Album: Almost Always Never by Joanne Shaw Taylor (2012)
Genre: Blues
Format: Album

Description: Almost Always Never is the third album album by British blues rock artist Joanne Shaw Taylor. It was released on 17 September 2012 on Ruf Records.

    Joanne Shaw Taylor - All electric guitars, vocals, and Gordon on tracks 4 and 12.
    David Garza - Piano, Wurti, Rhodes, RMI, Hammond, Mandolin, and Gordon.
    Billy White - Precision bass, and acoustic slide.
    J.J. Johnson - All drums.

Artist Background: Joanne Shaw Taylor (born 1986, England) is a British blues guitarist and singer, who was discovered by Dave Stewart of the Eurythmics at the age of 16. She has released three studio albums to date; the most recent, entitled Almost Always Never, was released on 17 September 2012. The British music publication, Blues Matters!, called Taylor "the new face of the blues". Part of the English music scene. Associated with Blues movement.

Related Artists: Walter Trout, Samantha Fish, Joe Bonamassa, Kenny Wayne Shepherd

Music Scene: Part of the English music scene. Associated with Blues movement.

Tags: Blues, 2010s, Album


Almost Always Never is the third album album by British blues rock artist Joanne Shaw Taylor. It was released on 17 September 2012 on Ruf Records.

    Joanne Shaw Taylor - All electric guitars, vocals, and Gordon on tracks 4 and 12.
    David Garza - Piano, Wurti, Rhodes, RMI, Hammond, Mandolin, and Gordon.
    Billy White - Precision bass, and acoustic slide.
    J.J. Johnson - All drums.

Album: Diamonds in the Dirt by Joanne Shaw Taylor (2010)
Genre: Blues
Format: Album

Artist Background: Joanne Shaw Taylor (born 1986, England) is a British blues guitarist and singer, who was discovered by Dave Stewart of the Eurythmics at the age of 16. She has released three studio albums to date; the most recent, entitled Almost Always Never, was released on 17 September 2012. The British music publication, Blues Matters!, called Taylor "the new face of the blues". Part of the English music scene. Associated with Blues movement.

Related Artists: Walter Trout, Samantha Fish, Joe Bonamassa, Kenny Wayne Shepherd

Music Scene: Part of the English music scene. Associated with Blues movement.

Tags: Blues, 2010s, Album


Album: Wild by Joanne Shaw Taylor (2016)
Genre: Blues | Mood: Enlightened
Format: Album

Description: “It’s a little bit different,” says Joanne Shaw Taylor of her fifth studio album in a recent interview and she sure isn’t wrong either. Wild is a ride filled with pure emotion that’s been sprinkled with a touch of spice and seasoned with more than a dab of zest.
From the opening Dyin’ To Know, there is an edgy rawness to what Shaw Taylor has produced along with Kevin Shirley that drags you to the front of the seat and barely gives you time to sit back. The addition of Rob McNelly’s understated guitar contribution and Michael Rhodes’ subtle bass lines all help add a measure of depth to offset what, on the face of it, could be ‘just another blues album’, with No Reason To Stay – the debut single – exemplifying the fact that here is an artist who can take the straightforward and make it remarkable.
Wild Is the Wind summons up Etta James in its resonance and maturity, whereas Get You Back is all out angst filled bravado which further underscores that there’s a multi-faceted quality at work that catches you refreshingly unawares.
Channelling her emotions from breaking up a long standing relationship throughout, Shaw Taylor rips it up superbly on Wanna Be My Lover – the keys of Steve Nathan and the drums of Greg Morrow respectively sitting beneath and above a pulsating riff that makes the toes tap spontaneously – so that, again, sensitivity glistens like a freshly cut filet mignon. To continue the food analogy, I’m In Chains is very definitely a fresh Vindaloo such is its tangy, long lasting heat, with the guitar being used like a Kenwood kitchen knife to slice up more than a few unseen inner demons.

