{"id":3613387,"uri":"https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3613387/?format=json","airdate":"2026-02-05T04:25:54-08:00","show":65843,"show_uri":"https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65843/?format=json","image_uri":"https://coverartarchive.org/release/58f37f2b-1e1a-4901-9b87-dff485a2c475/39053489593-500.jpg","thumbnail_uri":"https://coverartarchive.org/release/58f37f2b-1e1a-4901-9b87-dff485a2c475/39053489593-250.jpg","song":"I’m Lucky","track_id":null,"recording_id":"22677905-0827-4245-aef6-3d4ad7eba5ac","artist":"Joan Armatrading","artist_ids":["fa598e78-5cc5-4a8b-a3b5-63934d4712c7"],"album":"Walk Under Ladders","release_id":null,"release_group_id":"062b1c92-6ce2-32f1-9fbd-e8a3cbe176b1","labels":["A&M Records"],"label_ids":["35515729-1f2c-4cc9-9390-9af2764bc56c"],"release_date":"1981-09-01","rotation_status":null,"is_local":false,"is_request":false,"is_live":false,"comment":"This song was written and produced by Joan Armatrading for her seventh studio album, 1981's \"Walk Under Ladders.\"\n--\nIn 2020 the incredibly gifted Joan Armatrading received the Women of the Year lifetime achievement award in the UK.  \nThe three-times-Grammy, twice-Brit-awards nominee has made 19 albums, with 2018’s Not Too Far Away returning her to the charts, and she remains a global inspiration. Biographies call her “the first black British female singer-songwriter to achieve international success”, but she’d like to correct this.\n “I’m actually the first woman, not just the first black woman,” she says. “It’s important because ‘black’ implies someone did it before me. Of course, there had been very successful female artists, but they didn’t write their songs.” Which she did, aged 14, “when there weren’t any role models for me.\"  Read more: https://bit.ly/3smqCfR","location":1,"location_name":"Default","play_type":"trackplay"}