Joanne Shaw Taylor

Joanne Shaw Taylor was born in February 1985 in Wednesbury, a town in the Sandwell metropolitan district of the West Midlands (England). Growing up in the Birmingham area, she discovered the blues, which she listened to passionately, distilled by the guitars of her masters and influences Stevie Ray Vaughan, Albert Collins and Jimi Hendrix. Her progress on the instrument was so meteoric that Dave Stewart, half of the synthpop duo Eurythmics, invited her to join his supergroup D.U.P. on a European tour in 2002 (she was just 17). However, it wasn't until 2009 that the young Englishwoman released her debut album White Sugar via Ruf Records. Like its successor Diamonds in the Dirt in 2010, it stands out for its eighth place in the American blues charts. After Almost Always Never in 2012 comes Songs from the Road in 2013. Just one year later, the prolific Joanne Shaw Taylor released her fifth opus in five years. The Dirty Truth reached number 41 in the UK charts. With her next two albums, Wild in 2016 and Reckless Heart in 2019, she enters the UK Top 20 (at #19 and #20 respectively). The Blues Album follows in 2021 at #56 in the UK. Produced by Joe Bonamassa, its successor, Blues from the Heart: Live, released in 2022, features the participation of Kenny Wayne Shepherd on the track "Can't You See What You're Doing to Me". The album reaches number 34 in the German charts. The blues guitarist unveils her successor in June 2024. Heavy Soul, based on the singles "Sweet 'Lil Lies", "Black Magic" and "Wild Love", reached number 82 in Germany and number 20 in Scotland. Without delay, a new series of tracks is already recorded and no less than six singles follow one another during 2024, before the release of the tenth album Black & Gold in June 2025.

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