Joan Armatrading

- Sue Foley

I never realized that you were such a great guitar player.

I think a lot of people don’t even realize that I play guitar. When they hear guitar on my records, they just assume it’s somebody else. When I did What’s Inside [1995], there was a really bluesy song with a great guitar solo. The record company did a focus group where they asked, “Who is playing the guitar?” The group mentioned just about every guitarist you could think of. Only one person said, “Joan.”