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JOHN MARTYN: Piece by Piece (Island/MCA).
If you're at all seduced by the mellow musings of the new soul/ jazzers (Sade, Everything But The Girl, Working Week) and or intelligent folk/ rockers like Richard Thompson, John Martyn might be just up your alley. Martyn has been putting out superb records filled with simmering jazz/ folk for years; maybe his time has finally come. Real relaxing stuff, but real smart, too, and for those enticed by odd voices, Martyn sings like he has cotton in his cheeks.

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This Canadian three sentence review was published in The Vancouver Sun of Saturday 7 June 1986.