Her bio says it well; “…imagine the love child of Stevie Ray Vaughan and Dusty Springfield…” Although only 23, Joanne Shaw Taylor is no newcomer on the blues scene, and she says she’s “happy about the fact that she took her time” with the recording debut, the recently released White Sugar. Although you get no hint in her smoky soulful singing, Joanne hails from Britian. When she was 16 Dave Stewart (Eurythmics) saw Joanne play and later commented “…I heard something I thought I would never hear…a British white girl playing blues guitar so deep and passionately it made the hairs on the back of my neck stand on end.” He invited her to join his group at the time D.U.P. and tour Europe with them in 2002.
Well, her debut is great and certainly worth the “wait” and contains ten original tunes. One of the tunes, Blackest Day, is a song Joanne wrote when she was 14. Joanne sums up her road to where she is like this; “As soon as I heard SRV and Albert Collins I knew pretty much that I wanted to do that full stop.”
Anyone in the Detroit area has a chance to see her thursday, June 11 at Callahan’s in Auburn Hills. I’m goin’ and will have “highlights at 11″!!
**Unfortunately Joanne’s show will now be on June 13th and I won’t be able to provide ‘highlights’. Still, check out her new cd!
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I went to Amazon and brought up the page for the mp3 album. Here is the link –
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001O3MJG0/ref=dm_sp_al...
-; I listened to the snippet of each track. Wow, she really does sound good. Here is the buy link for her label RUFrecords:
http://www.rufrecords.de/catalogue/1147_joanne-shaw-tayl...
Her myspace page also has some free listens and also lists the upcoming gigs. Sorry to see that there are none in the States upcoming:
http://www.myspace.com/joanneshawtaylor
I have to thank you for introducing me to her music, definitely an up and comer. The reviewers on Amazon compare her voice to Tedeshi. I can't decide who I like more. Both embody what makes the blues great. But I do know thatjoanne can surely burn up some guitar strings!