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Blues From the Top Festival 2025
by Geoff Anderson
Blues From the Top Festival Winter Park, COJune 27-29, 2025 The Town of Winter Park and Grand County have been hosting this summer blues festival for 23 years now. During that time, the festival has grown from a small start-up operation in a field to a three-day festival with national acts and big-name headliners, all presented in an outdoor amphitheater with a grassy bowl pointed toward a state-of-the-art outdoor stage. Each year the festivities ...
Continue ReadingJoanne Shaw Taylor: Heavy Soul
by Doug Collette
Since guitarist/vocalist/songwriter Joanne Shaw Taylor effectively recapitulated her roots on Blues From the Heart Live (Keeping The Blues Alive, 2022) she has earnestly endeavored to expand her style. In no short order later that same year, a more pop-oriented and highly-polished studio outing arrived in the form of Nobody's Fool (Keeping The Blues Alive, 2022), thereby setting the stage for the Brit's second outing with producer Kevin Shirley, who also oversaw Wild (Axehouse, 2016). The high-fashion poses of ...
Continue ReadingJoanne Shaw Taylor At The Flynn Center For The Performing Arts
by Doug Collette
Joanne Shaw Taylor Flynn Center for the Performing Arts Burlington, Vermont November 16, 2023 Around the mid-point of Joanne Shaw Taylor's near two-hour single set on the main stage of the Flynn Center, she and her hirsute band of musicianly brothers spent almost ten minutes working up a head of steam that, upon its rousing conclusion, brought most of the select attendees to their feet in ovation. It was a remarkable juncture in ...
Continue ReadingJoanne Shaw Taylor: Blues From The Heart Live
by Doug Collette
Joanne Shaw Taylor Blues From the Heart Live KTBA Records 2022 The title of Joanne Shaw Taylor's Blues From The Heart Live is no more redundant than the one assigned to her last studio release. On The Blues Album (KTBA Records, 2021), the British blueswoman revealed the roots and influences of her previous works that consist mostly of original material, and in doing so, she dramatically elevated the authenticity of her modern take on ...
Continue ReadingJoanne Shaw Taylor: Reckless Heart
by Doug Collette
In marked contrast to Joanne Shaw Taylor's somewhat constrained approach on Wild (Silvertone/Sony, 2018), this 'girl with the big voice from the Black Country' of Britain wastes no time on the aptly-titled Restless Heart. The hell-bent-for-leather abandon with which she leads “In The Mood" lives up to its suggestive title, and packs all the more punch because she and her accompanying musicians play with the unity of a genuine band, not just an ad-hoc group of sessioneers. The ...
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