BLUES POWER

Joanne Shaw Taylor might spend a lot of time Stateside these days but, as we Zoom with her from Detroit, it’s clear the guitarist hasn’t lost a drop of her Midlands accent. Like many of us, she spent plenty of lockdown in front of the TV (while also learning to cook), but also used her time out to put together her latest record, a collection of blues covers simply titled The Blues Album.

“I consider myself a blues guitarist but I don’t think any of my albums have been particularly bluesy,” says Taylor, her long blonde hair flipped to one side, a quirky caricature of Albert King in the background. “I didn’t think I could write blues songs so it was something I’d always wanted to do but felt like