Old Enough to Forget

Joan Armatrading is a name I've known for a long time, but I've never really heard anything by her. I've caught snippets here and there, but that's about it. Then, a while back, I was reading up on the original Joe Jackson band, and Gary Sanford, whose guitar work was so interwoven into those early albums, spent some time in the '80s playing guitar on a couple of her albums. Well, that was intriguing. Maybe I should keep an eye out for some of her stuff. So I did. I added her to my list. As fate would have it, I managed to score a really nice copy of her 1977 release Show Me Some Emotion. For me, the draw here was the production credit: Glyn Johns. It was recorded at the legendary Olympic Studios, and if nothing else, this would be a really good-sounding record. Joan released her debut album in 1972, and Show Me Some Emotion was her fourth album and the second to be produced by Glyn Johns. Apparently, her 1976 album, simply titled Joan Armatrading , is considered es...