Joan Armatrading - Back To The Night CD

Joan Armatrading - Back To The Night CDAfter her 1972 debut Whatevers For Us, Armatradings sophomore album, Back to the Night, brings her three years later a step closer to be the complete singer songwriter and the distinctive artist as we know her. The songs are tightly constructed, melodic, harmonically rich. The arrangements, from simple guitar to full band, always support her mellifluous, expressive voice. Her lyrics carry strong messages, create vignettes of our world that tell us who

released in 1989

this edition captures every subtlety of the performance and production

Long out of print on vinyl

Little Girl

Night Of The Living Baseheads

Pretty Things 6

I Went Too Far

You're Nobody (Til Somebody Kills You)

there was some continued crossover with King Crimson activities – both Michael and Peter played on the Jan/April sessions for Crimson’s “In the Wake of Poseidon” prior to the recording and Peter Sinfield contributed lyrics for side 2 of McDonald & Giles’ ‘Birdman’

Tennis Court2

When I Was Poor

The album has now sold over 10 million copies worldwide and was never before issued on vinyl