Catching up with Joan Armatrading (ArmatradingJoan) ahead of today's ticketed livestream (3 p.m. ET) in support of 'Consequences':
Caribbean-born British singer-songwriter Joan Armatrading has achieved many incredible things in her nearly five-decade career. So far, she has: won an Ivor Novello Award; been nominated for two Brits and three Grammys; received honorary degrees from six prestigious universities; and gotten two top-shelf government appointments, the MBE and a following CBE .
Armatrading, at a youthful 70, speaks with a casual confidence befitting of her seasoned, globe-trotting, 19 album-encompassing years. The self-assurance also has deeper roots, in a DIY tradition innocently begun back in the ‘70s, when she played almost every instrument on, first, all of her demos, then later on all of her studio cuts, as well. Which wasn’t easy in the beginning, she sighs.
Has the composer ever awakened in the middle of the night and groggily captured a Bumpkin song idea, a la Jerry Seinfeld and the indecipherable “Flaming globes of Sigmund” midnight note he wrote to himself? She laughs, but pauses to seriously think about it. Only once, she swears, with 2018’s “The Messenger .” “That doesn’t happen often, but with ‘The Messenger,’ that’s exactly how it worked,” she recollects.
Armatrading’—who just got another 2020 Lifetime Achievement Award from Women of the Year—has always been civic-minded and socially conscious. “I’ve had both my jabs,” she notes of getting her recent U.K. vaccination shots. And she admits that some of her new material—“Better Life” and the album title track, for starters—are simply personal truths she’s sharing, logical guidelines on how to be a better post-Covid human being.
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