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Joan Armatrading: Into The Blues (429 Records)

Jeff Tamarkin, AllMusic.com, 2007

RECORDING Into The Blues, writes Joan Armatrading on the back sleeve of her first-ever blues album, "has given me so much pleasure," and that pleasure is evident in the grooves. But that doesn't make it a particularly good blues album or even one of the more notable entries in a discography that stretches back more than 30 years.

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