Thursday, January 9, 2025

Joan Armatrading - BBC Sessions, Volume 4: In Concert, Colston Hall, Bristol, Britain, 4-20-2010

Normally, I'm reluctant to post an album from a musical act that takes place well after their commercial and/or critical prime. For Joan Armatrading, that was mainly the 1970s and 80s. So I wasn't sure if I'd post this one. Then I listened to it. I was pleasantly surprised. 

I had no idea she rocked this much! I tend to think of Armatrading more of a singer-songwriter folkie type. But for this concert, she was in full rocking mode, with power chords and guitar solos and so on, more so than on the BBC concerts I'd posted from her. There were only a couple of songs done in more of an acoustic style. The song selection is very good too. This might be my favorite out of her BBC concerts.

Everything here is officially unreleased. The sound quality is excellent, so I didn't have to make any fixes.

This album is 57 minutes long. 

UPDATE: On March 3, 1981, I updated the mp3 download file. The music is the same, but I changed the album title, after finding a 1977 BBC concert by her that I'd missed.

01 Show Some Emotion (Joan Armatrading)
02 talk (Joan Armatrading)
03 All the Way from America (Joan Armatrading)
04 Into the Blues (Joan Armatrading)
05 Love and Affection (Joan Armatrading)
06 My Baby's Gone (Joan Armatrading)
07 talk (Joan Armatrading)
08 This Charming Life (Joan Armatrading)
09 The Weakness in Me (Joan Armatrading)
10 talk (Joan Armatrading)
11 Best Dress On (Joan Armatrading)
12 Call Me Names (Joan Armatrading)
13 Me Myself I (Joan Armatrading)
14 Willow (Joan Armatrading)
15 Drop the Pilot (Joan Armatrading)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/W5k7DsmB

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/NuIoglTERbdoziB/file

The cover photo is from a concert at Royal Albert Hall, in London, on April 13, 2008.

4 comments:

  1. Prior to this, she had actually done six BBC Concerts: 1976, 1977, 1982, 1985, 1991 and 1993.

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    1. Yeah, I'm aware I missed some. I don't necessarily post everything I can find from the BBC. For instance, Paul Weller has done so many BBC concerts that I'm only posting about half of them. In this case, I feel most of those concerts aren't that different, so I just picked the best ones. But if you feel I've missed something great, please let me know.

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  2. Saw Joan 3 times in the mid 80s to early 90s. She definitely can rock. Her songs are amazing and she 's a real sweetie too. (Met her after one show)

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