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Joan Armatrading: Show Some Emotion

Phil Sutcliffe, Sounds, 17 September 1977

AAAAAH, JOAN, Shall I compare thee to a summer rose? Not just now, but how about 'The Summertime Blues'? At least Eddie Cochran is something new in the critic's implacable pursuit of resemblances between our lady and Join Mitchell, Van Morrison etc.

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