01 Nov 2008
Prompted by the release of a career-retrospective boxed set, Johnny Black talks four decades' music making with John Martyn
John is filmed and interviewed during the recording of Sapphire, at Compass Point studios, Nassau, Bahamas
After devoting many years to folkiedom and a certain amount of inevitable navel gazing, John Martyn found out he'd rather spend more time searching out the fret board of his electric guitar and less gawking at his soul.
01 Aug 1979
Welcome… at last, to Northern Ireland's first major folk festival!
01 Dec 1977
I once saw a girl absolutely cream some poor bastard with a John Martyn record. He'd whispered some lewd suggestion in her ear and she just whipped around and gave him a tremendous shot in the temple with a copy of So Far So Good.
The whole affair actually began, to my sudden surprise, at 7:30 pm Sunday when John Martyn stepped on stage.
Considering the allure of his releases in the early '80s, Scotland's John Martyn comes up surprisingly shallow on his latest release
