The Blues Album

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All you are adding is reverb and delay, and that’s how you do a blues album. You want that continuity, that it’s one guitar, one band, and that is what it is.” day ago Finnish Industrial-flavored metal band Kaos Krew releases their sixth album in December – final single out now! I doubt I will ever play rhythm guitar or write my own songs again because was so much more relaxing to make Martine: (Laughter) Did you play at all with your band during the pandemic or did you take a break from everything? Sometimes you have to do that. It really is good to hear that the label was supportive. Like you say, it can be a 24/7 grind, and the relationship with the instrument almost becomes adversarial.

Joe made it known from the get-go that his main objective for this album was to push me as a singer,” recalls Joanne. “Obviously, Joe has seen me perform many times over the years and knows my voice well. I think he felt that he could my vocal performance more, and get more out of it, especially since I’d had over a year to rest my vocal cords.” Martine Ehrenclou: Congratulations on your new release, The Blues Album. Great album. Your voice and guitar are both outstanding. Joanne: I guess so. You don’t usually blend those lines. To have my best friend producing an album, and as you mentioned, he’s incredibly talented and at the top of his game and certainly at the top of this genre. It’s a little intimidating. I was worried about that. I think it made us better friends because after two weeks of being in the studio, he’d seen me play the good notes and all the bad notes. Once you’ve seen someone in their yoga pants, watching The Crown and eating popcorn, if you can still respect them as an artist, you’re onto a winner, really. (Laughter) Richard Skelly. "Joanne Shaw Taylor | Awards". AllMusic. Archived from the original on 11 January 2015 . Retrieved 10 November 2013.a b "British Blues Awards 2011". Britishbluesawards.com. Archived from the original on 19 October 2011 . Retrieved 15 October 2011. Joanne: I think it’s collaboration. It’s not so much giving in as just handing yourself over to them and going, “This is how I sing, this is how I play guitar. How do you want this to sound?” I said to Joe going in, “I’m really flexible and I will give you that on the basis that if I put my foot down and say, ‘I don’t like something’ you know I mean it. But I’ll only pull that card maybe once.” Joanne Shaw Taylor: Thank you very much, Love. That’s nice to hear. I’ve always loved singing, but I’ve found it more of a challenge and therefore, more rewarding to try and push myself more on that, which we certainly did. (Laughter) And Joe (Bonamassa) certainly tried to push me. a b "Biography by Richard Skelly". AllMusic. Archived from the original on 11 January 2015 . Retrieved 1 October 2011.

Joanne Shaw Taylor on SRV, Pedals, and the Guitar She Got From Joe Bonamassa. Reverb.com (Video narrative). 30 April 2018 . Retrieved 6 March 2022. I phoned Joe and said, ‘You do realise that I am not bringing anything except for one guitar?’ And he said, ‘Well that’s helpful because I don’t own any!’ The funny thing is, we used his amps, which he selected without talking to me – and I say that because I am fine with that situation. He selected a 1962 Deluxe Reverb, I believe, and one of his Dumble Overdrive amps and then blended the two.JOANNE SHAW TAYLOR | full Official Chart History | Official Charts Company". Officialcharts.com . Retrieved 16 May 2018. Yeah, his guitar playing to me is like a singer, particularly in his phrasing. The thing is, for me, one is as equally important as the other. Look at the giants in this genre, like the three Kings, Howling Wolf or Muddy Waters, or Luther Allison; they were brilliant singers. Ignoring the guitar playing, they could have been professional singers, so I think people don’t realise how equally important it is. It is two voices that sort of come together to sell you a song.”