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With his characteristic backslap acoustic guitar playing, his effects-driven experimental journeys, and his catalog of excellent songs as well as his jazz-inflected singing style, John Martyn is an important and influential figure in both British folk and rock. Martyn started out as a folk artist with jazzy leanings that were highly unusual for the mid-'60s. He made a couple of albums with then-wife Beverley that were very much of their time before embarking on a musical journey that combined folk, blues, jazz, and rock, with a tendency towards electronic and atmospheric experimentation. His early-'70s albums, capped by Bless the Weather and Solid Air, are as distinctive and striking as anything in the singer/songwriter canon.
Tracklist
1 Fairy Tale Lullaby
2 London Conversation
3 Cocain
4 Back to Stay
5 Goin' Down to Memphis
6 Fishin' Blues
7 Knuckledy Crunch and Slippledee-slee Song
8 Stormbringer - John Martyn, Beverley Martyn
9 John the Baptist (Alternate Version) - John Martyn, Beverley Martyn
10 Traffic-light Lady - John Martyn, Beverley Martyn
11 Primrose Hill - John Martyn, Beverley Martyn
12 Say What You Can - John Martyn, Beverley Martyn
13 Road to Ruin - John Martyn, Beverley Martyn
14 Go Easy (Take 3)
15 Bless the Weather
16 Head and Heart
17 Singin' in the Rain
18 Glistening Glyndebourne (Alternate Take Previously Unreleased)
19 I'd Rather Be the Devil (Devil Got My Woman)
20 The Easy Blues/Gentle Blues
21 The Man in the Station (Alternate Take #2)
Disc: 2
1 May You Never
2 Solid Air
3 Over the Hill (Alternative Take)
4 Fine Lines
5 Ain't No Saint
6 The Glory of Love
7 Beverly
8 Make No Mistake (Instrumental)
9 One Day Without You
10 Sunday's Child
11 Spencer the Rover
12 You Can Discover
13 Couldn't Love You More
14 One World
15 Smiling Stranger (Alternative Take #2)
16 Small Hours
17 Save Some (For Me)
18 Johnny Too Bad
19 Grace and Danger (Instrumental)
Disc: 3
1 Some People Are Crazy
2 Sweet Little Mystery
3 Baby, Please Come Home
4 Sapphire
5 Over the Rainbow
6 Fisherman's Dream
7 Acid Rain (Andy Lyden Mix)
8 Mad Dog Days (Andy Lyden Mix)
9 Tight Connection to My Heart (Has Anybody Seen My Love)
10 Angeline
11 Piece By Piece (Alternate Take #1)
12 John Wayne (Alternate Take #1)
13 Love of Mine (Alternate Take #1)
14 Serendipity
15 Who Believes in Angels? (Alternate Take #1)
16 The River (Apprentice Version)
17 Deny This Love
18 Lifeline