The Weakness in Me: The Selected Lyrics of Joan Armatrading

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Since the release of her debut album Whatever’s For Us in 1972, Joan Armatrading has, across a fifty-year career, traversed styles and genres to create a monumental body of work. In 2020 she received the Ivors Academy Fellowship Award, their highest accolade, and in 2021 was awarded an AIM Award for her contribution to music.

While she was somewhat less prolific in the ‘90s than she had been up to that point, the new millennium constituted a rebirth of sorts for Armatrading. Strong rhythmic acoustic guitar playing and melodic electric solos help to make her the consummate musician. Online since 2010 it is one of the fastest-growing and most respected music-related publications on the net. She is a Trustee of the Princes’ Trust, which she has supported since 1982, and holds six honorary degrees, doctorates, or fellowships.

He has interviewed Patti Smith, Neneh Cherry, Ani DiFranco, Ann Wilson, Marianne Faithfull, Chrissie Hynde, Cyndi Lauper, Sophie B. Since the release of her debut album Whatever’s For Us in 1972, Joan Armatrading has traversed styles and genres to create a monumental body of work. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.

With her poignant, piercing lyrics, embodied in the indelible song “The Weakness In Me,” she opened a sonic world of emotional intelligence and empathy.Highlights include the title track, the single “Already There,” the catchy “Better Life” (which has a hint of reggae) and the closing track, “To Anyone Who Will Listen. So it’s not that women aren’t there; it’s just that the way of the world is to highlight the men’s achievements. It’s almost a perfect bedfellow for ‘love and affection’, proving that even at seventy years of age she is still being handed down couplets of silken beauty from the pan gods of pop.