Tag Archives: Joanne Shaw Taylor

Ain’t Doing Too Bad

Here’s a little something to help get your summer off to the right start: another scorching edition of our BluesPowR Radio Hour featuring recent music from Joe Bonamassa’s Muddy Wolf Tribute, Joanne Shaw Taylor, Billy Boy Arnold, Benny Turner, Duke … Continue reading

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Plenty of blues at the roots of second annual Lancaster music festival

If you’re looking for a modern-day example of the famous Willie Dixon adage “The blues are the roots and the other musics are the fruits” in action, then think of the Lancaster Roots & Blues Festival as the equivalent of … Continue reading

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Blues-rocker Joanne Shaw Taylor reveals The Dirty Truth on indie label debut

After three acclaimed studio albums as well as last fall’s live Songs from the Road CD/DVD set – all on the German Ruf Records label – UK-born, now U.S.-based, blues-rocker Joanne Shaw Taylor has stepped out on her own with … Continue reading

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Joanne Shaw Taylor show in photos

Photos from the recent Joanne Shaw Taylor show at Moondog’s are now available for viewing in our BluesPowR Gallery, where you’ll also find albums capturing performances from the likes of Johnny Winter and James Cotton, B.B. King, Buddy Guy, Sugar … Continue reading

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Joanne Shaw Taylor brings songs from the road to Pittsburgh

We’ve been looking forward to guitarist and singer Joanne Shaw Taylor making an appearance here in the ‘burgh now for some time, so we were pretty happy to be able to catch her at Moondog’s just before we set off … Continue reading

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Joanne Shaw Taylor lets it burn on Songs from the Road live CD/DVD set

We’ve written here a few times before about the British-born, now U.S.-based blues rocker Joanne Shaw Taylor. And we’ve also told you about Ruf Records’ popular Songs from the Road series, including a recent set from fellow Brit guitar slinger … Continue reading

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The year in re-blues, part 2: presenting the BluesPowR Radio Hour

Just before the new year, you may recall we took a quick look back at some of the best of 2012. But since words themselves don’t always do justice to the great new music we heard and wrote about during … Continue reading

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With new Almost Always Never, Joanne Shaw Taylor almost never fails to delight

U.K. blues-rock guitar-slinger Joanne Shaw Taylor may not have come away from last weekend’s British Blues Awards with any prizes, relinquishing the best female vocalist honor she’s held for the past two years to Chantel McGregor this time around, but she’s certainly got a winner of … Continue reading

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With Diamonds, another fine gem from Joanne Shaw Taylor

If it’s true what many say (and we’re certainly not arguing it) about British blues-rock guitarist Joanne Shaw Taylor having taken the music world by storm with her 2009 debut album White Sugar – an effort that earned her both a British Blues Award … Continue reading

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