Piece By Piece [remastered & expanded]
26 Jan 2015
The Bottom Line:
Well produced collectors item in the so-called RePresents series
2CD: Island 471 173-4
UK
The Best Of The Island Years
1 Dec 2014
Record Collector #434
If you were too strapped or scared to commit to last year's Brobdingnagian 18-disc Island Years box set, this comparatively svelte four-disc iteration creams off the most noteworthy alternate takes, epochal live performances and rarities featured on its corpulent parent.
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The Best Of The Island Years
Danny Thompson: bass player for the greats
28 Mar 2014
The Telegraph
Danny Thompson is celebrating his 75th birthday with a series of concerts with musical collaborators such as Richard Thompson and Donovan. Here the double bass maestro talks about his varied career playing with folk and jazz greats and pop stars such as Kate Bush and Cliff Richard.
Singing From The Floor
06 Mar 2014
London, Faber & Faber 2014 | ISBN 978-0-571-30545-2
Singing From The Floor
A History Of British Folk Clubs
The Island Years [box set]
1 Nov 2013
Record Collector #420
It's more than a little ironic that this sumptuous box celebrating Martyn's lengthy tenure at Island should include the first official appearance of the album that brought about the end of his relationship with the company.
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The Island Years [box set]
Solid Heirlooms!
01 Aug 2013
Uncut #195
The unheard JOHN MARTYN:
Uncut's sneak preview of
a revelatory new 18CD boxset...
Birmingham, Town Hall, 28 Nov 1977
27 Jul 2013
Loose Handlebars blog
Life is a lesson to learn in our time | John Martyn
[excerpt]
It was on the One World tour that I got to see John Martyn play in concert again. Birmingham Town Hall is a striking Romanesque monument to Victorian provincial achievement, taste & rectitude.
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One World
Colchester, Essex University, 19 Feb 1972
27 Jul 2013
Loose Handlebars blog
Life is a lesson to learn in our time | John Martyn
[excerpt]
The first time I saw John Martyn play live was on the 19th of February 1972. Blimey, I was just a baby!
Remembering John Martyn - Secret SECDD054
1 Sep 2012
Record Collector #405
In which a miscellany of John Martyn's live performances and stray studio sessions are assembled into a coherent whole – even if it takes two handily compartmentalised CDs to do so.
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Remembering John Martyn
One World... One John - LSM 4014
1 May 2012
Record Collector #401
"I like the idea of a video that wasn't a concert, and the lads backstage," notes a comfortably overstuffed John Martyn from a similarly overstuffed armchair. "That's Spinal Tap stuff."
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One World... One John (DVD)
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