NOVEMBER 2014 UK TOUR
WITH SPECIAL GUEST
BERNIE MARSDEN
PLANET ROCK 48-HOUR TICKET PRE-SALE
WEDNESDAY 4th JUNE
TICKETS ON SALE TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC
AT 9am ON FRIDAY 6th JUNE
NEW STUDIO ALBUM
"THE DIRTY TRUTH"
RELEASED 22nd SEPTEMBER
British blues rock guitarist
Joanne Shaw Taylor returns to UK shores with a
Nationwide UK Tour in
November 2014, which follows hot on the heels of her fourth new studio album,
"The Dirty Truth", which is currently being recorded in Memphis.
Tickets for Joanne’s UK tour goes on sale as an exclusive 48-hour ticket pre-sale on
Planet Rock radio from
Wednesday 4th June.
Fans will be able to pre-order tickets 48 hours before they go on sale
to the general public at 9am on Friday 6th June. Go to
www.planetrock.com for further ticket pre-sale information.
All tickets are priced
£17.50, except London o2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire (
£20).
VIP tickets are £50 and will include entry to sound-check, concert
ticket, Meet & Greet with signing and photo opportunity, signed A3
tour poster, exclusive VIP lanyard and laminate.
The 14-date UK tour will feature former Whitesnake guitarist
Bernie Marsden as special guest.
Fans will also be able to order the following versions of the new album from
www.joanneshawtaylor.com :
- Signed copy of Limited Edition Digipak CD (£12.99) (including p&p)
- Ticket + signed copy of the Ltd Edition Digipak CD (£28.50), (London: £31) (including postage and packing for CD)
- VIP Ticket + Signed copy of the Limited Edition Digipak CD (£61) (including postage and packing for CD)
- The CD will be dispatched separately and will arrive on release date
Photo Credit: © Stephen Fourie
The tour kicks off at the Norwich Epic on 1st November and other UK
including Sheffield, Leeds, Cardiff, Birmingham, London, Cornwall, and
many more.
The new album,
"The Dirty Truth", is released in
the UK on Monday 22nd September on Joanne’s boutique label Axehouse
Records. Joanne will be reunited with Jim Gaines who produced her 2008
debut album
White Sugar.
"I wanted to go back into the studio in Memphis with Jim to retain
the same vibe that we captured on the first album," says Joanne. "The
new album is a combination of rock and blues, and I think it’s going to
be an exciting collaboration, and hopefully, my fans will love the
rockier edge."
Photo Credit: © Stephen Fourie
The forthcoming album and UK tour follows 2013’s critically acclaimed
Songs FromThe Road;
a live album energized with soul power, blues savvy and rock roots.
In May 2013, when Joanne originally performed an intimate concert at
London’s Borderline, The Blues magazine wrote, "Joanne slips from
bursts of muscular rhythm to searing riffs rooted in the blues but not
dominated by it… JST bristles with self-confidence, energy and
excitement."
In 2013 during an in-depth interview, The Blues magazine asked
Joanne if she was having fun playing live. "How can you not enjoy that
job?" she responded. "I get on stage, turn my guitar up really loud and
I shout in the microphone for two hours. It’s like the best therapy in
the world."
Photo Credit: © Al Stuart
In November 2013, TV presenter Malcolm Gerrie said the following
about Joanne in the Sunday Times – "Who said white gals can’t play the
blues? Killer licks, soaring solos and heart-wrenching vocals."
"A Brummie blues singer? Yes, really," wrote the Sunday Telegraph
about Joanne last November. "Joanne Shaw Taylor has enough soul to
compete with the best the Mississippi Delta has to offer."
NOVEMBER 2014 UK TOUR
WITH SPECIAL GUEST
BERNIE MARSDEN
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Regional Show Tickets: £17.50
London Tickets: £20.00 / VIP Tickets: £50.00
MANCHESTER ROYAL NORTHERN COLLEGE
OF MUSIC CONCERT HALL
Tuesday 4th November
Tickets: £17.50 / Box Office: 0161 907 5555
Book Online: www.thegigcartel.com
Manchester RNCM, 124 Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9RD
www.rncm.ac.uk
BIRMINGHAM TOWN HALL
Saturday 15th November
Tickets: £17.50 / Box Office: 0121 345 0600
Book Online: www.thegigcartel.com
Birmingham Town Hall, Victoria Square, Birmingham, B3 3DQ
www.thsh.co.uk
BURY ST EDMUNDS THE APEX
Thursday 20th November
Tickets: £17.50 / Box Office: 01824 758 000
Book Online: www.thegigcartel.com
Bury St Edmunds The Apex, Charter Square, Bury St Edmunds, IP33 3FD
www.theapex.co.uk
Photo Credit: © Joe Armitage c/o BoneShaker Pictures
Joanne Shaw Taylor - Biography
Sold out concerts. Screaming fans. Her name in lights. Joanne Shaw
Taylor never anticipated any of that at the start. Back then, she was
just an ordinary Black Country schoolgirl, bored with the disposable
pop she heard on late 90s radio, rifling her father’s record collection
for sunken treasure, and falling for albums by Stevie Ray Vaughan,
Albert Collins and Jimi Hendrix.
At 13 she played her first electric guitar. "Guitars were always
lying around the house," says Joanne. At 14, she defied her teachers
to play The Marquee and Ronnie Scott’s, and began to overcome
insecurity about her voice.
"I never set out to be a singer," she modestly told
Classic Rock. "I’ve always had a deep voice. I think it came from my influences as a kid.
When I was singing to records, I was listening to Albert Collins and Freddie King. When I was a teenager, I became
a big rock fan: Glenn Hughes, Skin, Doug Pinnick. I wouldn’t get far on The X Factor
."
