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What It Takes: The Chess Years by Koko Taylor • Jukebox

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What It Takes: The Chess Years

1977 · by Koko Taylor

Blues18 songs56 min

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1
I Got What It Takes (Single Version)
sample avg 3.6
3:08
2
Don't Mess With the Messer
sample avg 3.9
2:46
3
Whatever I Am, You Made Me
sample avg 3.7
2:29
4
I'm a Little Mixed Up
sample avg 3.0
2:42
5
Wang Dang Doodle
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3:02
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(I Got) All You Need (Single Version)
sample avg 3.6
2:18
7
(Just) Love Me (Single Version)
sample avg 3.1
2:48
8
What Came First the Egg Or the Hen (Single Version)
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2:28
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Insane Asylum (feat. Willie Dixon) [Single Version]
sample avg 3.8
4:22
10
Fire (Single Version)
sample avg 3.7
2:35
11
I Don't Care Who Knows (Single Version)
sample avg 3.9
2:14
12
Twenty-Nine Ways (To My Baby's Door)
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3:14
13
Blue Prelude
sample avg 3.2
3:33
14
I Need More and More
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2:44
15
Um Huh My Baby
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3:53
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Bills, Bills and More Bills
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2:52
17
Let Me Love You Baby
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2:49
18
I Got What It Takes (Live At The Montreaux Jazz Festival, Switzerland / 1972)
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6:25

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Review by Yuki Tanaka★★★½Sample

Overhyped? Maybe. Did I still cry at “Um Huh My Baby”? Also maybe.

876 likes

Review by Priya Raman★★★Sample

vibes immaculate, lyrics occasionally a little 'live laugh love'

459 likes

A Geffen Records Release; This Compilation ℗ 1991 UMG Recordings, Inc.

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Review by Tomasz W.★★★★★Sample

Took me three listens. By the third, “Whatever I Am, You Made Me” had moved in and started paying rent.

278 likes

Review by Cass Moreno★★★★Sample

Front half: perfect. Back half: also perfect. I'm annoyed.

254 likes

Review by Jules Archer★★★★Sample

i was not emotionally prepared for “Bills, Bills and More Bills”. nobody warned me. consider yourself warned.

163 likes

Review by Oskar Lind★★★Sample

Good album to do dishes to. Great album to stare at the ceiling to.

5 likes

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