British blues-rock guitarist JOANNE SHAW TAYLOR has announced her new studio album ‚The Trouble With Love‘, set for release on October 23, 2026 via Journeyman Records. The announcement is accompanied by a new single, ‚This Is Who I Am‘, a deeply personal reimagining of the Celeste song.JOANNE SHAW TAYLOR is set to release her highly anticipated new studio album ‚The Trouble With Love‘ on October 23, 2026, via Journeyman Records. Once again produced by legendary producer Kevin Shirley, the record finds the British blues-rock guitarist navigating the many faces of love — the intoxicating, the destructive, the healing, and the kind that forces honest self-reflection. The album will be available on CD, 180-gram LP in Dusty Rose colour, and digitally.
To mark the announcement, JOANNE SHAW TAYLOR has released a new single, ‚This Is Who I Am‘, a heartfelt reinterpretation of the song originally performed by Celeste, which found its way into the thriller series The Day of the Jackal. In TAYLOR’s hands, the track becomes something far more personal — a quiet manifesto on self-acceptance and vulnerability. Her warm, commanding voice carries the song with restrained control before a passionate guitar solo breaks the emotional tension wide open.
‚Kevin brought the song into the studio,‘ TAYLOR explains. ‚It’s beautifully written — for me it’s about acceptance and self-love. I hope we’ve done it justice.‘ The new single joins a series of previously released tracks that have each illuminated a different shade of the album: the title track featuring Joe Bonamassa, ‚What Good Is My Love?‘ with Orianthi, and the defiant blues-gospel energy of ‚Hell Or High Water‘.
Building on the critical acclaim of her celebrated predecessor ‚Black and Gold‘, ‚The Trouble With Love‘ promises to be JOANNE SHAW TAYLOR’s most direct, open, and stylistically ambitious record to date. TAYLOR will also be touring Germany in spring 2026, with dates in Schöppingen, Hannover, and Nuremberg.