Album review

London Conversation, The Tumbler, Bless The Weather, Inside Out, Sunday's Child (remastered & expanded)

1 Jan 2006
Record Collector #319
Euan Andrews

London Conversation
* *
Island/Universal cat. no. tbc (42:07)
The Tumbler
* * *
Island/Universal cat. no. tbc (34:09)
Bless The Weather
* * * *
Island/Universal cat. no. tbc (75:21)
Inside Out
* * * *
Island/Universal cat. no. tbc (59:16)
Sunday's Child

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Bless The Weather
Inside Out
London Conversation
Sunday's Child
The Tumbler

On The Cobbles - Independiente ISOM 43CD

28 Jun 2004
Belfast Telegraph
Anonymous

Music Life: Well Kept Secret

ISN'T it a bitter-Sweet Little Mystery why Ulster live visitor, John Martyn, remains one of those secretly coveted cult artists, after more than 35 years of sterling music-making? For Martyn, who tops the bill at this year's Get Down With The Blues Festival, in Downpatrick, this week, sadly remains a little-known name to the general public.Yet, it's this Scottish man's deft mix of everything from traditional folk, baleful blues, smoky jazz and tense funk, which is revered by a who's who of rock stars, such as Eric Clapton, Beck and Beth Orton.

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On The Cobbles

One World - Island ILPS 9492

26 Jun 2004
Radio Times
Phill Jupitus

John Martyn
One World (Island)

The layered folk of a hi-tech rag 'n' bone man enters the orbit of planet Jupitus.

Phill Jupitus

WORLDLY WISDOM

A spacey 'n' smooth classic from the prolific UK folk fusionist. Martyn is the subject of the documentary John Martyn: Johnny Too Bad (Friday BBC2).1

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One World

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