Musical Farewell to Koko Taylor

Hundreds of mourners lined up to attend funeral services for late Chicago blues legend Koko Taylor, a day after musicians paid tribute at a wake to the woman known as "Queen of the Blues."

A diverse crowd of blues fans -- young and old, black and white -- milled around Rainbow/PUSH Coalition headquarters on Chicago's South Side Friday evening. Soft music played as mourners passed around boxes of tissue.

Once services began, a series of singers sang the blues in Taylor's honor.

On Thursday, hundreds of mourners passed by Taylor's casket. Mayor Richard Daley and blues legend Buddy Guy attended the musical tribute performance.

A daughter of a sharecropper, Taylor died June 3 at age 80 at a Chicago hospital after surgery.