“Joan Armatrading” by Joan Armatrading - album review
features in: Album Chart of 1976 ● Album Chart of the Decade: 1970s ● 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die ![]() |

Breakthrough LP from the 25-year-old singer-songwriter-guitarist, with experienced producer Glyn Johns (Steve Miller, The Who, The Stones) enriching the whole with applomb, enlisting members of Fairport Convention and the Faces to season pop-rock flavours various, from folk to jazz to reggae. The album gave Joan her first UK hit (#12), with the classic lead single, “Love And Affection”, hitting #10 in the UK Pop Charts, striking a blow for quality songwriting. Inexplicably, the follow up single “Down To Zero” failed to chart. That's the fickle public for you. Album lovers know best I think.
The Jukebox Rebel
28–Feb–2016
Tracklist |
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A2 | [04:04] ![]() |
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B5 | [05:43] ![]() |