Joanne Shaw Taylor

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Joanne Shaw Taylor in Scarborough (2010)

Joanne Shaw Taylor (* 1986 in England ) is a British blues-rock - guitarist and singer-songwriter who at the age of 16 years by Dave Stewart of the Eurythmics was discovered.

life and career

Joanne Shaw Taylor grew up in Wednesbury in the Black Country of England. As a teenager she started playing the blues; their role models were Stevie Ray Vaughan , Albert Collins and Jimi Hendrix . Dave Stewart heard Taylor performing and in 2002 invited her to tour Europe with his project DUP.

In May 2009 Taylor released her debut album White Sugar on Ruf Records . Her second album was Diamonds in the Dirt in 2010 , also on Ruf Records. Both albums reached position 8 on the US blues charts. In 2010 and 2011 she won a British Blues Award in the Best Female Vocalist category . In 2011 she received the Songwriter of the Year award for her song Same As It Never Was , and in 2015 her song Mud Honey received an award.

On June 4, 2012, Taylor played lead guitar in Annie Lennox's band at the Diamond Jubilee Concert in London .

Discography

Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
The dirty truth
  UK 41 04/10/2014 (1 week)
Wild
  CH 86 10/09/2016 (1 week)
  UK 19th 10/13/2016 (2 weeks)
Reckless Heart
  DE 53 March 22, 2019 (1 week)
  CH 31 March 24, 2019 (1 week)
  UK 20th March 28, 2019 (1 week)
  • 2009: White Sugar
  • 2010: Diamonds in the Dirt
  • 2012: Almost Always Never
  • 2013: Songs from the Road
  • 2014: The Dirty Truth
  • 2016: Wild
  • 2019: Reckless Heart

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Joanne Shaw Taylor on the pages of Ruf Records
  2. ↑ Allmusic, see web links
  3. ↑ Chart sources: DE CH UK
personal data
SURNAME Taylor, Joanne Shaw
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British blues rock guitarist and singer-songwriter
DATE OF BIRTH 1986
PLACE OF BIRTH England , UK