The Weakness in Me: The Selected Lyrics of Joan Armatrading

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In 2007 Armatrading appeared in Episode 3 of the second series of Live from Abbey Road performing "Tall in the Saddle" from her 1976 self-titled album, and "Woman in Love" from the album Into The Blues. She also appeared on Later... with Jools Holland where she performed "Love and Affection", as well as "Woman in Love" and "My Baby's Gone" both from her 2007 Into The Blues album. [ citation needed]

Armatrading is reluctant to discuss her personal life in interviews. In a 2003 interview with David Thomas of The Daily Telegraph, she said: [4] Armatrading left for London to join the touring cast of Hair, then spent a year on the dole to write music with a partner, Pamela Nestor, with whom she split after her first album, 1972’s Whatever’s For Us. The record label bigwig, the story goes, had focused more on Armatrading’s voice, and so she was signed as a solo act rather than as a duo. That split with her only songwriting partner is one of the few points of intrigue I can find in Armatrading’s past, and even that isn’t so juicy. Nestor produced one reggae-ish solo single a couple years later, and eventually dropped out of the music business altogether. Other than an abstract for her Ph.D. thesis, there’s no sign of her online. UK Retail Price Index inflation figures are based on data from Clark, Gregory (2017). "The Annual RPI and Average Earnings for Britain, 1209 to Present (New Series)". MeasuringWorth . Retrieved 11 June 2022.In 2003, no longer attached to a major label, she released the album Lovers Speak. Though it was her first album in eight years, it met with little commercial success. In 2004, she released a live album, Live: All the Way from America, which was a recording of a concert from her Lovers Speak tour. Armatrading presented a five-part series on BBC Radio 4 called Joan Armatrading's Favourite Guitarists which was broadcast in July 2009, in which she talked to guitarists about their music and their technique. [44] She followed this up with another five-part series called Joan Armatrading: More Guitar Favourites, which was broadcast in November and December 2011. [45]

Singer/songwriter Joan Armatrading on Guildford life, 'Love and Affection' and her music career". Surrey Life. 20 September 2012 . Retrieved 7 June 2019. In 2014 and 2015, Armatrading embarked on her last major tour, the Me Myself I Tour, the first to feature her solo on stage. An accompanying CD/DVD album, entitled Me Myself I World Tour, was released in 2016. [33] [34] In 2000, Bob Rowe covered the song for his tribute album Tom Thumb's Blues – A Tribute to Judy Collins.

As of 2012, [update] Armatrading lived in Surrey, where she owns Bumpkin Studios, a purpose-built recording facility in the grounds of her home where she has recorded most of her albums since Sleight of Hand. [65] [66] Tuber, Keith (September 1983). "Joan Armatrading hopes The Key finds success". Orange Coast Magazine. Emmis Communications: 130–131. ISSN 0279-0483 . Retrieved 27 September 2011. Lewis, Isobel (25 April 2023). "Joan Armatrading's first classical symphony to be performed at Queen Elizabeth Hall". The Independent . Retrieved 23 November 2023. Lewis, Isobel (10 May 2021). "Tony Armatrading: Colour Blind and Notting Hill actor dies aged 59 of cancer". The Independent. Archived from the original on 9 June 2022 . Retrieved 11 May 2021. Armatrading entered into a civil partnership with artist Maggie Butler in the Shetland Islands in 2011, [61] [62] [63] the day after the Shetland Folk Festival, [64] but does not talk publicly about being gay. [62]

The line indicates that the narrator is torn between her loyalty to her current lover and her feelings for the other person. 5. What is the legacy of The Weakness In Me?Armatrading performs on both six- and twelve-string acoustic and electric guitars. [55] She has played on Ovation acoustic instruments since 1973, and said this about them in an interview with the magazine Guitar Player: "I'm a bit of a hitter, you see – I bash – and I like to have everything going at once: bass, harmony, and melody. This is why I love Ovations. They are very powerful-sounding guitars, and when I hit those strings, they ring with a nice, clear, percussive – but not overly bright – sound that highlights the rhythms I like to play." [55] [56] She has played Fender Stratocaster and Gibson electric guitars. [55] For her 2012–13 tour, she performed on six- and 12-string Ovations, Stratocasters, and customised Tom Anderson guitars, while for her 2014–2015 Me Myself I Tour, she performed on Ovation and Variax instruments. [34] [57] Personal life [ edit ] The world doesn’t need to know what colour my bedroom walls are,” she famously told one reporter. But people do. Her songs are almost exclusively about matters of the heart, lovers and love. You would figure out something personal from all that. Saina, Nicolette (14 August 1996). "Edmonton Fest Ends on High Lang Note". Chicago Tribune. Archived from the original on 9 May 2023 . Retrieved 9 May 2023. Edmonton Folk Fest's list of past performers, by year: "Past Artists: Lists by year". Edmonton Folk Music Festival.