@@noteverton - she was a child when she came here aged 7...following her mum and dad who left for the uk when she was 3 (she was left with her grandmother)...
If I can feel the sun in my eyes and the rain on my face....why can’t I feel ......love. Great lyrics, great music. Joan’s been successful since 1970s. Her voice is still the same now.
This song sill holds the same magic for me as it did the first time I heard it on the radio all those years ago. I think it's rare for a song that steps outside the normal boundaries of song construction to be able to flow so seamlessly and connect so directly with an audience.
Listen to the weakness in me by her it's amazing. Such a singer songwriter. She was the track Chapman of the 70's and 80's and still touring today I got to see her two years ago and she is still as amazing as she was then. Love her.
She is still touring I saw her a year ago and she is still amazing. I love her and of course Tracey Chapman who sounds just like her. She was a huge fan of joans. I luv them both so much such a talented women with such powerful voices and both have amazing way with words as they are the songwriters.
Thank you. I agree with you 100%.Tray Chapman is amazing but not as original as people thought. Joan armatrading was so talented and unique. I wish more people knew and appreciated her music. Thank you for this reaction video. One my favorite songs
Thanks for your reaction it's funny I've been listening to Joan and Tracy for a long time as usual your spot on with your comments I wish you the best of luck with this new channel my friend 👍
I liked how mellow this song was, and again another artist I never heard before. I'm learning that there were a lot of great artists at that time and I wonder why their music isn't heard about much for my generation unless they were really big artists. Maybe there's just so much current-day music that I never thought of trying to see what was availabe back in the day. LoL
I like ya style man...........................Joan is a Colossus. Check out Willow and Down To Zero they pull ya heart out and hold it in front of your face.
Joan is still with us 73? ...Any fan of guitar based music of any genre of the 70s /80s has huge respect for Joan , if the 50's and 60s had immortal Blues Guitarists like Bo Diddley , Muddy Waters , BB King and Rock n Roll legends like Little Richard and Chuck Berry and late 60s early 70s Progressive Rock developing into early Metal Jimi Hendrix , all trail blazers and influental musicians .Then add Joan Armatrading to that list ; born in St Kitts & Nevis in the Caribbean , and lived in Birmingham , England from the age of 7 , a music critic said of the 3rd album that contained " LOVE AND AFFECTION" .....""Often Unrecognised as she is we need Joan Armatrading like we need Bob Dylan and the Beatles. You'll play this record once in a while , forever.! " Armatrading possesses the vocal range of a contralto. Her music draws on a wide range of influences including rock, folk, jazz, blues, soul, and reggae.....(Ive performed a 70s / 80s Disco gig every friday for the past 16 years , Joan Armatrading gets requested and played from time to time and the affect is " I love this" and people stop and listen to Joan and nod approvingly actually out of overwhelming respect ) ....Armatrading performs on both six- and twelve-string acoustic and electric guitars. 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."...100% LEGEND , a role model and influential for every Female Solo Guitarist since ..Her 2007 album Into the Blues debuted at No. 1 on the US Billboard Blues Chart, making Armatrading the first UK female artist to earn that distinction. Into the Blues, which Armatrading called "the CD I've been promising myself to write for a long time", was nominated for a Grammy Award, also making her the first female UK artist to be nominated in the Grammy Blues category.. One of the most accomplished female singer-songwriters of the late 1970s-early 1980s who never quite got the attention she deserved. She was Tracy Chapman a decade before the world had ever heard of Tracy Chapman . Joan says ; "In the 1970s black women weren’t supposed to play rock guitars. They were supposed to be soul or disco singers and sing about staying up all night dancing." The music industry didn’t know how to market the singer with a mini afro who wore no make-up and dressed in androgynous clothes. In America, her music was deemed too “white” for a black singer. " “I heard somebody say once I was way too black,” . “And then someone answers she’s not black enough for me.” .,,In 1974, Joan Armatrading set out her musical philosophy when she told Spare Rib magazine: “Black women don’t sing sweet because they haven’t been brainwashed so much into thinking they’ve got to be weak. The opposite, they’ve got to be strong. So, they just get on with it.”