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Scottish Dubliner Posted Sun 01 Mar, 2009 11:52 PM |
You know how much I keep going on about this guy so...
John Martyn Live in Dublin from '87 is on RTE1 now.
Dubz
*edit* Solid Air was written for Nick Drake, I never knew that. |
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Nell Posted Mon 02 Mar, 2009 3:52 PM |
I never heard anything of him before - I think.
But I heard James Morrison singing "May you never" - it was beautiful.
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Scottish Dubliner Posted Mon 02 Mar, 2009 4:07 PM |
I just listened to Morrison's version on Youtube... Hmm not impressed to be honest but it's not the easiest song to cover.
Morrison also does not help his case by calling him an English guy at the start, He was Scots, he may have lived the last few years in Kilkenny, Ireland but he was Scots through and through.
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Nell Posted Mon 02 Mar, 2009 5:01 PM |
Well I skipped the whole talking part...but Ireland is not England either...right? So wrong in both ways...
As I said I don't really know John Martyn...
is there anything you can commend for a first-time-listener? or most famouse songs (maybe I recognise them from the radio)
At least the song, J.Morrison coverd sounded nice to me :) |
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Scottish Dubliner Posted Tue 03 Mar, 2009 12:19 AM |
Nell wrote:
As I said I don't really know John Martyn...
is there anything you can commend for a first-time-listener? or most famouse songs (maybe I recognise them from the radio)
There is absolutely tons of stuff out there and pretty much all of it is good, a starting point may be Serendipity - an Introduction to John Martyn it's a sorta greatest hits compilation thingy. It's also quite cheap in most record stores...
After that I'd check out, Solid Air(1973) & One World (1977) which are my two favourite albums they are sorta "chill out indie" stuff. And still sound fresh even by todays standards
 
Links to some tracks...
Cocain
Run Honey Run
Solid Air
Don't want to Know
May You Never
Eibhli Ghail Chiuin Ni Chearbhail
Outside In
One day Without You
Spencer the Rover
Call me Crazy
The Dealer
Big Muff
Couldn't Love You More
Certain Surprise
Sweet Little Mystery
Johnny Too Bad
Saphire & Over the Rainbow
and last but not least Small Hours
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