For the last couple of years, Joanne Shaw Taylor has been busy redefining the meaning of the cliché, "plays like a girl"..... How did you spend your summer vacation when you were 17 years old? She spent hers touring Europe with the super group D.U.P. with fellow band members Dave Stewart (Eurythmics), Candy Dulfer (Prince) and Jimmy Cliff.

If you can imagine the love child of Stevie Ray Vaughan and Dusty Springfield then you are beginning to get a feel for Joanne's mixture of fiery guitar playing, sultry vocals and 100% pure soul. But unlike many other young phenomenons's, she has quickly developed a résumé to back up the hype. Born and raised amidst the steel works of Britain's Black Country; she picked up a guitar and got turned on to the blues as a very young teenager.

Dave Stewart first discovered Joanne when he saw her perform at a charity gig hosted by UB40 at the tender age of 16 and his reaction was as follows..."I have played with all sorts of blues musicians all over the world such as R.L Burnside and Jesse-Mae Hemphill.

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!!! Not only was I in total shock but it took me a good few minutes to ask her how long she had been playing like that ? "A few years" she replied "how old are you now" I asked "sixteen" she said. I woke up a few seconds later on the floor".
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