The Hello there and welcome to another edition of soda jerker on song, this is Simon, here as always with Brian.

Today we'll be talking to an Ivan novello winning Grammy and Brit Award nominated singer-songwriter

and guitarist of over 40 years standing whose intimate style and unique blend of folk, pop,

rock, blues and jazz has won her sundry accolades, international acclaim and innumerable

devotees. In 2012 she released her 20th album Starlight and as we record this episode she's

currently partway through her first completely solo tour which will last

until the end of 2015. We are delighted to welcome the fantastic Joan Armour trading MBE to the show.

40 years standing, eh?

The likes will be tired.

I think that's the standard you can expect throughout folks.

Yeah, it's not going to get any better than that.

You know I realized the other day that the first time I ever heard of Joan was in the Bino.

Really? Okay.

For anyone overseas, the Bino was a very popular children's comic here in the UK.

It's still going strong I think actually.

And I was an avid reader as a kid and they brought out a special book for the 50th anniversary.

This is about 25 years ago.

And my elder sister got it for me and still have it somewhere.

And in there was a section about famous people who appeared in the comic

over the years and there was Joan.

Wow.

Yeah, she popped up in an installment of Tom Dick and Sally in the early 80s.

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