Joan Armatrading

Joan Armatrading’s “Weakness In Me”

July 10, 2014

Joan Armatrading has long been known for heart-on-sleeve songs that listeners (especially women-loving women) could find themselves in. “Weakness In Me” is one such song — plaintive, pleading, and lifting its shirt to reveal lovers’ wounds. But in these scarred, soaring vocals: strength.