Inside Out – Island ILPS 9253
An album made with love and care.
An album made with love and care.
Difficult to categorise this musician, except to say that he works in touches of blues, of folk, of the olde-worlde traditional sort of material.
01 Nov 1973
To those critics who demand pigeon-holes, John Martyn is a 'folk guitarist'. He plays mostly acoustic guitars and sings songs. And makes remarkable records, using jazz musicians, African drummers and anyone else he thinks appropriate. His latest (and seventh) album, Inside Out, has just been released by Island. Before that was Solid Air, which is one of Dave Dyke's favourite records. So we asked Dave to talk to John for Guitar.
A lesser man might have taken his audience slowly, by easy stages, through from his acoustic beginnings onto his electronic now. After all, moving from wooden sounds to solid state electricity has always been a hard road, and has floored many a great talent before him, who has had to wait a while until his audience catches up with him.
IT'S AN ENCOURAGING sign of recognition that a John Martyn concert can be advertised as sold-out a week before it takes place.
JOHN MARTYN has more musical riches than most of the people from the Top 10 put together.
Two acoustic tracks with Danny Thompson recorded in BBC London studio.
13 Oct 1973
Found myself talking to John Martyn over the phone this week. I still don't know why. They phoned me up and said the interview's cancelled, can you do it over the phone?
13 Oct 1973
JOHN MARTYN, Sunday Colour supplement smart in a white three-piece suit, is sitting in a newly-painted Sunday Colour supplement shining room in Island Records offices.