British singer/guitarist Joanne Shaw Taylor was born far from where the blues began, but from her start in the late ‘00s, she's sounded like she grew up with both feet firmly planted in the music. Filtering her roots through a forward-looking feel, she digs down deep and draws blood on a slow blues like "Blackest Day", extracting every ounce of passion with a sensual vocal and stinging solo. Taylor channels the raw, raucous energy of Stevie Ray Vaughan with her down-and-dirty axe work on songs like "White Sugar", inhabiting a place the best blues players call home and hanging her own shingle on the door.