start "Don't Let Me Catch You (With Your Drawers Down)" and the gutbucket blues "Ernestine" (featuring Johnnie Johnson's supple piano playing). The most impressive self-penned number is "The Man Next Door", a duet with Keb' Mo' with a stripped-down arrangement featuring a reigned-in vocal turn by Taylor goosed along by Mo's twangy National Steel guitar and wailing harmonica.
Elsewhere, the Queen mixes it up with young hotshot KennyWayne Shepherd (a searing cover of Melissa Etheridge's "Bring Me Some Water") and meets up with regal counterpart B.B. King (the crackling "Blues Hotel"). Taylor also has fun leisurely tearing into Ray Charles's "But On The Other Hand" andmaintaining her bawdy image with the no-nonsense "Keep YourBooty Out Of My Bed".

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4.0 out of 5 stars 4 1/2 stars. A terrific comeback, 5 Jun 2005
By Docendo Discimus (Vita scholae) - See all my reviews
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2000's "Royal Blue" is Koko Taylor's first Alligator album in seven years, and while not everything is magnificent, excactly, there really isn't a bad song to be found.
The band is excellent, and Koko Taylor's rough voice has lost little or none of its power. And there are plenty of memorable songs, like the bump and grind of "Bring Me Some Water" and "Don't Let Me Catch You", and the self-penned acoustic "The Man Next Door" which features the gritty slide playing of Kevin Moore. Well, alright, Keb' Mo', then.

Fans will definitely want this one in their collection, and casual listeners should find a lot to like as well. "Royal Blue" is one of those albums that gets better with each subsequent listen.
Elmore James' piano player, the late, great Johnnie Johnson who died just a few weeks ago as I write this, rolls the ivories on the slow grind of "But On The Other Hand" and the swaggering album highlight "Ernestine", which also features some really great harmonica playing courtesy of Matthew Skoller. Johnson's deceptively simple (and all too brief) solo on the latter track is pure joy, and "Royal Blue" would look right at home in any good blues-collection. It is a rare treasure: A real, 21st century blues record, not blues-rock, not funk, not watered down pop-blues, just blues, down and dirty Chicago blues played and sung the way it ought to be.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars 4½ stars, really. A great comeback for the Queen, 24 April 2005
By Docendo Discimus (Vita scholae) - See all my reviews
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2000's "Royal Blue" is Koko Taylor's first Alligator album in seven years. It is a tough and very well-arranged collection of blues and R&B, and the overall quality of the material is very high...there really isn't a bad song to be found.

The band is excellent as well, and Koko Taylor's rough voice has lost little or none of its power. Keb' Mo' plays gritty slide guitar on Taylor's self-penned acoustic "The Man Next Door", and Elmore James' piano player, the late, great Johnnie Johnson who died just a few week ago as I write this, rolls the ivories on the slow grind of "But On The Other Hand" and the swaggering album highlight "Ernestine", which also features some really great harmonica playing courtesy of Matthew Skoller.

And there are plenty of other memorable songs, like the bump and grind of "Bring Me Some Water" and "Don't Let Me Catch You", and the powerful opener "Save Your Breath", all of them performed with power and conviction.
This is one of those records which get better with each subsequent listen. Fans of Koko Taylor will not want to miss it, and casual listeners should find a lot to like as well. "Royal Blue" is a great comeback for the Queen of the blues, or perhaps a great continuance. It will look right at home in any collection of genuine Chicago blues.
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