Joanne Shaw Taylor - Heavy Soul

Album: Heavy Soul
Size: 101,7 MB
Time: 43:59
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2024
Styles: Blues/Rock/Roots
Art: Front

1. Sweet 'Lil Lies (5:17)
2. All The Way From America (4:19)
3. Black Magic (4:25)
4. Drowning In A Sea Of Love (4:34)
5. A Good Goodbye (4:10)
6. Heavy Soul (5:08)
7. Wild Love (4:23)
8. Someone Like You (4:51)
9. Devil In Me (3:01)
10. Change Of Heart (3:44)

Joanne Shaw Taylor's soulful vocals and lead guitar style drew praise from Annie Lennox and Stevie Wonder at the outset of her career, but she's earned her stripes the old-school way, putting in the hard yards on the road and in the studio. That said, there's nothing workmanlike about her song-focused approach to the blues, invigorated on Heavy Soul by the self-imposed challenge of attempting to blend the soul-pop direction of Nobody's Fool (2022) with her blues roots.

Such an experiment could miss both targets, but Shaw Taylor achieves a seamless fusion that's a natural fit for her smoky vocal tone and stinging, articulate lead guitar lines, shading the blues-informed chord sequences of 10 filler-free songs with Motown-style beats (Drowning In A Sea Of Love) and gospel backing singers (Sweet 'Lil Lies, Wild Love). Heavy Soul strikes a winning balance between maturity and raw, gut-punch blues. /Rich Davenport, Classic Rock

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