A thought on the limits of not updating your musical tastes

“We can’t just stay with the old. We need to acknowledge and still refer to and still play and be connected to older artists. But you can’t just do that because we’re all dying… Even the young artists, they’re dying as well.”
— Joan Armatrading

Joan Armatrading has been a force in the music world since the 1970s; amazingly, it’s been almost 50 years since her breakthrough, Love and Affection, which sounds so crisp, clear and affecting, it could have been made at any time since. She’s timeless.

And, evidently, quite wise. The comment above comes from an interview for a podcast last year.

Meanwhile, here’s a live performance (not the best recording quality, but her joy comes through all the same) of Show Some Emotion, one of my favourite Joan Armatrading songs: