Birmingham, UK

Joanne Shaw Taylor, is taking clubs and festivals across the country by storm! Dave Stewart of Eurythmics fame saw her perform at age 16 and said “I have played with all sorts of blues musicians all over the world; I even made a film ´Deep Blues´ where I went to Mississippi and recorded some legendary players such as R.L Burnside and Jesse-Mae Hemphill. Last year 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!” Her skills at the Telecaster were so perfect that the Eurythmics front man and producer asked her to join his super group D.U.P. to tour Europe in 2002.

Today Joanne is 23 and happy about the fact that she took her time with her recording debut, White Sugar, released in 2009, and nominated for a Blues Music Award. This confident, young British woman keeps the traditions of her idols, but still goes her own way. Playing the hard stuff à la Stevie Ray Vaughn, making us feel the bite of her telecaster just like Albert Collins did, or working out charming little riffs from the Jimi Hendrix book – Joanne is always seeking, and finding new terrain. Funky shuffles, soulful ballads or the hypnotic hookline of the title track, a burning instrumental, she powerfully presents her craft.

Don’t miss the Ozarks debut of this rising star…"Catch her live if you can, then you can say: I was there at the beginning" Blue Print Magazine .

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