Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
When the annals of 21st Century Blues are written there will be names that are assured to note only feature heavily within the factually written pages but will be seen as true luminaries and icons of the genre; those that arguably saved the music from dying a death that had been telegraphed since the mid-1980s.
Chiefly amongst them will be the undoubted Queen of British Blues, one who has herself been influenced and aided by the likes of Joe Bonamassa, but has forged her own indomitable style and taken all in her path from the Midland’s heartlands of her birth to the wilds of America and back, the creator of all that is Black & Gold, Joanne Shaw Taylor.