Long promo sampler from Inside Out period
"Promotional copy not for resale"
island records ltd
22 st peters square
london w6 9nw
I had to estimate the release date but based on the releases involved, it was probably around October 1st 1973.
JOHN MARTYN:
"Inside Out" (Island)
YOU COULD SAY that the post decadence rock scene is structured rather like the society of ants: a hangover of old drones twittering away behind last year's plump queens - and a few lean workers here and there trying to rebuild the crumbling territory.
22 Sep 1973
JOHN MARTYN is one of the richest musical performers on the current scene. His roots meld traditional folk and blues aspects with the frontiers of jazz.
Edinburgh Festival: Reports by Stuart Hoggard, Ian MacDonald
Front Row Reviews
18 Aug 1973
AN EERIE presence of nocturnal energy filled Island's No. 2 studio - an energy that had probably found its peak around 3 a.m. but which was beginning to wane as the sun came up over the Westway.
21 Jul 1973
JOHN MARTYN has made six albums, two with his wife Beverly, and after seven years he's just coming out into the sun. Critics in both Britain and America have been talking about him for a long time, and groups and singers record his songs - numbers like Would You Believe Me?, Bless The Weather, John The Baptist, Stormbringer, and his signature-tune Head And Heart.
Last night the Shaw theatre was packed to capacity for his solo concert, and be demonstrated both the reasons why he is so admired, and the reasons why he has not done any better.
6 minutes.
Good version of Rather Be The Devil with stereo effects, recorded BBC Langham Studios, London.
BBC6 claimed 2004 this 'Devil Got My Woman' to be the oldest surviving recording in their archives.
John Martyn, whose solo spot opened the show, fared quite well in the face of appalling sound.
Two solo acoustric tracks recorded in BBC London studio.
