Walk Under Ladders

Show Some Emotion Digitally Remastered. 10 Tracks Include: Willow, Show Some Emotion, Warm Love and Others.	Me Myself I Digitally remastered. 10 tracks include "Me Myself & I", "Turn Out The Light", "I Need You" and more.	Joan Armatrading There weren't many female singer-songwriters on the radio (and especially the charts) in the 1970s--you could count them pretty much on two hands. That said, it's only mildly surprising that this LP made it about halfway up the U.S. charts (and did much better in the U.K.). The s...	Into the Blues On the surface, yes, this is a blues album; mostly, though, it's a Joan Armatrading album--which means she'll follow blues forms and conceits wherever she damn well pleases. On "Liza," she takes the "Mannish Boy" groove across the tracks for a pick-up on the wrong side of town; o...	Lovers Speak Lovers Speak marks not only Joan Armatrading's return to recording after an eight-year hiaturs, but to the stripped down, folk-rock sounds of her earlier years. Armatrading here plays most of the instruments herself, as well as the role of producer, and while she's a fantastic ta...
The Shouting Stage	Whatever's for Us Remastered reissue of the under-appreciated singer/songwrriter's classic 1972 debut album, currently out-of-print domestically. Includes definitive sleeve notes on her career and two bonus tracks, 'Lonely Lady' and 'Together In Words And Music'. Includes the highly acclaimed artw...	Joan Armatrading - Greatest Hits	Hearts and Flowers	Square the Circle

Wish it were still in print
I've been a fan of hers since the mid '70s, & this is perhaps my favorite album. Best tracks include "I'm Lucky" and of course, "The Weakness in Me". Just got her "Gold" collection, which inludes many of her best songs from the early years, but unfortunately, not "I'm Lucky".

Treasure found anew
When I heard The Weakness in Me on the Showtime series The L Word I remembered how I felt when I heard it for the first time. A truly GREAT album!

the songwriters songwriter at her best
It's so sad to see only a few reviews sitting under this record. Joan is perhaps the best female singer/songwriter to emerge from the embattled seventies-while most sultry, authoratative voices were pumping out trashy disco romps, Joan was busy singing about real life. Her prolific career has now spanned over 30 years and has amassed a rabidly loyal fan base. Yet Joan never "popped." Not to sound like a music snot, but it takes a truly fine ear to appreciate what she's trying to do. Her lyrics and arrangements are always fresh (unlike some of her talented but somewhat shallow folk rock sisters) and even when dealing with tender subject matter, her songs cut to the bone. Her music either takes your breath away with it's directness or the clever use of metaphor that belies her history as a former aspiring fiction writer. Her voice! I just can't say enough about this woman... But this record is perhaps my favorite and in my opinion, the one to start with if you are new to the wonderful land of Joan. It contains her torch song, the unforgettable "weakness in me" but it also has the title song "walk under ladders"-a song that approaches the giddy, immortal attitude of new love like no other and the witty and indignant "when i get it right" that speaks with honesty about trying and failing to fit into the boxes other people create for you. I will warn you: this is not tracey chapman or melissa ethridge or ani difranco or indigo girls or dar williams. this is joan and she sounds only like herself. So if you are looking for a copycat of the above artists or traditional folk sensibility, keep looking. And, because this record is 30 years old or so, it does have some casio/horn parts that may sound a tad dated to younger than 30 ears. Like I said, She never just hung out with the same acoustic guitar and three chords and thus some things that were innovative at the time of recording may not sound that way now. But I'm 27 and I never tire of this record. And I've been listening to it since I was 4 with my mom, the eternal joan fan. So-stop being in the dark about Joan. Buy this record!~

walk under ladders, joan armatrading
Go Joan..."the Woman in Me" is the best song of all....brings back lovely memories of days long ago in Colorado.

Armatrading's trailblazing nature
Joan Armatrading is naturally a trail blazer, leading the way for artists such as Tracy Chapman and others. Armatrading is an excellant song writer whose vocal stylings remind me of early Odetta recordings. My favorites on Walking Under Ladders are Romances, At The Hop and Only One. Armatrading's influences has spanned generations and cultures.