09 Jan 2021
This poster reminded me of the fun people used to have at the John Martyn gatherings in the North. After one year of isolation and cancellations, it really feels like we are missing something here. My wife and I have excellent memories of the Januari meetings in the Clutha and we were planning to come to Yorkshire in June. But all that went under in the corona waves and subsequent lockdowns.
We had come, most of us, to pay homage to and enjoy the results of a 26-year career, spanning 21 albums.
John is filmed and interviewed during the recording of Sapphire, at Compass Point studios, Nassau, Bahamas
"The first one's for you," John Martyn told the capacity audience at Her Majesty's Theatre on Tuesday as he ripped into a song which has become almost his signature tune, May You Never.
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.
Hij was net zo'n grote als Nick Drake en Tim Buckley, maar bij het grote publiek is John Martyn nooit zo bekend geworden.
Jonathan Futrell meets John Martyn, a folk troubadour who is still one of Britain's best-kept secrets
Something strangely prophetic happened to the much younger John Martyn when he opened for Charles Mingus and Weather Report at The Bijou Club.
A large contingent of the audience at tonight's secret gig in a north London student hall are clearly less than familiar with JOHN MARTYN - both the music and the man.
The Road To Ruin, on the other hand, shows Martyn emerging as a more distinctive talent, and marked the beginning of his fascination with jazz, which has played a large part in his subsequent career.
John Martyn's latest album, So Far So Good, is an up-and-coming winner says WRPL (1540-AM) disc jockey Bruce Plaskoff.
From the moment he slurred "Good evening, Shepherd's Bush" it seemed likely John Martyn was half-cut. His crapulence has always been part of the deal, and it seems to lubricate his genius. And he's an affable drunk; a big-hearted bear of a man who never seems to get a sore head. You can't help but like him.
A shadowy figure from Sandy Denny's early life is Theo Johnson, immortalised in her song 'Next Time Around' as 'Theo the sailor who sings in his lair'.
Two men whose music was bred in the folk and blues clubs of London and Europe in the 60s are coming to Australia next month to tour together.
If you kissed the sun right out of the sky for me
and told me every lie I might deserve
if you lay all night in the rain for me
I could not love you more
I never could love you more
I could not love you more
I never could love you more
Welcome
back, John
