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In 2021, Connor released the No. 1 blues album 4801 South Indiana Avenue, via Joe Bonamassa's Keeping the Blues Alive Records. While on tour in 2022, Connor performed live at Kingston Mines, a blues club. In 2023, Connor was nominated for a Blues Music Award in the instrumentalist category, for guitar. Discography Albums
Mar 9, 2021 · The release of 4801 South Indiana Avenue marks guitarist and singer Joanna Connor’s 14th album, but perhaps none have arrived with such fanfare as this Joe Bonamassa-produced blast of raw, powerful blues numbers.
Jul 5, 2023 · After playing in Deborah Coleman‘s bands for I Can’t Lose and Where Blue Begins, Connor left Blind Pig and signed to small indie label M.C. Records in 2002. Her debut, The Joanna Connor Band, found Connor expanding her sound to reflect her many musical interests that included funk, jazz, and soul.
Oct 22, 2020 · Chicago-based Joanna Connor, slide guitar virtuoso, singer-songwriter is a fierce musician known as the Queen of Blues/Rock Guitar. With 13 albums to her name, her most recent, Rise, (2019) was released on M.C. Records to critical acclaim.
Nov 21, 2019 · Joanna Connor is known as the Queen of Blues/Rock guitar, an extraordinary guitar player, singer-songwriter who many discovered when her video of her playing scorching slide guitar went viral in 2014. Debuting at the Chicago club, Kingston Mines in the ’80s, Connor then shared stages with James Cotton, Junior Wells, Buddy Guy and A ...
May 25, 2021 · 40 years into her career, Joanna Connor’s new album 4801 South Indiana Avenue is her first to hit #1 on the Billboard Blues chart. “I was, like, wow, it only took 40 years,” Connor laughs.
Feb 12, 2021 · But still, having moved from New York to Chicago in her early twenties to immerse herself in the blues, sharing the stage with some of the biggest names in the business, Connor was undoubtedly amongst the early female pioneers in the predominantly male preserve that was blues lead guitar in the 1980s.