. Joan was a musical revoluntionary and a enigma , but shes also a very private person . "People who like my music have a legitimate interest in me, but I need to retain some privacy, not to be telling people what's going on, or what I feel. When you go home, the reason it's beautiful is because it's personal to you and the people you want to include in it.". On her song writing “As a singer and songwriter, I think about the emotions of people and the feelings they have for each other, and how they affect each other,” she said. “That’s what I’m good at. “I don’t necessarily feel I can write overtly political songs. I have my views and I’m quite definite about the things I care about, but I leave [topical songwriting] to the people who are very good at it.” “I don’t see very often people saying, ‘I was influenced by Joan’, but I certainly hear it,” she once said. “Sometimes I think, ‘My goodness, it’s one of my songs with different words’.” those influenced by Joan ,The list of citations also includes Dave Matthews, Sade, Ben Harper, Paula Cole, Des’ree, Toni Childs, Tanita Tikaram, Cyndi Lauper and Linda Perry of 4 Non Blondes. Artists like Fiona Apple, Minnie Birch, Le Tigre, Bono (he sang part of ‘Love And Affection’ during U2’s Joshua Tree tour in 2019), Melissa Etheridge (she has performed ‘The Weakness in Me’ at her shows) and Tracy Chapman have cited her as an influence. Indeed, the latter was once called “the new Joan Armatrading”. *Joan Armatrading performed the title theme song " Flight Of The Wild Geese " for the 1978 film 'The Wild Geese'. a All Star Cast, Richard Burton, Roger Moore, Richard Harris and Hardy Kruger, plus a host of other British actors. *Drop The Pilot · Joan Armatrading , Joans last chart entry to date : ℗ An A&M Records Release; ℗ 1983 UMG Recordings, Inc. The old Joan Armatrading, at 73 ... years of age, is doing just fine.
I get the Tracy Chapmen similarities. There are some. But in my opinion I hear way more Joni Mitchell. He tone. Jazz and Blues progressions. I love Tracy. Especially Matters of the Heart. Joan and Joni are Icons.
I remember learning this for a concert with just piano, guitar and vocal.... a tough tune with a lot of chords... always one of my favs from 70s. I prefer this version to the one on the album.
Now if I can feelllllllllllllllllllllll the sun in my eyes. And the rain on my face. Why cant I feellllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll........................................loveeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.
very intelligent remarks! e.g. if you gonna show love, show that you are committed to it. And also drawing a fine line to say, its Joan the lead the way, not tracy chapman.
I love Tracy Chapman, but I do think that Joan has a better voice - of the two. Thats not to detract from Tracy's good voice, but Joan's voice is something else. It instills such a huge range of emotions in you when you listen to her singing. When you decide to listen to her, you really just have to stop what you're doing....as her songs deserve full attention. It's sacrilege to have her on in the background while you do something else. Younger generations aren't good at giving a song their full attention; but you need to with Joan Armatrading. Her songs are always thoughtful and very well crafted.... without sounding over-produced. And that's also a pretty difficult balance to strike, when the songs are such great stories. She manages this balance with ease, and the deftest of touches.... through subtle raising and lowering of her voice in songs to signal shifts in mood. She is a masterful songwriter, and imo one of the best ever. How many people have a great voice, can play the guitar well, are an accomplished pianist, AND a good producer? ....not many!! She is a total one off and deserves her place in pop history as very much a pioneer. In this respect, I think to some extent Tracy Chapman owes Joan Armatrading a debt of gratitude, for Joan paved the way for Tracy, and others to carve out their own careers.
Tracy Chapman. Armatrading-lite. Don’t begrudge Chapmans success but JA never got the credit for being the originator of her sound. Glad you picked up on the similarities.
I get so tired of the comparisons between Joan Armatrading and and Tracy Chapman. There is a faint similarity in their voices. That's about it unless you want to discuss that they are both black women playing guitars. The similarities end there. Chapman was a folk style artist with a little bit of blues. Period. Joan encompasses so much more in her singing, writing, and guitar playing. Joan infuses funk, jazz and pop influences in her writing, is a dynamic live performer, and has her own unique singular style. I saw Chapman once in concert and was never interested in seeing her again. It was frankly a dull show. I've seen Armatrading half a dozen times or more and was always on my feet dancing. Joan can rock the house. Chapman rocked me to sleep.
