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Joan Armatrading: Joan Armatrading (A&M)*****

Phil Sutcliffe, Sounds, 31 July 1976

THE RECORD deck grunts and clicks, the turntable sidles to a halt and polysyllabic analysis should be flowing from the critic's pen but I'd just like to hug Joan Armatrading. If she were a man I'd still like to hug her. If I were a woman I'd still like to hug her.

Total word count of piece: 636


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