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Indigo Hour: TJ Hooker-Taylor & the St. Louis Taylorize Band at the Blue Room

Name: Indigo Hour: TJ Hooker-Taylor & the St. Louis Taylorize Band at the Blue Room
Start: 2026-10-30T22:30:00.000Z
End: 2026-10-31T00:30:00.000Z
Location: Blue Room

Fri, Oct 30 · 5:30 p.m.CDT

Blue Room · Kansas City

TJ Hooker-Taylor, the son of soul-blues singer Johnnie Taylor, sings at Indigo Hour. About this Event TJ Hooker-Taylor says he didn't even like the blues until his 25th birthday, when he got the chan…

Indigo Hour: TJ Hooker-Taylor & the St. Louis Taylorize Band at the Blue Room

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When

Fri, Oct 30 · 5:30 p.m.Ends 7:30 p.m.CDT

Where

Blue Room1600 East 18th Street, Kansas City, MO 64108

Free

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Date and time: Fri, Oct 30 · 5:30 p.m.Ends 7:30 p.m.CDT — local Kansas City time
Location: Blue Room1600 East 18th Street, Kansas City, MO 64108Kansas City

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TJ Hooker-Taylor, the son of soul-blues singer Johnnie Taylor, sings at Indigo Hour.

About this Event

TJ Hooker-Taylor says he didn't even like the blues until his 25th birthday, when he got the chance to open for his father, Johnnie Taylor, and get paid. That, he told Soul-Blues Music, is "when the Blues hit me." His father was the voice behind "Who's Making Love" (1968), "Cheaper to Keep Her" (1973), and "Disco Lady" (1976), and for ten years Hooker-Taylor opened for him at the Thanksgiving Breakfast Dance. He also helped tell his father's story: Gregory M. Hasty wrote I Believe in You: The Incredible Journey of R&B Legend Johnnie Taylor with him.

He grew up singing in Kansas City churches and joined his first group, The Young Golden Voices, at ten. At 16 he started an R&B band, The Grand Jury Band, which opened for the Bar-Kays, Cameo, and Slave.

He's released records of his own since 2005, among them Your Babies Need a Daddy (2009) and Taylorized (2012), and Daddy B. Nice's Southern So