Joanne Shaw Taylor’s just made the claim that she’s ‘Tired Of Being Right‘. Quite how so, you’ll need to hear on her latest single out now via JWith a lullaby’s sensitivity and the merest hint of gospel, lean biting guitar notes cut in to accentuate Joanne Shaw Taylor’s tale of a fragmenting relationship on her new single ‘Tired Of Being Right’.
The track is the latest to be taken from her forthcoming album The Trouble With Love, which finds the British blues rock artist diving headfirst into the beautiful chaos of the human heart. Blending blues, rock and soul-soaked pop, the album explores love in its many forms — reckless and sweeping, quiet and steadying, the love that breaks you open and the love that puts you back together.
“Sometimes you have to give yourself clarity and permission to leave,” Taylor has said of the song. “Sometimes people will never change no matter how long you invest in them.”
Those themes come to life in the video, where Taylor’s performance is cut between scenes of a couple trapped in a relationship that mirrors the song’s push and pull between love, disappointment and acceptance, until both arrive at the same difficult conclusion reflected in the lyrics.
The single follows a run of other tracks slipped out ahead of the album. These include the fiery title track ‘The Trouble With Love’, featuring Joe Bonamassa, capturing the push and pull of love in all its intensity; ‘What Good Is My Love?’, featuring Orianthi, exploring the pain of unreciprocated love; and ‘Hell Or High Water’, with its defiant blues-gospel charge toward resilience and self-belief.
More recently, ‘This Is Who I Am’ arrived as a soul-baring reinterpretation of Celeste’s song about acceptance, self-love and being seen clearly. The original was hand-picked for the spy thriller series The Day Of The Jackal.
“Kevin brought this cover of Celeste’s beautiful song to the table,” the guitarist explained. “It’s such a beautifully written track, for me about acceptance and self-love. I hope we’ve done it justice.”
Piano and guitar strike a dark entry point for ‘This Is Who I Am’, Taylor covering Celeste Waite’s song with a torrid blues makeover where a mighty, weighted guitar solo backed by orchestration takes the song towards its inevitable conclusion. Place it somewhere alongside Jeff Buckley’s interpretation of ‘Lilac Wine’, with Mick Ronson’s version of ‘Slaughter On 10th Avenue’ tagged on at the end.
Due out on 23rd October, The Trouble With Love runs as follows: ‘The Trouble With Love’ (featuring Joe Bonamassa), ‘Hell Or High Water’, ‘This Is Who I Am’, ‘Tired Of Being Right’, ‘Bad Boy’, ‘What Good Is My Love?’ (featuring Orianthi), ‘The Girl That You Loved Before’, ‘Never Gonna Please ‘Em All’, ‘You And Me (Rachel’s Song)’ and ‘Death Wish’. It is available on CD, as a 180-gram dusty rose LP and digitally.
