Grammy Nomination for Koko Taylor's 'Old School'

Old School, the newest album by Koko Taylor, the Queen of the Blues, has received a Grammy nomination in the category of Best Traditional Blues Album.

According to Alligator Records:

On Old School, Taylor returns to the sounds of the 1950s electric blues she heard when first arriving in Chicago on a Greyhound bus from Memphis. With five original compositions (more than she has written on any previous recording) and singular reinterpretations of songs she carefully chose, Old School has been hailed as the best album of her entire career.

Over the course of her nine Alligator albums, Taylor has won every award the blues world has to offer, including eight Grammy Award nominations. She won a Grammy Award in 1984 for her participation in the compilation album Blues Explosion. Taylor has performed for Presidents George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton, and appeared on television and in movies countless times.

Here is the complete list of 2008 Grammy nominations in the blues categories:

Category 66

Best Traditional Blues Album
(Vocal or Instrumental.)

• Pinetop Perkins On The 88's - Live In Chicago
  Pinetop Perkins
  [Sagebrush Productions/Vizztone Label Group]
  
  
• Live...And In Concert From San Francisco
  Otis Rush
  [Blues Express, Inc.]
  
  
• 10 Days Out: Blues From The Backroads
  Kenny Wayne Shepherd Featuring Various Artists
  [Reprise Records]
  
  
• Old School
  Koko Taylor
  [Alligator Records]
  
  
• Last Of The Great Mississippi Delta Bluesmen: Live In Dallas
  Henry James Townsend, Joe Willie "Pinetop" Perkins, Robert Lockwood, Jr. & David
  "Honeyboy" Edwards
  [The Blue Shoe Project]
  
  
  

Category 67

Best Contemporary Blues Album
(Vocal or Instrumental.)

• Into the Blues
  Joan Armatrading
  [429 Records]
  
  
• Is It News
  Doyle Bramhall
  [Yep Roc Records]
  
  
• The Road to Escondido
  JJ Cale & Eric Clapton
  [Reprise Records/Warner Music Group]
  
  
• Truth
  Robben Ford
  [Concord Records]
  
  
• Scene of the Crime
  Bettye LaVette
  [Anti]

The winners will be announced on February 10 in Los Angeles.