01	Nothin' But The Blues						04:03
	02	My Papa						04:09
	03	You Don't Love Me						04:42
	04	Got To Have You						03:40
	05	Slide On In						05:11
	06	My Man						02:55
	07	Free Free Woman						04:28
	08	Money Blues						04:03
	09	It's Not The Rock						03:38
	10	At The Club						03:15
	11	Pea Vine Blues						04:05

Slidetime
Date of Release May 19, 1998
Styles Modern Electric Blues, Blues-Rock

Joanna Connor's fourth album for Blind Pig finds her still working solidly in blues-rock territory with plenty of her blistering slide guitar work well to the fore. onnor penned all 11 of the tunes here, co-writing one of them with guitarist Ron Johnson and the other with drummer Boyd Martin; her songwriting chops show considerable added depth and improvement on this go round. Still keeping her sound in the time-honored road-band format of two guitars, bass and drums. She brings aboard background vocals on "Slide It In," "Got To Have You" and "Pea Vine Blues," the latter also featuring some nice fingerpicked guitar from Ron Johnson. Connors' guitar positively blisters on "My Man," "Free Free Woman" and others, making this one of her strongest outings. - Cub Koda

1. Nothin' But the Blues (Connor) - 3:58
2. My Papa (Connor) - 4:05
3. You Don't Love Me (Connor) - 4:36
4. Got to Have You (Connor) - 3:40
5. Slide on In (Connor) - 5:05
6. My Man (Connor) - 2:46
7. Free Free Woman (Connor) - 4:21
8. Money Blues (Connor) - 4:05
9. It's Not the Rock (Connor/Martin) - 3:32
10. At the Club (Connor) - 3:09
11. Peavine Blues (Connor/Johnson) - 4:11

Joanna Connor - Guitar, Arranger, Guitar (Rhythm), Vocals, Producer, Slide Guitar
Edward Chmelewski - Executive Producer
Jerry del Giudice - Executive Producer
Michael Freeman - Mixing
Ron Johnson - Guitar, Arranger
Anthony Palmer - Guitar
Boyd Martin - Drums
Al Brandtner - Artwork, Design
Andrea Variames - Vocals (bckgr)

1998 CD Blind Pig 5047



Joanna Connor
Born Aug 31, 1962 in Brooklyn, NY
Styles Blues-Rock, Modern Electric Blues

by Richard Skelly

What sets Joanna Connor apart from the rest of the pack of guitar-playing female blues singers is her skill on the instrument. Even though Connor has become an accomplished singer over time, her first love was guitar playing, and it shows in her live shows and on her recordings.
Brooklyn-born, Massachusetts-raised Joanna Connor was drawn to the Chicago blues scene like a bee to a half-full soda can. Connor, a fiery guitarist raised in the 1970s - when rock & roll was all over the mass media - just wanted to play blues. She was born August 31, 1962, in Brooklyn, N.Y., and raised by her mother in Worcester, MA. She benefitted from her mother's huge collection of blues and jazz recordings, and a young Connor was taken to see people like Taj Mahal, Bonnie Raitt, Ry Cooder and Buddy Guy in concert.

Connor got her first guitar at age seven. When she was 16, she began singing in Worcester-area bands, and when she was 22, she moved to Chicago. Soon after her arrival in 1984, she began sitting in with Chicago regulars like James Cotton, Junior Wells, Buddy Guy and A.C. Reed. She hooked up with Johnny Littlejohn's group for a short time before being asked by Dion Payton to join his 43rd Street Blues Band. She performed with Payton at the 1987 Chicago Blues Festival. Later that year, she was ready to put her own band together.

Her 1989 debut for the Blind Pig label, Believe It!, got her out of Chicago clubs and into clubs and festivals around the U.S., Canada and Europe. Her other albums include 1992's Fight for Blind Pig (the title track a Luther Allison tune), Living on the Road (1993) and Rock and Roll Gypsy (1995), the latter two for the Ruf Records label. Slidetime on Blind Pig followed in 1998 and Nothing But the Blues, a live recording of a 1999 show in Germany, appeared on the German Inakustik label in 2001. Connor left Blind Pig and signed to small indie label M.C. in 2002. Her first release for her new label, The Joanna Connor Band, finds Connor expanding her sound a bit in an attempt to reach a more mainstream audience.

Connor has blossomed into a gifted blues songwriter. Her songwriting talents, strongly influenced by greats like Luther Allison, will insure that she stays in the blues spotlight for years to come.



1989 Believe It! Blind Pig
1992 Fight Blind Pig
1993 Living on the Road Inak
1995 Rock & Roll Gypsy Ruf
1996 Big Girl Blues Ruf
1998 Slidetime Blind Pig
2001 Nothing but the Blues [live] Inakustik
2002 The Joanna Connor Band M.C.