I'd Rather Be The Devil (Special Edition)
The Bottom Line:
Permanent put together a lot of material. What's new? The box.
Permanent put together a lot of material. What's new? The box.
Two CDs of bootleg live material.
Tracks 1-14 recorded at the July Wakes Festival, Charnock Richard, Chorley, 25 July 1976.
Tracks 15-17 recorded at Kennys Castaways, New York, 19 June 1977.
Another restored live tape.
Live at the Garrison Theatre, Lerwick, 12 August 1980.
Time Away at full length and May You Never mystery solved.
One of the last folk performances.
Voiceprint produces another useless compilation.
Couldn't Love You More, No Little Boy, Live At Leeds, Kendal 1986.
A rerelease of material that John did not want to be released with a bonus.
The bonus tracks are both from Live At Bristol 1991 so from the same period; Couldn't Love You More and Never Let Me Go.
Fine rerelease of genuine classic with interesting bonus material.
The outtakes are not as good as the remastered songs, though.
Voiceprint throws in an unreleased bonus track: Amsterdam.
"Over 70 minutes of John Martyn from the One World catalogue"
Vintage German radio recording of outstanding quality.