Northport N.Y. - It's great when
we get our music on TV shows but it's even better when the artist is on the
actual show! The Queen of Blues/Rock Guitar, Joanna Connor will perform a
song for the Fox drama "The Exorcist." The date of broadcast is
Friday November 18th, 9PM Eastern. Click the photo of Joanna Connor and one
of the stars of the show Ben Daniels for more.
Joanna
Connor & Ben Daniels on the set of "The Exorcist"
Since our last update Joanna
Connor's Six
String Stories has received even more right on reviews!
Since it's release on August 26, it has become one of the most celebrated
roots releases of the year.
This album mirrors
her live shows crammed with soul, virtuosity, blues and eclecticism! Vintage Guitar
M.C. Records
delivers Connor and her band in all of their upfront presence with an
excellent recording containing rock solid imaging and a layered and
resonant stage in which Connor’s guitar is free to leap and growl in all
its twisted, raw and dynamic force. Nelson Brill - Boston Concert Reviews
Connors
sings and plays with relentless intensity and virtuosity -
Lively-Arts.com
Click
the cover to listen to the entire recording
The ability of
Joanna’s guitar playing to pull back from the edge is a constant on the
album….it is searing, paint peeling, sky writing fretwork from the guitar
of Joanna Connor. The
Alternate Root
With her dazzling skills on full
display 'Six String Stories' should win her an even wider audience.
Living Blues
'Six String Stories' is her
first studio album in 14 years, but thousands of gigs in the interim have
only enriched Chicago-based Joanna Connor's fierce guitar skills and
expressive, bluesy vocals.
The Associated Press
She’s one powerhouse of a slide
blues guitarist, someone who attacks frets with a beautiful fury and doesn’t
let go. Joanna Connor just put out her first release in 14 years and, wow,
it’s a keeper.
The Toledo Blade
'Six String Stories' is well recorded with good songs and copious guitar
wizardry. Chicago Blues Guide
Once people hear
Joanna’s new disc, no one is going to classify her as as anything
other than first-rate.
Blues Blast Magazine
Her incendiary slide playing is
absolutely breath-taking.
- Elmore Magazine
We're also very excited to release Joanna's first video from the new
record. Check out "It's A Woman's Way." Joanna pays tribute all
her sheroes in this one. Click the photo to view!
We're also thrilled that for seven weeks that Joanna has been on the Roots Music Report's Electric
Blues Albums. She is currently no. 2, click the logo to see
the entire list.
Six String
Stories is the one that the fans who
pack her hometown gigs have been waiting for. You’ll still hear the
scorching solos-- but there’s more to Joanna Connor than that. The disc’s
ten tracks include tastes of gospel, rock, soul and funk; all with the
gutsy singing and heartfelt playing that have always been her trademarks.
Connor wrote eight tracks on Six
String Stories with Marion Lance Lewis, a mainstay of
her live band.
Joanna Connor might be the best—or most
original—blues-based slide guitar player you're likely to come across
today. Or tomorrow. -
Guitar World
Since 2002 Joanna's focus has
been on her family and playing in the Chicago area. Joanna picks up the
story there, I was ready to lay down some new tracks in the studio. I
turned my focus toward exploring recording again. I'm at a point in my life
where I feel in touch with who I am as a woman and a musician. Mark
Carpentieri and his label were the first that came to my mind to contact.
His good energy and knowing when to guide an artist and when to let them
fly was important to me. I respect his labels catalog and his work and I am
proud and happy to be back. The feeling is mutual Joanna!
Joanna Connor is celebrating 30
years of being in Chicago. Since her arrival she has toured in 25 countries
and 49 states. Joanna was the first artist not on a major label to be
signed to an endorsement deal by Gibson Guitars and Victoria Amps and has
been featured in every major city newspaper and guitar magazine. Connor
composed the soundtrack for Australian documentary "Being Dad,” and has
shared stages with the likes of Jimmy Page, Los Lobos, Robert Cray, BB
King, The Doobie Brothers, Kenny Wayne Sheppard, Son Seals, The Neville
Bros and a host of others. Click here for her complete bio: http://joannaconnor.com/bio/
Complete dates can be found at her website - http://joannaconnor.com/shows/
November
- Wed.
Nov. 16 - HOB- Chicago, IL 60601
- Thur.-Sat
Nov. 17-19th - Kingston Mines - Chicago, IL 60614
- Sun.
Nov. 20 - HOB- Chicago, IL 60601
- Sat.
Nov. 26 - Kingston Mines - Chicago, IL 60614
- Fri.
and Sat. Dec 2 and 3 - Kingston Mines - Chicago, IL 60614
- Wed.
Dec. 7th - Langunista Brewing Company - Chicago IL 60608
- Thur.
and Fri. Dec 8th and 9th - Kingston Mines - Chicago, IL
60614
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