Not only is Joanna an amazing guitarist but she wails to the back of house with the slightest of ease. Her music is gutsy and at times over the top, but it all comes from the heart. She’s a true blues chanteuse and takes her audience on a special journey every time she performs. An encounter with blues giant Lonnie Brooks at a club helped kicked off her amazing career in the blues. It’s obvious that she was weaned on different styles of music in her early years at the tender age of ten. Her first concert was Buddy Guy.

Rock and Blues Muse sat down with Joanna to ask her a few questions relating to her next album:

Q: I hear Joe Bonamassa is going to produce your next album. Can you tell me about it? It’s pretty exciting.

“It’s really exciting. It’s funny, one night my brother played bass with me because my bass player was out of town. One of his friends filmed part of something I was doing, and we put it on Twitter and it went crazy on Twitter. The next thing, Joe Bonamassa was tweeting about it on his page. So, I messaged him. He got in touch with me in like two days and we started to talk and we exchanged phone numbers.”

“He (Joe Bonamassa) works like crazy, talk about somebody on the road every day, practically. I picked up an extra gig on a Wednesday at the Kingston Mines, and Joe’s like, “I have Wednesday off, I’m going to come through.” He told me, “I would like to do record with you.” He came down, filmed a video of me and put it out there. He just came in for the hour and brought some people with him that are going to work on the project. We hung out for a bit on the set, on the break.”

“He loved (the show). I’m thinking, why of all the people in the world…and he said, “You have an intensity most musicians don’t have and that’s what I want to capture and put it out there.” He was really nice, and he says, “By the way, you have a really good voice. You always downplay it, we’re going to make a record with it all.”

Q: What’s coming up for you?

“Staying at home in Chicago, and the Joe Bonamassa cruise in February and then Intrepid Artists is getting our tour together, looks like we’ll be going to Europe a lot, which is fine with me. I love playing in Europe. We have Spain, Italy, Germany, Holland, Belgium, something in Russia. I know Intrepid is working hard—they just signed me three weeks ago.”

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