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Joan Anita Barbara Armatrading, MBE (/ˈɑːrməˌtreɪdɪŋ/, born 9 December 1950) is a British singer-songwriter and guitarist.
As a three-time Grammy Award-nominee, Armatrading was nominated twice for BRIT Awards as Best Female Artist. She also received an Ivor Novello Award for Outstanding Contemporary Song Collection in 1996.
In a recording career spanning 40 years, Armatrading has released 18 studio albums, as well as several live albums and compilations.
Joan Armatrading was born in 1950 in Basseterre on the Caribbean island of Saint Kitts as the third of six children. Her father was a carpenter and her mother was a housewife. When she was three years old, her parents moved with their two eldest boys to Birmingham, England, while Joan was sent to live with her grandmother on the Caribbean island of Antigua. In early 1958 at the age of seven, she joined her parents in Brookfields, then a slum district of Birmingham. The area is now mostly demolished and has been absorbed into the district of Handsworth. Her father had played in a band in his youth, later forbidding his children from touching his guitar. At about the age of 14, Armatrading began writing songs by setting her own limericks to music on a piano that her mother had purchased as "a piece of furniture". Shortly thereafter, her mother bought her a £3 guitar from a pawn shop in exchange for two prams, and the younger Armatrading began teaching herself the instrument.
Joan Armatrading is the third studio album from the British singer-songwriter Joan Armatrading.
Released in 1976, it included Armatrading's sole Top 10 hit single, "Love and Affection". The album peaked at number 12 and was certified Gold by the British Phonographic Industry.
Armatrading's 1979 live album Steppin' Out contained two songs from this album, "Love and Affection" and "Tall in the Saddle".
The album's producer, Glyn Johns, later said it was the best album he'd ever been associated with.
In 1976, Robin Denselow wrote in The Guardian that the album "showed that we now have a black artist in Britain with the same sort of vocal range, originality (in fact even greater originality in terms of musical influences) and lyrical sensitivity" as Joni Mitchell. In a review for Allmusic, Dave Connolly gave the album a rating of 4.5 stars out of 5. He called it Armatrading's "most muscular music to date" and particularly praised "Down to Zero" and "Love and Affection". He also commended Glyn Johns' production. He said that the album "almost single-handedly [elevated Armatrading] into the ranks of rock's leading female artists."
"Down to Zero" is a 1976 song by British singer-songwriter Joan Armatrading. It features pedal steel guitar by B. J. Cole and drums by Kenney Jones of the Faces.
The song first appeared on Armatrading's 1976 album Joan Armatrading, which was produced and engineered by Glyn Johns and recorded at the independent Olympic Studios in Barnes, London. It was the first song to be recorded for the album. "Down To Zero" was released as a single, also in 1976, by A&M ("Down to Zero/Like Fire" – AMS 7270), and followed the success of the single "Love and Affection" which had been released in August 1976.
In his review of the album on AllMusic, Dave Connolly cites "Down to Zero" as "[one of] the album's most memorable tracks". Women's music writer Lucy O'Brien described the song as "a full-tilt rollercoaster ... a masterly analysis of rejection." Critic Wilfrid Mellers, in his book Angels of the Night, praised the song's "jazz intensity", achieved he says, through its "triplet cross-rhythms".
Joan Armatrading performs 'Down To Zero' on the Old Grey Whistle Test 1976
Watch Joan Armatrading perform live at the Folk Awards 2016 in London. Visit the Folk Awards website for more videos and photos bbc.co.uk/folkawards
From the best of Joan Armatrading
http://wfuv.org • Follow @wfuv: http://ow.ly/flLAg Joan Armatrading performs "Down to Zero" live in Studio A. Recorded 5/30/18. Host: Rita Houston Audio: Lili Huang Cameras: Brian Gallagher, Alexandra Brennan and Kirsten Anastasio Editor: Alexandra Brennan and Brian Gallagher
Joan Armatrading - Down To Zero Recorded Live - Paste Studios - New York, NY More Joan Armatrading: https://www.daytrotter.com/search.html?t=Joan+Armatrading Visit Daytrotter: https://www.daytrotter.com
Joan Armatrading - Love & Affection - The Old Grey Whistle Test
Joan Armatrading at Rokpalast, '79, Red Young,keys; Rick Hirsch, guitars; Lon Price, woodwinds; Bill Bodine, bass; Art Rodriguez, drums
Provided to YouTube by BMG Rights Management (UK) Ltd. Down to Zero (Live) · Joan Armatrading Live: All the Way from America ℗ 2004 Giftwend Limited under exclusive licence to BMG Rights Management (UK) Limited Released on: 2004-07-13 Producer: Joan Armatrading Keyboards: Spencer Cozens Saxophone, Flute, Drums: Gary Foote Author, Composer: Joan Armatrading Auto-generated by YouTube.
Joan Anita Barbara Armatrading, MBE (/ˈɑːrməˌtreɪdɪŋ/, born 9 December 1950) is a British singer-songwriter and guitarist.
As a three-time Grammy Award-nominee, Armatrading was nominated twice for BRIT Awards as Best Female Artist. She also received an Ivor Novello Award for Outstanding Contemporary Song Collection in 1996.
In a recording career spanning 40 years, Armatrading has released 18 studio albums, as well as several live albums and compilations.
Joan Armatrading was born in 1950 in Basseterre on the Caribbean island of Saint Kitts as the third of six children. Her father was a carpenter and her mother was a housewife. When she was three years old, her parents moved with their two eldest boys to Birmingham, England, while Joan was sent to live with her grandmother on the Caribbean island of Antigua. In early 1958 at the age of seven, she joined her parents in Brookfields, then a slum district of Birmingham. The area is now mostly demolished and has been absorbed into the district of Handsworth. Her father had played in a band in his youth, later forbidding his children from touching his guitar. At about the age of 14, Armatrading began writing songs by setting her own limericks to music on a piano that her mother had purchased as "a piece of furniture". Shortly thereafter, her mother bought her a £3 guitar from a pawn shop in exchange for two prams, and the younger Armatrading began teaching herself the instrument.
Every light is on
But all the rooms
Are empty
Except one
Oh babe don't stay too late
You know I hate to be alone
And I'm alone
Baby woncha come on home
There's a madman
Standing on the corner
And he keeps on looking
At my window
Oh baby woncha come on home
Home
Every key is turned
And every window's bolted
From inside
Oh babe you know I get so scared
You know I couldn't live alone
It's just been confirmed
Baby woncha come on home
Standing on the corner
Is a madman
Looking at my window
Oh baby woncha come on home
Home
Baby woncha come on home
There's a man
Standing on the corner
Now a shadow
Moves across the window
Oh baby woncha come on home
Home