When Dave Stewart of the Eurythmics first heard Joanne Shaw Taylor playing blues guitar he said it made the hairs on the back of his neck stand on end.
The then unknown Joanne Shaw Taylor was just 16 but her skills were so finely honed that the Eurythmics-frontman asked her to join his supergroup DUP to tour Europe in 2002. She was also offered a record contract but the label went bust.
Since then she has recorded her critically-acclaimed debut White Sugar, appeared in the film Deep Blues in Mississippi and played alongside artists including R.L Burnside and Jesse-Mae Hemphill.
Today Joanne has just returned from a sell-out Young Generation Blues tour and has a new album - Diamonds in the Dirt - produced by Jim Gaines who has worked with the likes of Santana.
It is an accomplished follow up to her debut and is full of burning guitar playing, soulful ballads and sizzling rock and blues.
She will perform tracks from the album at a gig at Sutton’s Boom Boom Club on Sunday with support from Stone Electric and Virgil McMahon will perform an acoustic set.
Her band includes the McMahon Brothers from Virgil and the Accelerators, who are also on the brink of exploding on to the scene in their own right.
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