Modern Blues-Joanne Shaw Taylor

Here's my own compilation of modern blues with the sensational talented girl Joanne Shaw Taylor. For you who have not listened to this kind of music before,GIVE THIS A TRY!!



Some bio:

Joanne Shaw Taylor embodies all the elements of modern blues, even if she sings with a distinctively British accent. Given her extraordinary dexterity as a guitarist and well-developed vocal chops, Taylor was already a sensation on the blues festival circuit in both the U.S. and Great Britain when only in her mid-twenties. Taylor caught the blues bug as a young teenager growing up in the Birmingham area. She heard guitarists Stevie Ray Vaughan, Albert Collins, and Jimi Hendrix and knew then that was the kind of music she wanted to pursue, eventually full-time.



Producer Dave Stewart (of Eurythmics fame) said of Taylor, several years previously when he first heard her: "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 with 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! (Taylor was just 16 years old at that time.) Stewart was so impressed with her playing and musicianship that he asked her to accompany his supergroup, D.U.P., in touring Europe in 2002. She was also offered a record deal but the company went bankrupt.



Seven years later, in May 2009 and with Taylor 23 years old, she released her stunning debut album, White Sugar.