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Joanne Shaw Taylor

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General Info

  • Genre: Blues / Rock / Soul

    Location Detroit, Michigan, US

    Profile Views: 366373

    Last Login: 4/29/2012

    Member Since 10/26/2005

    Website www.joanneshawtaylor.com

    Record Label Ruf Records

    Type of Label Indie

  • Bio

    ..Header Banner Made with MyBannerMaker.com! Click here to make your own!..............Make your own banner at MyBannerMaker.com!.... ......Myspace Layouts.. @ ..Cool-myspacelayouts.blogspot.com.... .... ..Free Myspace Layouts.... "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!" (Dave Stewart/Eurythmics) When Dave Stewart had his big experience, Joanne Shaw Taylor was only 16. Her skills at the Telecaster were so perfect that the bluesfan and Eurythmics-frontman asked her to join his supergroup D.U.P. to tour europe in 2002. She was also offered a record contract but the label went bust. Today Joanne is 23 and happy about the fact that she took her time with the recording debut: "I wanted to take time out to really work on my craft and make sure that when I did an album it was the best that I could do." For "White Sugar" Joanne took a plane to Memphis where her label RUF had booked Jim Gaines.. studio. Jim had worked with some of Joanne..s idols like Albert Collins and Stevie Ray Vaughan. He brought in the experienced sessionmen Steve Potts (Drums) und Dave Smith (Bass). "Working with these guys was totally easy. I knew of them because of Luther Allison and the Jonny Lang albums. They didn..t know the tracks until five minutes before we recorded them. I made them listen to the songs once and then play them. It was fantastic. They got so much feeling and soul. They are amazing guys to work with." The power trio - that..s the kind of band which suits Joanne Shaw Taylor, also at home in Birmingham, where she and her trio play the pubs, clubs and festivals. "I always wanted to try the power trio thing, like Stevie Ray Vaughan, the Paladins or Jimi Hendrix. I thought it would bring me on as a guitar player and a singer - which I think it has done. And" - Joanne chuckles - "it..s also cheaper, you know." She talks about some influences. When Joanne was a little schoolgirl, she was caught by the rough side of the blues: SRV, Albert Collins, the Paladins, Jimi Hendrix. At christmas she got her first electric guitar. The old classical guitar, which she had played since she was eight, vanished from the children..s room. "As soon as I heard SRV and Albert Collins I knew pretty much that I wanted to do that full stop. That was the lifestyle route that I was goin.. to go down. It was never a hobby. It was always very serious and dedicated to it." "White Sugar" is the proof. The confident and young british woman keeps the traditions of her idols but she is going her own way. With her record debut she demonstrates her talent with ten songs that she has written herself. Playing the hard stuff à la SRV, 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 presents her craft powerfully. Some songs were written during the the flight to Memphis, a few others were written 10 years ago and are kind of her signature tunes. There is the autobiographical "Kiss The Ground Goodbye", deep feelings come wirh "Heavy Heart" or "Blackest Day", a song that Joanne wrote when she was 14. "With ..Blackest Day.. I really wanted to show my influences." She can be proud of her first album. ""She..s my pride & joy..." SRV once sang. Her fans will be proud of Joanne, too...

  • Members

    Joanne Shaw Taylor Paul Lamb Layla Hall

  • Influences

    Stevie Ray Vaughan, Jimmie Vaughan, Jimi Hendrix, The Fabulous Thunderbirds, Albert Collins, BB king, Freddie King, Sean Costello, Buddy Guy, Nick Curran, The Hoax, John Mayer, Bonnie Raitt

  • Sounds Like

    www.youtube.com/joanneshawtaylor .. .. .. .. .. .. ..

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  • Peter Arndell

    Thanks, Joanne...

    2 years ago
  • Robson Ruas

    Thank you for your friendship
    and for sharing your music with me!
    Best wishes.
    God bless it.
    Have a great weekend!

    3 years ago
  • Larry Funk

    Hey Joanne ... I've been spending a lot of time on the hiway lately and White Sugar has been spending a LOT of time in my CD player while I'm driving. Every time it goes in the CD player it has to play at least 3 or 4 times through before anything else goes in. And "BONES" usually gets a replay at least 5 or 6 times ... what a ROCKIN' TUNE! Just wanted to say thanks very much for the audio pleasure you have provided! Keep on "Rockin' It 'Til It's Blue"!

    3 years ago
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  • Jenny

    You have really great blues sounds and I'm looking forward to hearing a lot more of your music. Thanks for adding me to your friends.
    Have a great weekend and a successful 2010.

    3 years ago
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    3 years ago
  • Lino Meletto

    hey Joanne, how r u doing? just stopping to say hi!
    hope to see u again with Johnny or Eric..

    3 years ago
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    Cool cause by the end of Wednesday, you'll be Smiling and you'll know
    why with me Singing you a Love Song on the edge of your Bed!

    3 years ago
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  • Tyrone Smith

    Thanks so much for the Add.. I'm hoping there was some music on my page that you enjoyed. Have a Wonderful and Positive week! New Albums on iTunes, Rhapsody, Amazon, eMusic, & My Snocap Store.
    Tell A Friend! Feel Free to Choose One for Ur Playlist  or Even Better.. Consider Adding me to your TOPS!!
    Remember that "Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born."
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    3 years ago
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