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Blues
brings popular Australian radio hosts to Vicksburg.
Hamish and
Andy spent noontime with "LD" and "King
Edward"
Read
about it in the Vicksburg Post
The
Queen Of The Blues Has Died
 Grammy
Award-winning blues legend Koko Taylor, 80, died on June
3, 2009 in her hometown of Chicago, IL, as a result of
complications following her May 19 surgery to correct a
gastrointestinal bleed. On May 7, 2009, the critically
acclaimed Taylor, known worldwide as the "Queen of
the Blues," won her 29th Blues
Music Award (for Traditional Female Blues Artist
Of The Year), making her the recipient of more
Blues Music Awards than any other artist. In 2004
she received the NEA National
Heritage Fellowship Award, which is among the
highest honors given to an American artist. Her most
recent CD, 2007's Old School, was nominated for a Grammy
(eight of her nine Alligator albums were
Grammy-nominated). She won a Grammy in 1984 for her
guest appearance on the compilation
album Blues
Explosion on Atlantic.
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