Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. "I thought Pam was great," Joan Armatrading says of her early lyric-writing partner, Pam Nestor. "She was totally different from ...

Casual Joan Armatrading fans, remembering only such '70s folk-pop hits as "Love and Affection," might be surprised by the title of her new album: "Into the Blues." Monday night at Birchmere, the ...