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Critically acclaimed British guitarist and singer songwriter, Joanne Shaw Taylor, universally hailed
as the UK’s premiere blues rock guitarist, is announcing the release of her sixth studio full-length
record The Blues Album on Friday September 17, 2021. Today she also shares a new single, Let Me
Down Easy along with a companion music video.
The album will be released via Joe Bonamassa’s independent blues label KTBA Records. It was
produced and recorded by Joe Bonamassa and Josh Smith at Ocean Way Studios in Nashville, Tennessee.
The hotly tipped 11-track album features Joanne’s personalised covers of eleven rare blues classics
originally recorded by Albert King, Peter Green, Little Richard, Magic Sam, Aretha Franklin, Little
Milton, and many more.
The Blues Album, the follow up to 2019’s critically acclaimed album Reckless Heart, features Josh
Smith (guitar), Reese Wynans (keyboards), Greg Morrow (drums), Steve Mackey (bass), Steve Patrick
(trumpet), Mark Douthit (sax), Barry Green (trombone). Joe Bonamassa plays guitar and sings on the
track Don’t Go Away Mad.
Mike Farris also joins as a special guest on I Don’t Know What You’ve Got.
