John's Diary 1960s and 1970s

"Every record I've made - bad, good, or indifferent - is totally autobiographical. I can look back when I hear a record and recall exactly what was going on. That's how I write. That's the only way I can write ! Some people keep diaries, I make records."

Iain David McGeachy was born on the 11th September 1948, the son of two opera singers who divorced when he was five years old. John, as he would later call himself, moved to Glasgow and was brought up by his grandmother. John started to learn how to play the guitar at the age of fifteen being tutored by Hamish Imlach.

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London Conversation		The Tumbler		Stormbringer!		The Road To Ruin		Bless The Weather
Solid Air		Inside Out		Sunday's Child		Live At Leeds		So Far So Good
One World

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London Conversation

1. Fairy Tale Lullaby (J. Martyn)
2. Sandy Grey (R. Fredericks)
3. London Conversation (J. Martyn, J. Sundell)
4. Ballad Of An Elder Woman (J. Martyn)
5. Cocain (Traditional arranged by J. Martyn)
6. Run Honey Run (J. Martyn)
7. Back To Stay (J. Martyn)
8. Rolling Home (J. Martyn)
9. Who's Grown Up Now (J. Martyn)
10. Golden Girl (J. Martyn)
11. This Time (J. Martyn)
12. Don't Think Twice (B. Dylan)

John's debut album was recorded in mono and released in October 1967 when John was 20 years old. The album is in the folk tradition and contains some excellent lyrics and jazzy instrumentation such as the sitar and flute in Rolling Home. As a result it won praise and the instrumentation distinguished John from his contemporaries in the folk scene. Back To Stay is a beautiful love song with a sad and dreamy melody, a sign of things to come !

It is reported that John had only been playing the guitar for a few months when the album was recorded and was influenced by two people in particular that he knew . "Les Brown, who is completely unknown and has never recorded...he plays a kind of American Doc Watson guitar very very well. Lovely voice. Also a friend of mine called Paul Wheeler who is featured on the second album."

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London Conversation - Remastered and Expanded

1. Fairy Tale Lullaby (J. Martyn)
2. Sandy Grey (R. Fredericks)
3. London Conversation (J. Martyn, J. Sundell)
4. Ballad Of An Elder Woman (J. Martyn)
5. Cocain (Traditional arranged by J. Martyn)
6. Run Honey Run (J. Martyn)
7. Back To Stay (J. Martyn)
8. Rolling Home (J. Martyn)
9. Who's Grown Up Now (J. Martyn)
10. Golden Girl (J. Martyn)
11. This Time (J. Martyn)
12. Don't Think Twice (B. Dylan)
13. She Moved Through The Fair (Bonus Track)

Expanded version from Universal Records with one previously unreleased studio out-takes. Released on 7th November 2005 this CD has revised artwork and sleevenotes, however the front cover remains as the original.

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The Tumbler

1. Sing A Song Of Summer (J. Martyn)
2. The River (J. Martyn)
3. Goin' Down To Memphis (J. Martyn)
4. The Gardeners (J. Martyn)
5. A Day At The Sea (J. Martyn)
6. Fishin' Blues (J. Martyn)
7. Dusty (J. Martyn)
8. Hello Train (J. Martyn)
9. Winding Boy (Morton)
10. Fly On Home (J. Martyn, Wheeler)
11. Knuckeldy Crunch And Slippledee Slee Song (J. Martyn)
12. Seven Black Roses (J. Martyn)

John's second album was released in December 1968. Another album in the folk tradition but featuring the jazz flautist Harold McNair, particularly on the romantic Dusty, The Gardeners and Fly On Home. As a young man John stayed with his sister who lived near Hampton Court and the song Dusty was inspired by his happy memories of Hampton Court Fair.

This album was produced by Al Stewart and had more of a sparkle than London Conversation and John said, "The album 'sings' a bit more than before."

Of his first two albums John said, "Those were basically acoustic albums....I got bored with the folk/acoustic thing. You can't keep churning that out, it stifles innovation, kills the personal touch."

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The Tumbler - Remastered

Released on 7th November 2005 by Universal Music with improved artwork and sleevenotes.

The front cover and tracklisting are as the original.

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Stormbringer!

1. Go Out And Get It (J. Martyn)
2. Can't Get The One I Want (B. Martyn)
3. Stormbringer (J. Martyn)
4. Sweet Honesty (B. Martyn)
5. Woodstock (J. Martyn)
6. John The Baptist (J. Martyn)
7. The Ocean (J. Martyn)
8. Traffic-Light Lady (J. Martyn)
9. Tomorrow Time (B. Martyn)
10. Would You Believe Me (J. Martyn)

In 1969 John met and married Beverley Kutner who was making records at the time with Joe Boyd of Witchseason. John was originally hired to be Beverley's backing guitarist for recording sessions. This album was released in February 1970 having been recorded in Woodstock. John was inspired by The Band and the album included Levon Helm on drums. John began to experiment to find a distinctive guitar sound. Would You Believe Me is the stand out track which featured the introduction of the echoplex guitar technique which John pioneered and is still a major part of his gigs today.

