Born and raised in the UK, Joanne Shaw Taylor was discovered at age 16 by Eurythmics icon Dave Stewart, who saw her play and immediately invited her to hit the road with his super band DUP, and the music career was born, and Over the next few years, her incredible guitar playing earned her numerous accolades, including Jimmy Cliff, Joe Bonamassa, Stevie Wonder and Annie Lennox.
Still in her 30s, she has become one of rock’s most popular guitarists.
On November 5th, she will perform at the Maryland Theater in Hagerstown as part of her fall tour in support of her new album “Nobody’s Fool.”
Taylor released her first album on Ruf Records, titled “White Sugar” (2009), unleashing her soulful voice to the world and demonstrating her songwriting abilities beyond her age. Over the next few years, she released critically acclaimed albums, including her second album “Diamonds In The Dirt” (2010), and “Almost” featuring the British radio hit “Soul Station” Always Never” (2012), and her last album for Ruf Records, the live album “Songs From The Road” (2013).
In 2014, she released her fourth studio album “The Dirty Truth” on Axehouse Records, which included the singles “Mud, Honey” and “Wicked Soul”. Taylor released her fifth album Wild (produced by Kevin Shirley) in 2016, and she performed the songs “Dyin’ To Know” and “Summertime” on BBC Two’s popular music show Later With Jools . Netherlands. Three years later, in 2019, she signed with Silvertone Records through Sony Music and released her sixth studio album, Reckless Heart.
Over the past two decades, Taylor has proven herself to be a prolific songwriter, releasing seven critically acclaimed albums, each with increasing success, and her 2019 Reckless Heart Break into the UK Top 20 Albums Chart and cemented itself as one of the most important exports of British blues rock.
Produced by Joe Bonamassa and Josh Smith of Oceanway Recording Studios in Nashville, Tennessee, “The Blues Album” marks her seventh studio album and her 2021 debut on Bonamassa’s independent label KTBA Records , debuted the chart on Billboard Blues. In 2022, Taylor has her second Billboard Blues album with Blues From The Heart Live, also released on KTBA Records.
Taylor released her eighth studio album “Nobody’s Fool” on October 28 with returning producers Bonamassa and Smith. The album contains 11 tracks, 9 of which were written or co-written by Taylor, including the lead single “Just No Getting Over You (Dream Cruise)”. Recorded at Sunset Sounds in Los Angeles, her most solo albums to date include Bonamassa’s “Won’t Be Fooled Again”, guitarist Carmen Vandenberg’s “Figure It Out”, cellist Tina Guo’s “Fade Away” and Dave Stewart The cover of the Eurythmics classic “The Missionary”.