Okay number one do not, I repeat do not put a comparison with Joan and Tracy Chapman, Tracy Chapman sounds like Joan armatrading, don't ever forget that this came out in 76
why, for the love of all the false gods, would you sit there masticating? It's like watching a cow chewing cud. Just saying. Otherwise, perfectly magnificent.
The best female singer songwriter to come out of the UK period.....and yes i am biased....sound of my youth.....what a woman!
She's not from the UK.
@@noteverton - she was a child when she came here aged 7...following her mum and dad who left for the uk when she was 3 (she was left with her grandmother)...
@@noteverton it doesn't matter
Kate bush wants a word
And US!
Joan writes the lyrics and the music. A shy performer, but my god this song gets to me every time. This is pre-Tracy Chapman
I always think how similar Joan and Tracy are. Two of a kind In their own little niche
Kinda like Coke and then Pepsi. So original, that Pepsi.
Tracy has the nerve to say Joan wasn't an inspiration. Can't imagine her not being an influence.
If I can feel the sun in my eyes and the rain on my face....why can’t I feel ......love. Great lyrics, great music. Joan’s been successful since 1970s. Her voice is still the same now.
This song sill holds the same magic for me as it did the first time I heard it on the radio all those years ago. I think it's rare for a song that steps outside the normal boundaries of song construction to be able to flow so seamlessly and connect so directly with an audience.
Joan isn't just one more pop singer......she is a true musical artist.....there's a big difference......
“But this time with a little dedication” oh man! She slays me. I got to see her in person- check out her catalog, she’s fantastic
She slays me too!!
I was lucky enough to see her in SF a number of years ago; she was truly amazing!
I first heard this song in the summer of 1976 and I've been a fan of her music ever since.
Joan Armatrading wrote the sound track to a great deal of my life. It's as though she could read my diary!
I loved her in 1976.She didn't get the recognition she should have.
Joan has dedicated fans who travel around to world to her
The slow build up and slow groove on this just plain awesome.
Listen to the weakness in me by her it's amazing. Such a singer songwriter. She was the track Chapman of the 70's and 80's and still touring today I got to see her two years ago and she is still as amazing as she was then. Love her.
I love that one - the story it tells is heartbreaking
She is still touring I saw her a year ago and she is still amazing. I love her and of course Tracey Chapman who sounds just like her. She was a huge fan of joans. I luv them both so much such a talented women with such powerful voices and both have amazing way with words as they are the songwriters.
wrote this one with her whole soul and you can feel it.. great video.. always loved this one
I like the fact you called it an honor...................................much respect. It truly is a work of art.
Yesss, I had forgotten about Joan. Shameful, I love her voice.
Joan would forgive you....................................................love and affection.
As already said.. such a talented singer. Beautiful songs.
She's a magical poet. Amazing!
Thank you. I agree with you 100%.Tray Chapman is amazing but not as original as people thought. Joan armatrading was so talented and unique. I wish more people knew and appreciated her music. Thank you for this reaction video. One my favorite songs
Amen to that brother.
Joan A is still playing :)
Joan is and will always be a great song writer, I only have discovered her again. I knew some of her songs from my youth. But she is a musical genius.
I remember her music well. Thank you.
One of my country's treasures.
Thanks for your reaction it's funny I've been listening to Joan and Tracy for a long time as usual your spot on with your comments I wish you the best of luck with this new channel my friend 👍
I've heard this song many times and it still brings a tear to my eye every time. I don't believe in God but talent like this is from another place.
I 🖤 this song. The 70s were heavy with talented, introspective singer song writers.
I remember listening 2 Joan on my bedside radio as a kid ! This song really stood out at the time ! ❤( ok -- found this channel too ~)
Thanks for joining us here
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Agree Joan and Tracy have similar sounds but Joan was decades earlier.
I liked how mellow this song was, and again another artist I never heard before. I'm learning that there were a lot of great artists at that time and I wonder why their music isn't heard about much for my generation unless they were really big artists. Maybe there's just so much current-day music that I never thought of trying to see what was availabe back in the day. LoL
You should check out Joan performing willow live in the studio
I like your style man..........................keep up the good work.
Joan Armatrading was and is so underrated.
I love Joan Armatrading. She soothes my soul.
