Setting out on the Black Country blues circuit of the late 90s, the teenage Joanne Shaw Taylor caught the ear of ex-Eurythmics man Dave Stewart, who mentored her through the industry’s shark-infested waters to 2009’s acclaimed debut album White Sugar.
Nine albums later this dry-witted road warrior has the mileage and the scars, but she still remembers the formative influences that saved her from the nine-to-five.
