In 1964 Willie Dixon urged Koko to write her own music. The first song she wrote, "What Kind of Man Is This?" was a tribute to Pops, her husband, friend, promoter, and producer for thirty-five years--written in 1964 while she was pregnant with their first child. Taylor's subsequent musical growth would eventually lead her away from Chess in 1972, the year she formed her own band, The Blues Machine. Three years later, when Chess went out of business, Taylor signed with Alligator Records the Chicago label which has since become the biggest blues label in the nation. There she produced a string of award-winning albums. (Now, )By her own admission, she's "the only woman out there singing the old, traditional Mississippi blues."
...“What Kind of Man Is This?,” was written with Pops in mind. “Because--going back in time--that’s how I felt,” she told Contemporary Musicians. “He was like a great big bundle of joy.”
What Kind Of Man Is This? - Koko Taylor
(Koko Taylor, Arc Music Corp., BMI)
Recorded June 30, 1964
Cora (Koko) Taylor (vocal)
Walter Horton (harmonica)
Lafayette Leake (piano)
Buddy Guy, Robert Nighthawk (guitar)
Jack Meyers (bass)
Clifton James (drums)
Originally Checker single 1092.
Previously unreleased on U.S. album.