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UNPLANNED DOWNTIME: 12th Oct 23:45
Joanne Shaw-Taylor 'Nobody's Fool' 2022
DavidR
Frets: 595
Just listened to this (for free via YouTube Music - my new best friend).
There's a variety here from JST. Those looking for the raunchy blues of White Sugar or even her last studio release, The Blues Album, made during Covid, will find less guitar generally and more singing and slower tracks. Not being cruel but think Adele meets Dusty Springfield for some of the tracks. There's a cover of Missionary Man which lacks the spark of Annie Lennox on the original. It's too slow imho. Missionary Man was not a ballad. OK, interpretation, but it didn't work for me at all. And don't be fooled, JST's "Won't Be Fooled Again" really isn't a version of the Who's "Won't Get Fooled Again". It features Joe Bonamassa but is/and so it's much more pedestrian.
Clearly JST is changing and evolving. She has a great voice and maybe she's exploring that in this album I think. Good on her.
Ooh, and an acoustic on the track "Fade Away". That's new isn't it? From the video on YouTube a Gibson Southern Jumbo I think. Sounds lovely. As does she on much of this album.
If you approach the album as not being by a brilliant English proponent of up-tempo electronic Blues, and if you don't miss her guitar playing (I did) then it's really quite good.
There's a variety here from JST. Those looking for the raunchy blues of White Sugar or even her last studio release, The Blues Album, made during Covid, will find less guitar generally and more singing and slower tracks. Not being cruel but think Adele meets Dusty Springfield for some of the tracks. There's a cover of Missionary Man which lacks the spark of Annie Lennox on the original. It's too slow imho. Missionary Man was not a ballad. OK, interpretation, but it didn't work for me at all. And don't be fooled, JST's "Won't Be Fooled Again" really isn't a version of the Who's "Won't Get Fooled Again". It features Joe Bonamassa but is/and so it's much more pedestrian.
Clearly JST is changing and evolving. She has a great voice and maybe she's exploring that in this album I think. Good on her.
Ooh, and an acoustic on the track "Fade Away". That's new isn't it? From the video on YouTube a Gibson Southern Jumbo I think. Sounds lovely. As does she on much of this album.
If you approach the album as not being by a brilliant English proponent of up-tempo electronic Blues, and if you don't miss her guitar playing (I did) then it's really quite good.
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I've quite often criticised modern blues based guitarists for not focusing enough on songs and vocals but here Jo has done that. I'll keep going back to it.
[ IIRC her dad used to be a regular on TDPRI so I wonder if he ever lurks on here]