Joan Armatrading

Nothing really much to say about this one. Posted because 1) it's a good song, 2) my pal Sara Zarr likes Joan Armatrading, and 3) mentioned she'd never heard it before. So there you have it folks.

If you've never heard Armatrading... I read some guy on the internet the other day saying she was the original source for later black female singers like Tracy Chapman... kinda soul, but really not. I don't know that I completely agree with that (since I loathe Tracy Chapman), and I hear other things, much stronger influences--Ann Peebles, for example--in such latter-day singers. But whatever. I'm not really going to quibble. Like I said, it's a good song.

Joan Armatrading - Baby I (1978)