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Articles by Joan Armatrading
Beat goes on: All-star King Crimson offshoot band on tour with three former Frank Zappa band members
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... How many varied musical hats has Adrian Belew worn? His many credits include high-profile collaborations with King Crimson, David Bowie, Herbie Hancock, Talking Heads, Paul Simon, Cyndi Lauper, Joe Cocker, Laurie Anderson, Nine Inch Nails, Béla Fleck & The Flecktones, Joan Armatrading and former San Diegan Frank Zappa.
Listen: The Mountain Stage Song Of The Week Is By Joan Armatrading, Recorded In 2003
West Virginia Public Broadcasting | By Adam Harris Published February 17, 2022 at 11:40 AM EST Brian Blauser / Mountain Stage Joan Armatrading was touring in support of her album "In These Times" when she appeared on Mountain Stage in 2003. Listen starting Feb. 18 to hear this episode on our NPR Music affiliates.
Joan Armatrading, Interview with GRAMMY-nominated Songwriter
“I’m very often writing about love and emotions and how people connect to each other,” says Joan Armatrading. Indeed, the acclaimed singer-songwriter is known for exploring different dimensions of love while giving listeners new language to convey their most intimate thoughts and feelings. Her boundless gift for articulating the joy and complexities of relationships once again informs her latest set, Consequences (2021).
Joan Armatrading reflects on Rory Gallagher's remarkable legacy
Joan Armatrading shares her reflections on Rory Gallagher, as part of our special 25th anniversary tribute to the legendary Irish guitarist. As a guitarist, I'm always drawn to other guitarists – and because I play rhythm and lead guitar, I'm also drawn to guitarists who do the same. I first heard about Rory Gallagher in the late '70s. There are many things I liked about him, but what I liked the most was that he was a musician who was interested in being the best player he could be.
Me Myself, I by Joan Armatrading
10 Songs, 35 Minutes EDITORS’ NOTES By the late ‘70s, lots of veteran singer/songwriters were sticking their toes into New Wave waters with varying results. Joan Armatrading jumped head-first into the era’s shifting musical currents on Me Myself I (1980), an engaging fusion of folk-pop introspection and modern rock exuberance. Produced by Richard Gottehrer (of Blondie and Go-Go’s renown), the album bristles with muscular guitars, thumping basses and trashy organs.
PREVIEW: Virtuoso artist Joan Armatrading releases her latest single
Acclaimed singer-songwriter Joan Armatrading announces the release of her newest single and upcoming tour dates. MULTI AWARD winning singer-songwriter, Joan Armatrading has released her latest single Loving what you hate, on 4th June. The popular blues artist has also announced an upcoming UK tour, which will see her perform at thirty three locations across the UK, from 10th September. Armatrading describes the track’s intentions as a song to celebrate onself and eradicate insecurities.
Single-Minded And Direct Songs By Joan Armatrading
British guitarist and singer, Joan Armatrading, unburdens her heart in music with an authenticity like no one else. She'll play songs from her latest, "Not Too Far Away", in-studio.
Joan Armatrading
It’s hard to find a place in which Joan Armatrading fits. Early US promoters sold her as a soul artist because of her skin colour, journalists called her a folk singer because of her acoustic guitar and her voice’s jazzy, Joni lilt. Even before word got around that she was gay, songs such as Barefoot And Pregnant made her a feminist icon. But Armatrading has said of her Birmingham youth that she “didn’t grow up in a black community”, and she has no time for feminism or folk.
Graham Parker w/ Adam Ezra (Second Show Added by Popular Demand!) - 5/21
In the spring of 1975, Graham Parker, a 24-year-old petrol pump attendant from Surrey, England, began to drive up to London to meet like-minded musicians and get a backing band behind his songs, which he now considered to be stronger and more interesting than anything he was hearing on the radio.
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