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Stormbringer! - Island ILPS 9113

1 Mar 1970
Record Song Book
Anonymous

Some time ago we were mightily impressed with an album called The Tumbler by a Glasgow-born folksinger/ guitarist named JOHN MARTYN. John, a quiet sensitive boy, wrote gentle songs of love and birds, flowers and trees, and he sang them to his guitar as he travelled the country. Then he met Beverley who came from Coventry and who also sang pretty songs. They fell in love, married, and now they're making music together. All of which brings us to this new album Stormbringer on Island ILPS 9113. It's by John and Beverley and it's an attention-grabber from beginning to end.

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Stormbringer!

My Kind Of Folk

BBC Radio 1
4 Jun 1969
nr track by/ with time
01 The Easy Blues Jelly Roll Morton 2:42
02 Fairy Tale Lullaby J. Martyn 2:38

This is a rare and early version of The Easy Blues as it would not surface on record until four years later, on Solid Air.
The material was identified by Alan Bershaw in 2017.

Credits: 
Producer: Frances Line
Host: Hamish Imlach
Tracks: 
  1. The Easy Blues
  2. Fairy Tale Lullaby

Country Meets Folk (4)

BBC Radio 1
24 May 1969

No tapes have been preserved.

This fourth show was broadcast Saturday 24 May 1969, 13:00 on BBC Radio 1 England. We don't know what John played.
Other musical guests were Pete Stanley and Brian Golbey, Hamish Imlach, Johnny and the Tumbleweeds and Brian Brocklehurst.

Country Meets Folk was an old Light Programme show and first aired in July 1967. It was a replacement for the half hour A Cellar Full Of Folk.
Both programmes were produced by Ian Grant. Host was Wally Whyton, assisted by Jim Lloyd who presented the folk and country news.

Credits: 
Host: Wally Whyton
Producer: Ian Grant

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