Tracy Chapman was heavily influenced by her. Joan was influenced by Janis.
Joans always been cool.
I like ya style man...........................Joan is a Colossus. Check out Willow and Down To Zero they pull ya heart out and hold it in front of your face.
Joan is still with us 73? ...Any fan of guitar based music of any genre of the 70s /80s has huge respect for Joan , if the 50's and 60s had immortal Blues Guitarists like Bo Diddley , Muddy Waters , BB King and Rock n Roll legends like Little Richard and Chuck Berry and late 60s early 70s Progressive Rock developing into early Metal Jimi Hendrix , all trail blazers and influental musicians .Then add Joan Armatrading to that list ; born in St Kitts & Nevis in the Caribbean , and lived in Birmingham , England from the age of 7 , a music critic said of the 3rd album that contained " LOVE AND AFFECTION" .....""Often Unrecognised as she is we need Joan Armatrading like we need Bob Dylan and the Beatles. You'll play this record once in a while , forever.! " Armatrading possesses the vocal range of a contralto. Her music draws on a wide range of influences including rock, folk, jazz, blues, soul, and reggae.....(Ive performed a 70s / 80s Disco gig every friday for the past 16 years , Joan Armatrading gets requested and played from time to time and the affect is " I love this" and people stop and listen to Joan and nod approvingly actually out of overwhelming respect ) ....Armatrading performs on both six- and twelve-string acoustic and electric guitars. 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."...100% LEGEND , a role model and influential for every Female Solo Guitarist since ..Her 2007 album Into the Blues debuted at No. 1 on the US Billboard Blues Chart, making Armatrading the first UK female artist to earn that distinction. Into the Blues, which Armatrading called "the CD I've been promising myself to write for a long time", was nominated for a Grammy Award, also making her the first female UK artist to be nominated in the Grammy Blues category..
One of the most accomplished female singer-songwriters of the late 1970s-early 1980s who never quite got the attention she deserved. She was Tracy Chapman a decade before the world had ever heard of Tracy Chapman .
Joan says ;
"In the 1970s black women weren’t supposed to play rock guitars. They were supposed to be soul or disco singers and sing about staying up all night dancing."
The music industry didn’t know how to market the singer with a mini afro who wore no make-up and dressed in androgynous clothes. In America, her music was deemed too “white” for a black singer.
" “I heard somebody say once I was way too black,” . “And then someone answers she’s not black enough for me.” .,,In 1974, Joan Armatrading set out her musical philosophy when she told Spare Rib magazine: “Black women don’t sing sweet because they haven’t been brainwashed so much into thinking they’ve got to be weak. The opposite, they’ve got to be strong. So, they just get on with it.”.
Joan was a musical revoluntionary and a enigma , but shes also a very private person .
"People who like my music have a legitimate interest in me, but I need to retain some privacy, not to be telling people what's going on, or what I feel. When you go home, the reason it's beautiful is because it's personal to you and the people you want to include in it.".
On her song writing “As a singer and songwriter, I think about the emotions of people and the feelings they have for each other, and how they affect each other,” she said. “That’s what I’m good at.
“I don’t necessarily feel I can write overtly political songs. I have my views and I’m quite definite about the things I care about, but I leave [topical songwriting] to the people who are very good at it.”
“I don’t see very often people saying, ‘I was influenced by Joan’, but I certainly hear it,” she once said. “Sometimes I think, ‘My goodness, it’s one of my songs with different words’.” those influenced by Joan ,The list of citations also includes Dave Matthews, Sade, Ben Harper, Paula Cole, Des’ree, Toni Childs, Tanita Tikaram, Cyndi Lauper and Linda Perry of 4 Non Blondes.
Artists like Fiona Apple, Minnie Birch, Le Tigre, Bono (he sang part of ‘Love And Affection’ during U2’s Joshua Tree tour in 2019), Melissa Etheridge (she has performed ‘The Weakness in Me’ at her shows) and Tracy Chapman have cited her as an influence. Indeed, the latter was once called “the new Joan Armatrading”.
*Joan Armatrading performed the title theme song " Flight Of The Wild Geese " for the 1978 film 'The Wild Geese'. a All Star Cast, Richard Burton, Roger Moore, Richard Harris and Hardy Kruger, plus a host of other British actors.
