Old Grey Whistle Test (2)
BBC
13 Mar 1973
Two solo acoustric tracks recorded in BBC London studio.
Tracks:
UK
Solid Air - Island ILPS 9226
3 Mar 1973
Melody Maker
How do you begin to describe a guitarist as sensitive and as accomplished as John Martyn?
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Solid Air
Inside Out - Island ILPS 9253
1 Mar 1973
Supersnazz #2
Reviewing this sort of album is a bit like dissecting a meat pie after you've eaten it. I could resort to pages of pseudo intellectual wofflé, or I could do Charles Shaar Murray and wax effusively. The safest bet is to say that this album is superb, and Ain't No Saint and Make No Mistake sum the whole album up. There's some thing for everyone here. So this can't be bad at all.
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Inside Out
Music Speaks For Martyn
27 Jan 1973
Melody Maker
John Martyn will talk about anything without the slightest provocation, except his music. He's suspicious of words.
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Will you love them tomorrow?
30 Dec 1972
Melody Maker
MM writers pick the names who'll make it big in '73
John Martyn
"I'm trying to pull electric music into acoustic and acoustic into electric," John Martyn told me earlier this year1. It's been said a million times before, easy words to find, but Martyn moves nearer to that end than any artist I've heard.
Martyn Turns On
19 Feb 1972
Melody Maker
"I'M trying to pull electric into acoustic and acoustic into electric."
Guide to the week
12 Feb 1972
Melody Maker
Guide to the week
■ JOHN MARTYN (City University, London, Thursday): Part folk singer, part rock and roller, John Martyn will titillate your ear and give food to your soul. The rock musician's nightmare is an acoustic musician who has mastered the use of electric guitar playing.
Leeds, Polytechnic, 14 Jan 1972
22 Jan 1972
Melody Maker
Bronco
BRONCO, headed out on their latest nationwide tour of mainly student centres, when they topped a bill at Leeds Polytechnic1 which proved a big artistic, if not quite a financial
bonanza.
Old Grey Whistle Test (1)
BBC
18 Jan 1972
This is an obscure performance and in fact probably the oldest TV recording made of John.
Artists listed are Bell & Arc, John Martyn.
Henry Pond reports: "I saw John on OGWT in a session which I think must have been earlier than the 13th March 73. He was playing solo, the tracks were Bless The Weather and (I'm guessing) Glistening Glyndebourne. I still have the (mono) cassette somewhere complete with background whistle where I recorded the program via microphone in front of the TV speaker."
Bless The Weather - Island ILPS 9167
25 Dec 1971
Record Mirror
Bless John Martyn. Here's an album to delight from one end to the other, and there's not a wet spot during it either. Except...
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Bless The Weather
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