Is Joanne the new Davy?

Having just tour managed Joanne, I can say she is definitely getting the attention she has earned and deserves. Press coverage is excellent and she has more to come. I first saw Joanne when she just 14 putting the fear of god into the main act she was supporting. She has definitely walked the walk and earned her place. She has so much more to offer, very talented song writer.
Listen out for the Paul Jones BBC session going out on the 13th Dec, it was recorded last week and it sounded excellent before going into mixing.

Hmm, its an interesting question Musiclova. There have been some differences, Davy was pretty unknown when he first headed stateside, while Joanne has kept her UK profile fairly high after her rise to fame here which only really began at the start of last year. So Joanne has done great to become better knwon both in the USA and in the UK and artciles like the Blues Revue are testimony to that. Yet without being in the USA I'm not quite sure how large her profile is. Davy and BDS benefited from some high profile support slots and I've not been aware of JST having the same opportunities just yet.
One thing that has been very impressie about Joanne's rise is that it has been done through Ruf Records. Many have felt they've not ben as successsful as they could have been with signed artists in the past.
Great credit to both Joanne and Davy, they've used the opportunities given to them with plenty of hard work and a large degree of talent.

The main point that I'd emphasis though is that while much of the marketing is that British blues is back, as per the advert in Blues Revue that featured Joanne and Oli, or statements such as Back Door Slam being the best British blues band since Fleetwood Mac are incorrect, as there has been plenty of great British acts recording over the last 10-15 years. These include The Hoax, Aynsley Lister, The Nimmo Brothers, Ian Parker, Ian Siegal, Matt Schofield, Danny Bryant etc. Many have not been able to follow the same paths to success stateside (yet), however each also has much to offer and should not be overlooked in any analysis.

Agreed, you really can't compare playing styles at all with these two and I didn't make that clear in my first post. I was mostly talking about the buzz behind her (well deserved).

I must admit I didn't hear about D. K. until he did that CBS morning show and by then the machine had been working very hard and very well for him. DK has had some amazing high profile gigs that JST or many of the other excellent English or American slingers haven't gotten. (I'm a huge Hoax and Matt Schofield fan).

I'm very curious to find out what DK and his management are doing/planning? Davy just doesn't seem like a side man and I think we all know what SRV did when it came down to being a Bowie sideman...the rest was history for SRV.

I hope DK gets back to doing his own thing, he's a rare talent. Never the less, I will support both of these artist as well as many others. After all they need us and we need them:)

It can always be an odd thing that "makes a band" big. It seems like some times there is no rhyme or reason. I watched Conan last night and a band named "Deerhunter" was on. WTF was that?

We need a huge star in the blues world and it ain't Cyndi Lauper to get the word out again. If country can do it then I believe the blues can do it. Then again, do we really want what country has turned into these days for the blues world?