Joanne Shaw Taylor - Is coming to a legendary London Blues venue

March 13th / 14th 2020

London, Nell's Jazz and Blues, UK

Let's get reckless in London with Joanne Shaw Taylor

Next year 2020 Blues singer / guitarist Joanne Shaw Taylor is going to play two very special shows at the legendary venue Nell's Jazz and Blues in London, these two shows will take place on the 13th and 14th of March. This for a lot of people be the first chance to hear Joanne play material off her brand new album 'Reckless Heart', a record that we think will take her to the next level. Tickets for the two shows are on sale now, so I would get them quickly to avoid disappointment.

Six albums in Joanne Shaw Taylor has nothing to prove, but plenty to say. 'Reckless Heart' is the follow up to 2016’s top twenty hit 'Wild', finds the British Blues musician in glorious form and a mischievous mood, one minute bearing her claws with catty lyrics, the next deliriously in love. In several senses, it’s an album of firsts -the first made in Joanne’s adopted home town of Detroit, the first produced by her close friend Al Sutton (Greta Van Fleet / Kid Rock), the first largely recorded live and the first tofeature an unplugged solo performance and, by chance, a passing train.

But it’s also an album thatpulls the past in to the present. The good-time grooves of vintage, British Blues Rock are given a modern makeover, while Joanne’s most powerful, yet intimate vocals to date take their cue from the gritty Soul greats such as Aretha Franklin, Tina Turner and Mavis Staples... all of which she grew up on. Born in the Black Country and discovered aged sixteen by Eurythmics’ co-founder Dave Stewart, Joanne has spent a decade releasing increasingly successful albums and touring the World. Along the way, she has won over fans from Joe Bonamassa to Stevie Wonder to Annie Lennox.

A decade ago, Joanne moved to Detroit as her career in the States was developing. On her first day there, she met the veteran producer Al Sutton and the pair instantly became friends. Ever since, they’ve talked of working together but due to conflicting schedules, not until 'Reckless Heart' did it happen. The pair started work this summer at Al’s fabulously named Rust Belt Studios, a mere five miles from Joanne’s Detroit home. For the first time making an album, every night she slept in her own bed.

No guitar pedals were used in the making of 'Reckless Heart'. It was straight in to amps for a simple, raw sound that encouraged Joanne to be ever more open in her songwriting. The loose, late 60's recordings of Jeff Beck and RodStewart became touchstones. Ditto the Soul singers that Joanne discovered as a child courtesy of her mum, if you have not heard her yet she is well worth checking out.