Continuing my look at the albums of 1976…

My favorite thing about the Decades series is when I get to fill in a glaring blind spot.

I’ve heard the name Joan Armatrading before, but I couldn’t have told you her nationality, her musical style, or her period of peak popularity. Gun to my head, I would have predicted she was an American folk artist in the Joni Mitchell vein, probably big in the 60s and early 70s.

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