Chicago. Taylor influenced Bonnie Raitt, Shemekia Copeland, Janis Joplin, Shannon Curfman, and Susan Tedeschi. In her later years, she performed over 70 concerts a year and resided just south of Chicago, in Country Club Hills, Illinois. In 2008, the Internal Revenue Service said that Taylor owed $400,000 in unpaid taxes, penalties and interest, for the years 1998, 2000 and 2001. In those years combined, her adjusted gross income was $949,000. Taylor's final performance was at the Blues Music Awards, on May 7, 2009. She suffered complications from surgery for gastrointestinal bleeding on May 19 and died on June 3. Awards Grammy Award for Best Traditional Blues Album, 1985 Howlin' Wolf Award, 1996 Blues Hall of Fame, inducted 1997 Blues Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award, 1999 NEA National Heritage Fellowship, 2004 Blues Music Award (formerly the W. C. Handy Award), 32 nominations with 29 wins in the following categories: Entertainer of the Year (1985) Female Artist (1981, 1995) Song of the Year (2008) Traditional Blues Album (2008) Traditional Blues Female Artist (1992, 1993, 1999–2005, 2008, 2009) Vocalist of the Year (1985) 7th Annual Independent Music Awards for Best Blues Album, 2008 Discography "Love You Like a Woman", November 30, 1968 (Charly Records) Koko Taylor, 1969 (MCA/Chess Records) Basic Soul, 1972 (Chess) South Side Lady, 1973 (Black and Blue Records) I Got What It Takes, 1975 (Alligator Records) Southside Baby, 1975 (Black & Blue) The Earthshaker, 1978 (Alligator) From the Heart of a Woman, 1981 (Alligator) Queen of the Blues, 1985 (Alligator) Live from Chicago: An Audience with the Queen, 1987 (Alligator) Jump for Joy, 1990 (Alligator) Wang Dang Doodle, 1991 (Huub Records) Force of Nature, 1993 (Alligator) Royal Blue, 2000 (Alligator) Old School, 2007 (Alligator) See also Chicago Blues Festival References External links Official website (redirected to the Koko's page at Alligator Records website) Co-host of "Blues you can use", FM radio station WGVE 88.7, Gary, Indiana "Queen of the Blues: Koko Taylor Talks About Her Subjects", interview by James Plath, 1994 Interview with Koko Taylor on Centerstage Chicago (June 2007) Wild Women Don't Have the Blues features interviews with Koko Taylor Hoekstra, Dave. "Chicago legend and 'Queen of the Blues' Koko Taylor dead at 80," Chicago Sun-Times, Wednesday, June 3, 2009. Koko Taylor - Daily Telegraph obituary Koko Taylor: The Life of a Blues Legend 1928 births 2009 deaths American blues singers 20th-century African-American women singers American rhythm and blues singers