Joan Armatrading - "The Weakness In Me"

She’s the kind of songwriter that leaves you yearning. She knows how to find those human connections that are at once completely individual and yet utterly universal. An often overlooked precursor to some of our most beloved female singer songwriters, she helped pave the way for airplay to multiple women on the radio at a time.

Joan Anita Barbara Armatrading, CBE is a Kittitian-English singer-songwriter and guitarist. A three-time Grammy Award nominee, Armatrading has also been nominated twice for BRIT Awards as Best Female Artist. She received an Ivor Novello Award for Outstanding Contemporary Song Collection in 1996.

In a recording career spanning nearly 50 years, Armatrading has released 20 studio albums, as well as several live albums and compilations, and is highly regarded as one of the first female folk/pop singer songwriters to cross the pond.

So today, with self examination, I chose Joan Armatrading’s achingly tender "The Weakness In Me" as my, see yourself, be gentle, be better, song for a, with understanding, with knowledge, with determination, Thursday.