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Intervention's long delayed release of Joan Armatrading's eponymously titled third album is now set to ship this May. It's now available for pre-order on the Intervention Records website.

First released in 1975 on A&M (SP-4588), the Glyn John produced and engineered album was her "breakout" record after the first two failed to register with the buying public. It features "Down to Zero", "Somebody Who Loves You", "Love and Affection" and other songs of loss and vulnerability. The production and sound are both superb.

The reissue was cut using a 1/2" from analog safety copy tape by Kevin Gray at Cohearent Audio, plated and pressed at RTI and features a film-laminated Stoughton Press "Tip-on" jacket. It's audiophile demo-disc quality (and has been for more than 40 years). Maybe now, finally you'll hear it in the audio show halls and rooms!

Read the interview I conducted with Joan here, first published on musicangle.com, which became AnalogPlanet.com.