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CD: John Martyn - Heaven and Earth
CD: John Martyn - Heaven and Earth
The folk-blues perennial bows out with something flavoursome
Friday, 13 May 2011
The final outing for a British folk original
I've spent the last week feasting on John Martyn via Spotify. He was a gap in my musical education. He turns out, as a large portion of you reading already well know, to be a rich, raw talent. I knew his rep but had a misguided notion he was another blueprint for whiny contemporary singer-songwriters. All that reveals is my own ignorance.
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