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    Jan 11, 2022 4 minutes
    BY JOE BOSSO

    BRITISH BLUES GUITARIST Joanne Shaw Taylor’s new record is called The Blues Album (KTBA Records), which might cause her fans to scratch their heads a bit: Weren’t her seven previous releases blues albums? “They were, but in a way they were not,” Taylor says. “When I think of the blues, I think of Howlin’ Wolf and Muddy Waters, and my own music has strayed a bit from that kind of thing, especially songs that I write. So when I decided to do a covers album, I went for things that were more traditional, and the album title just seemed appropriate.”

    Taylor’s choices for covers might be more in the straight-up blues lane, but she didn’t opt for tried-and-true selections. The

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