Artist Background: Joanne Shaw Taylor (born 1986, England) is a British blues guitarist and singer, who was discovered by Dave Stewart of the Eurythmics at the age of 16. She has released three studio albums to date; the most recent, entitled Almost Always Never, was released on 17 September 2012. The British music publication, Blues Matters!, called Taylor "the new face of the blues". Part of the English music scene. Associated with Blues movement.

Related Artists: Walter Trout, Samantha Fish, Joe Bonamassa, Kenny Wayne Shepherd

Music Scene: Part of the English music scene. Associated with Blues movement.

Tags: Blues, Enlightened, 2010s, Album

Additional Context: Rating score: 6. Based on 1 votes


“It’s a little bit different,” says Joanne Shaw Taylor of her fifth studio album in a recent interview and she sure isn’t wrong either. Wild is a ride filled with pure emotion that’s been sprinkled with a touch of spice and seasoned with more than a dab of zest.
From the opening Dyin’ To Know, there is an edgy rawness to what Shaw Taylor has produced along with Kevin Shirley that drags you to the front of the seat and barely gives you time to sit back. The addition of Rob McNelly’s understated guitar contribution and Michael Rhodes’ subtle bass lines all help add a measure of depth to offset what, on the face of it, could be ‘just another blues album’, with No Reason To Stay – the debut single – exemplifying the fact that here is an artist who can take the straightforward and make it remarkable.
Wild Is the Wind summons up Etta James in its resonance and maturity, whereas Get You Back is all out angst filled bravado which further underscores that there’s a multi-faceted quality at work that catches you refreshingly unawares.
Channelling her emotions from breaking up a long standing relationship throughout, Shaw Taylor rips it up superbly on Wanna Be My Lover – the keys of Steve Nathan and the drums of Greg Morrow respectively sitting beneath and above a pulsating riff that makes the toes tap spontaneously – so that, again, sensitivity glistens like a freshly cut filet mignon. To continue the food analogy, I’m In Chains is very definitely a fresh Vindaloo such is its tangy, long lasting heat, with the guitar being used like a Kenwood kitchen knife to slice up more than a few unseen inner demons.

Album: White Sugar by Joanne Shaw Taylor (2009)
Genre: Blues
Format: Album

Artist Background: Joanne Shaw Taylor (born 1986, England) is a British blues guitarist and singer, who was discovered by Dave Stewart of the Eurythmics at the age of 16. She has released three studio albums to date; the most recent, entitled Almost Always Never, was released on 17 September 2012. The British music publication, Blues Matters!, called Taylor "the new face of the blues". Part of the English music scene. Associated with Blues movement.

Related Artists: Walter Trout, Samantha Fish, Joe Bonamassa, Kenny Wayne Shepherd

Music Scene: Part of the English music scene. Associated with Blues movement.

Tags: Blues, 2000s, Album


Album: The Dirty Truth by Joanne Shaw Taylor (2014)
Format: Album

Artist Background: Joanne Shaw Taylor (born 1986, England) is a British blues guitarist and singer, who was discovered by Dave Stewart of the Eurythmics at the age of 16. She has released three studio albums to date; the most recent, entitled Almost Always Never, was released on 17 September 2012. The British music publication, Blues Matters!, called Taylor "the new face of the blues". Part of the English music scene. Associated with Blues movement.

Related Artists: Walter Trout, Samantha Fish, Joe Bonamassa, Kenny Wayne Shepherd

Music Scene: Part of the English music scene. Associated with Blues movement.

Tags: 2010s, Album


Album: Reckless Heart by Joanne Shaw Taylor (2019)
Format: Album

Artist Background: Joanne Shaw Taylor (born 1986, England) is a British blues guitarist and singer, who was discovered by Dave Stewart of the Eurythmics at the age of 16. She has released three studio albums to date; the most recent, entitled Almost Always Never, was released on 17 September 2012. The British music publication, Blues Matters!, called Taylor "the new face of the blues". Part of the English music scene. Associated with Blues movement.

Related Artists: Walter Trout, Samantha Fish, Joe Bonamassa, Kenny Wayne Shepherd

Music Scene: Part of the English music scene. Associated with Blues movement.

Tags: 2010s, Album


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