Date:
27 Sep 2004
JOHN MARTYN ANTHOLOGY
... a male Billie Holiday.
Guy Barker - jazz arranger
I'm just beginning to learn why I'm playing.
I'm a talented man
and I can use that talent in music.
And music is an essential communication.
It can be used for good.
John Martyn, 1974
There's a place between words and music
and my voice lives right there.
John Martyn
The fact I'm a professional
musician is an accident.
I didn't set out to be one.
They came to me to record an album
and I thought: "Why not?".
Since then I've carried on
just because I've had no desire to stop.
John Martyn
Mostly I give my singing seven
and a half out of ten.
But about once every three years or so,
you hit nine and a half.
And when it happens,
you never really know why it happens.
John Martyn
I must confess I prefer writing love songs
to anything else. They come easily to me.
I don't know why,
it's not as if I am an abnormally loving person.
I'm an incurable romantic
and that can be uncomfortable
in these troubled and cynical times.
But I am proud of it
and I am not going to change now.
John Martyn
| CD 1 | CD 2 |
|---|---|
| 1. Bless The Weather 4:43 2. Solid Air 6:41 3. May You Never 4:16 4. Outside In 8:02 5. One World 4:01 6. Sunday's Child 6:08 7. Make No Mistake 4:56 8. I'd Rather Be The Devil 8:49 9. So Much In Love 5:26 10. Serendipity 4:11 11. Send Me A Line [sic] 5:34 12. Yes We Can 6:36 13. Carmine 8:00 (John Martyn) |
1. Big Muff 6:43 2. Dealer 4:54 3. Smiling Strangers [sic] 4:41 4. Couldn't Love You More 3:07 5. One Day Without You 4:22 6. Cooltide 12:17 7. Sweet Little Mystery 4:05 8. Hole In The Rain 3:54 9. Angeline 5:08 10. The River 4:24 11. The Apprentice 4:14 12. The Moment 3:42 13. Jack The Lad 6:36 14. I Don't Wanna Know 4:26 (John Martyn) |
Perhaps if I'd drunk coffee all my life
I'd have been a superstar!
John Martyn
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