Joanne left school at 16 and ran straight into her big break, as a
twist of fate directed her demo into the hands of Eurythmics icon Dave
Stewart after a charity gig.
Reflecting on his first impressions, Stewart recalls that "she
made the hairs on the back of my neck stand on end." His call the
following day proved the start of a lasting friendship, with Joanne
seeking his advice on the industry and accompanying his DUP supergroup
across Europe in 2002.
Stewart gave Joanne her first deal, but when the label ran into
financial trouble, it gave her a chance to regroup and work on her
songwriting. Until then, original material had perhaps been a neglected
side of her talent.
"I never really wrote songs until I was 21." Suddenly the dam
broke. In 2008, Ruf won the rush for Joanne’s signature, and soon she
was working with veteran producer Jim Gaines (Carlos Santana, Johnny
Lang, Stevie Ray Vaughan), bassist Dave Smith and drummer Steve Potts
on the songs that became debut album
White Sugar. "We
recorded it in this little backwater town in Tennessee," she recalls,
"and if we needed a break, we’d walk to the shop and buy root beer."
When
White Sugar dropped the following year, taking in gems like
Bones and
Kiss The Ground Goodbye, it turned out the press had a sweet tooth, with
Classic Rock crowning it Blues Album Of The Month and
Guitarist noting "she plays with more attitude and flair than most – massive potential here".
Soon enough, the buzz was building, with Joanne both raising her
profile supporting Black Country Communion, and honing her craft on
2010’s
Diamonds In The Dirt. This second album was another step up, from the explosive lead breaks on
Can’t Keep LivingLike This to the heavier influence of her adopted Detroit hometown on the crunching country-blues of
Dead And Gone.
Not bad, considering she had written the material in just two days and
recorded it in less than a fortnight: "It’s the dreaded second album
curse. You have ten years to do the first one, and ten days to do the
second!"
By then, she was unstoppable, with
Diamonds In The Dirt proving not only a classic record, but also a skeleton key to every door in the industry. Having received a nomination for
Best New Artist Debut at the auspicious
British Blues Awards for
White Sugar, Joanne scooped consecutive wins in the
Best British Female Vocalist bracket at both the 2010/2011 events: a haul that cements her position, as
Blues Matters put it, as "the new face of the blues."
Since then, it’s gone stratospheric, with Joanne breaking into the
notoriously hard-to-crack US market, beating the stereotypes of her
age and gender, and being watched by 17 million viewers as she played
an angel-winged solo during Annie Lennox’s set at the 2012 Diamond
Jubilee Concert.
That same summer gave us
Almost Always Never; a
bar-raising third album that found Joanne dodging expectations, writing
the songs her muse dictated, and diving in at the deep end with just
her talent to keep her afloat.
Recorded in Austin, Texas, these twelve cuts moved from the savage Les Paul solos of
Soul Station and the strutting hooks of
Standing To Fall, to the failed relationship achingly depicted on
You Should Stay, I Should Go
and the title track’s refrain of "You crash, you burn/you live, you
learn". She’d never sounded more open and honest. "I’ve loved every
album I’ve made for many different reasons," reflects Joanne. "But I’m
so proud of these songs. It’s the perfect and truest example of who I
am as an artist to date."
Maybe so, but if you only know Joanne Shaw Taylor as the songwriter and studio magician, then it’s time you heard
Songs From The Road.
Released November 2013 on Ruf Records, it’s a candid snapshot from the
road that makes your front room feel like the front row. "That night
was just really good fun," she reflects. "And I think that translates
on the album."
In May 2014, Joanne reunited with her
White Sugar album producer Jim Gaines, and recorded her new studio album in Memphis. The new studio album entitled
The Dirty Truth
is a return to Joanne’s original sound that mixes rock riffs with blues
influences. The album will be released in the UK on September 22nd
on Joanne’s own independent boutique label
Axehouse Records.
Photo Credit: © MHP Studios
Joanne Shaw Taylor - Official Website
www.joanneshawtaylor.com
Joanne Shaw Taylor - Official Facebook
www.facebook.com/joanneshawtaylo
Photo Credit: © Stephen Fourie
Photo Credit: © Stephen Fourie
Photo Credit: © Al Stuart
Photo Credit: © Joe Armitage c/o BoneShaker Pictures
Photo Credit: © MHP Studios
Roger Naber's 35 Year Anniversary as a music promoter is considered
quite a milestone for what began simply as a passion for American Blues Music.
In Kansas City, Roger is mostly known as the co-owner of the Grand Emporium live
music venue from 1985-2004. During his 20 year run as booking proprietor, he
featured live music 6-7 nights a week at the well established venue. 
Blues giants such as John Lee Hooker, Buddy Guy, Bobby
"Blue" Bland, Koko Taylor, Stevie Ray Vaughan and Robert Cray performed, plus
the newer generation, Derek Trucks, Susan Tedeschi, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Jonny
Lang and Joe Bonamassa. Jazz, reggae and rock musicians such as Harry Connick
Jr., Wynton Marsalis, The Neville Brothers, Chick Corea, Jimmy Cliff, Dave
Mathews, Wilco, Flaming Lips, and The Wallflowers also had their turn at the
midtown venue. The Grand Emporium twice received the Keeping The Blues Alive
Award as "Best Blues Nightclub." The Grand Emporium musician and poster archives
can still be seen at the UMKC Marr Sound Archives, UMKC Miller Nichols LIbrary,
5100 Rockhill Road, Kansas City, MO 64110 or online at http://library.umkc.edu/spec-col-collections/grand-emporium
“Where Blues Crosses Over”
