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Joanne Shaw Taylor
Joanne Shaw Taylor was born in February 1985 in Wednesbury, a town in the
Sandwell metropolitan district of the West Midlands (England). Growing up in the
Birmingham area, she discovered the blues, which she listened to passionately,
distilled by the guitars of her masters and influences Stevie Ray Vaughan,
Albert Collins and Jimi Hendrix. Her progress on the instrument was so meteoric
that Dave Stewart, half of the synthpop duo Eurythmics, invited her to join his
supergroup D.U.P. on a European tour in 2002 (she was just 17). However, it
wasn't until 2009 that the young Englishw...
