Joanne Shaw Taylor leans into hard truths on new single Tired Of Being Right
Joanne Shaw Taylor has released Tired Of Being Right, a new single from her forthcoming album, The Trouble With Love, due on 23 October via Journeyman Records.
Arriving alongside an official video, the track is one of Taylor’s more restrained recent releases, opening in a delicate haze before unfurling into a slow-burning blues-rock confession. Where some of the earlier album previews pushed bigger hooks and guest turns to the front, this one cuts deeper by holding its nerve.
A slow-burning reckoning
Tired Of Being Right centres on the point where hope finally gives way to acceptance. Taylor frames it as the exhaustion of recognising that love cannot change someone determined to stay the same, and the song’s key line, “I’m tired of being right about you being wrong”, lands with a quiet sting rather than a dramatic blowout.
“A very personal song for me,” Taylor says. “A song about always holding out hope that the one you love might finally step up, but sadly, sometimes you have to give yourself clarity and permission to leave. Sometimes people will never change, no matter how long you invest in them.”
The video follows a couple locked in the same painful push and pull, mirroring the song’s mix of attachment, disappointment, and final acceptance with performance footage threaded through the narrative.
The album taking shape
Tired of Being Right is the latest preview of The Trouble With Love, produced by Kevin Shirley. The record’s advance tracks have already sketched out a wide emotional range, from the title track with Joe Bonamassa to What Good Is My Love? featuring Orianthi, alongside Hell Or High Water and This Is Who I Am.
The full track listing for the album runs as follows:
- The Trouble With Love feat. Joe Bonamassa
- Hell Or High Water
- This Is Who I Am
- Tired Of Being Right
- Bad Boy
- What Good Is My Love? feat. Orianthi
- The Girl That You Loved Before
- Never Gonna Please ‘Em All
- You And Me (Rachel’s Song)
- Death Wish
Stream “Tired Of Being Right” on all platforms Pre-order The Trouble With Love
More US dates lined up for 2026
The single lands in the middle of another packed stretch on the road. Taylor’s current US run continues through the summer before a newly announced autumn headline tour begins in Albuquerque on 28 October. Bywater Call will join the first leg, with Robert Jon & The Wreck taking over from Salt Lake City onwards. Tickets are on sale now.
Her 2026 dates are listed below:
- June 27 – San Jose, CA – San Jose Fountain Blues & Brews Festival
- July 8 – Old Saybrook, CT – The Kate
- July 9 – Newport, RI – The JPT Film & Event Center
- July 11 – Honesdale, PA – Wildflower Concert Series
- July 12 – Kingston, NY – Assembly – Kingston
- July 22 – Milwaukee, WI – The Argo
- July 24 – Prairie du Chien, WI – Prairie Dog Blues Festival
- July 25 – Fargo, ND – Fargo Blues Festival
- July 26 – Omaha, NE – Slowdown
- July 30 – Minneapolis, MN – The Parkway Theater
- July 31 – Sioux Falls, SD – Levitt Shell Sioux Falls*
- August 2 – Bremerton, WA – Kitsap Rock & Blues Festival
- August 14 – Portland, ME – Aura
- August 15 – Salisbury, MA – Blue Ocean Music Hall
- August 16 – Laconia, NH – Colonial Theatre
- August 19 – Lexington, MA – Cary Hall
- August 20 – Norfolk, CT – Infinity Music Hall Norfolk
- August 21 – Buffalo, NY – Electric City
- August 22 – Interlochen, MI – Interlochen Center for the Arts
- September 10 – Paw Paw, MI – Warner Vineyards
- September 11 – Dayton, OH – Levitt Pavilion Dayton*
- September 12 – Louisville, KY – Mercury Ballroom
* Free show
- October 28 – Albuquerque, NM – KiMo Theatre *
- October 29 – Flagstaff, AZ – Orpheum Theater *
- October 30 – Phoenix, AZ – Celebrity Theatre *
- November 1 – Tucson, AZ – Rialto Theatre *
- November 3 – Grand Junction, CO – Mesa Theater *
- November 5 – Colorado Springs, CO – Phil Long Music Hall *
- November 7 – Boulder, CO – Boulder Theater *
- November 9 – Salt Lake City, UT – The State Room **
- November 10 – Boise, ID – The Egyptian Theatre **
- November 12 – Spokane, WA – Knitting Factory **
- November 13 – Tacoma, WA – Rialto Theater **
- November 15 – Portland, OR – Aladdin Theater **
- November 17 – Grass Valley, CA – The Center for the Arts **
- November 19 – Napa, CA – Uptown Theatre Napa **
- November 20 – Bakersfield, CA – World Records **
- November 21 – Monterey, CA – Golden State Theatre **
* with Bywater Call
** with Robert Jon & The Wreck