*Drop The Pilot · Joan Armatrading , Joans last chart entry to date :
℗ An A&M Records Release; ℗ 1983 UMG Recordings, Inc.
The old Joan Armatrading, at 73 ... years of age, is doing just fine.
Armatrading's work is so wonderfully diverse. You might want to check out her "Opportunity (world wide adventure)" track.
Did you know, Joan sang background vocals on the song Don’t Loose Your Head by QUEEN!!!
Didn't
I get the Tracy Chapmen similarities. There are some. But in my opinion I hear way more Joni Mitchell. He tone. Jazz and Blues progressions. I love Tracy. Especially Matters of the Heart. Joan and Joni are Icons.
I remember learning this for a concert with just piano, guitar and vocal.... a tough tune with a lot of chords... always one of my favs from 70s. I prefer this version to the one on the album.
Clarke Peters from The Wire sings baritone backing vocals on this track. There blown your mind.
Why there haven been more reviews of this is beyond me. Over here, in Britain Joan was a much bigger star that Tracy Chapman.
You should check out Down to Zero - my favorite of hers
Have a look at her performance at Glastonbury particularly Drop The Pilot.
Now if I can feelllllllllllllllllllllll the sun in my eyes. And the rain on my face. Why cant I feellllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll........................................loveeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.
She has so many great songs. Yes the English Tracy Chapman.
Joan Armatrading was writing songs before Tracy Chapman was born
very intelligent remarks! e.g. if you gonna show love, show that you are committed to it. And also drawing a fine line to say, its Joan the lead the way, not tracy chapman.
Yeah, well known that Tracy Chapman has a Joan Armatrading fixation.
6/3/23 Produced by The Beatles music producer ..wonderful Album
Very perceptive reaction. Studio version hits harder
I love Tracy Chapman, but I do think that Joan has a better voice - of the two. Thats not to detract from Tracy's good voice, but Joan's voice is something else. It instills such a huge range of emotions in you when you listen to her singing.
When you decide to listen to her, you really just have to stop what you're doing....as her songs deserve full attention.
It's sacrilege to have her on in the background while you do something else. Younger generations aren't good at giving a song their full attention; but you need to with Joan Armatrading.
Her songs are always thoughtful and very well crafted.... without sounding over-produced. And that's also a pretty difficult balance to strike, when the songs are such great stories.
She manages this balance with ease, and the deftest of touches.... through subtle raising and lowering of her voice in songs to signal shifts in mood.
She is a masterful songwriter, and imo one of the best ever. How many people have a great voice, can play the guitar well, are an accomplished pianist, AND a good producer? ....not many!! She is a total one off and deserves her place in pop history as very much a pioneer.
In this respect, I think to some extent Tracy Chapman owes Joan Armatrading a debt of gratitude, for Joan paved the way for Tracy, and others to carve out their own careers.
Try Drop the Pilot from her
Tracy Chapman. Armatrading-lite. Don’t begrudge Chapmans success but JA never got the credit for being the originator of her sound. Glad you picked up on the similarities.
Joan was before Tracy. Its the other way round.
Tune X Tracey Chapman sound
I get so tired of the comparisons between Joan Armatrading and and Tracy Chapman. There is a faint similarity in their voices. That's about it unless you want to discuss that they are both black women playing guitars. The similarities end there. Chapman was a folk style artist with a little bit of blues. Period. Joan encompasses so much more in her singing, writing, and guitar playing. Joan infuses funk, jazz and pop influences in her writing, is a dynamic live performer, and has her own unique singular style. I saw Chapman once in concert and was never interested in seeing her again. It was frankly a dull show. I've seen Armatrading half a dozen times or more and was always on my feet dancing. Joan can rock the house. Chapman rocked me to sleep.
Okay number one do not, I repeat do not put a comparison with Joan and Tracy Chapman, Tracy Chapman sounds like Joan armatrading, don't ever forget that this came out in 76
Tracey chapmen not in the same league
Joan is a much better songwriter than Tracy Chapman.
The cameraman needs horse whipping.
I do not like you judging from your little seat , she was the best! How can you deny that? Shame on you
why, for the love of all the false gods, would you sit there masticating? It's like watching a cow chewing cud. Just saying. Otherwise, perfectly magnificent.