John The Baptist / The Ocean was released by Island as a single in January 1970 on the highly collectable 'pink' label. The album was cut in the summer of 1969 under the direction of Paul Harris. Joe Boyd rented John and Beverley a house in Woodstock.

John felt that the album was just a little bit ahead of it's time, saying "...a whole lot came from that record...like people started using drum ideas and stuff, and nobody had really thought of using drums with acoustic instruments before. But it's difficult to say that sort of thing without being conceited."

John said, "It was the year of the festival. We just lived there and worked with Paul Harris very quickly and very briefly and we just went into the studio and did it very one-off, very swift. Levon Helm and Harvey Brooks we met in Woodstock and used them, just because they were friends. It seemed obvious that they should be on it. Dylan lived up the road, and Hendrix lived virtually next door. He used to arrive every Thursday in a purple helicopter, stay the weekend, and leave on the Monday. He was amazing...a good lad."

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Stormbringer! - Remastered and Expanded

Expanded version from Universal Records with four previously unreleased studio out-takes. Released 3rd October 2005 this CD has revised artwork and sleevenotes, however the front cover remains as the original.

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The Road To Ruin

1. Primrose Hill (B. Martyn)
2. Parcels (J. Martyn)
3. Auntie Aviator (J. Martyn, B. Martyn)
4. New Day (J. Martyn)
5. Give Us A Ring (Paul Wheeler)
6. Sorry To Be So Long (J. Martyn, B. Martyn)
7. Tree Green (J. Martyn)
8. Say What You Can (J. Martyn, B. Martyn)
9. Road To Ruin (J. Martyn)

Released in November 1970. John had numerous disagreements with Joe Boyd over the production of this album and, because of the numerous overdubs , John felt that the recording lack spontaneity. The album featured the introduction of the talents of bass player Danny Thompson. There was some discussion as to what to call Say What You Can and in the sleeve notes it is also referred to as Let It Happen.

The Road to Ruin, John explains " is really an adolescents' views of mortality, you know the idea, isn't all fun, we're all doomed but we may as well enjoy it: we're all going one way, but we may as well get down to it while we're here."

"The Road To Ruin stands apart from other John Martyn albums...it enjoys distinctly jazz instrumentation in what is basically a rock format." (Andy Childs, ZigZag No.41)

John stopped gigging for some time and spent an increasing amount of time with his family in their home at Hastings. He was soon to become a father for the second time. After Road To Ruin, Joe Boyd disbanded Witchseason and decided that John and Beverley should record solo albums. Of this quiet period John said, "...we hadn't had a number one single, and Radio One didn't like us, and all that kind of stuff. There wasn't too much interest from the A&R men and the powers that be, so Island said, 'Give him six grand and see what he comes up with'....And that's how the next album, Bless The Weather came about."

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The Road To Ruin - Remastered and Expanded

Expanded version from Universal Records with one previously unreleased studio out-take. Released on 3rd October 2005 this CD has revised artwork and sleevenotes, however the front cover remains as the original.

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Bless The Weather

1. Go Easy (J. Martyn)
2. Bless The Weather (J. Martyn)
3. Sugar Lump (J. Martyn)
4. Walk On The Water (J. Martyn)
5. Just Now (J. Martyn)
6. Head And Heart (J. Martyn)
7. Let The Good Things Come (J. Martyn)
8. Back Down The River (J. Martyn)
9. Glistening Glyndebourne (J. Martyn)
10. Singin' In The Rain (Brown, Freed)

Released in November 1971 "Bless The Weather" was an album of pure, simple but mature songs which John says was 'very innocent, very beautiful and a pleasure to make'. Some of the songs were written in the studio on the day they were recorded, satisfying John's desire to be spontaneous. Danny Thompson provided bass accompaniment and Richard Thompson, Tony Reeves (Colosseum), Ian Whiteman and Roger Powell (Mighty Baby) all played on the album. "Glistening Glyndebourne" showcased John's technique of playing acoustic guitar through the echoplex to stunning effect, although Rolling Stone magazine dismissed the track as "rambling !"

"A masterpiece...John continues to stay several steps in front of his contemporaries with tracks like 'Glistening Glyndebourne !" (Sounds 27/11/71)

"Most of the songs on Bless The Weather were very quick. I'd been writing songs in the studio on the day they were recorded. It's much nicer like that...to be spontaneous. There was no re-writing, it just came out very naturally. I much prefer that approach," said John, "People kind of sat up and took notice of me after that album, I don't know why..."

"Without elaborating on Bless The Weather too much, let me say that it is a fabulous album, quite definitely one of the very best of 1971, and one which you should spare no amount of trouble over to possess. Every song is a gem..." (Andy Childs, ZigZag No.41)

"Glistening Glyndebourne, seven and a half minutes of heat shimmering instrumental." (Dark Star)

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Bless The Weather - Remastered and Expanded

Expanded version from Universal Records with five previously unreleased studio out-takes and the single version of May You Never. Released on 7th November 2005 this CD has revised artwork and sleevenotes, however the front cover remains as the original.

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Solid Air

1. Solid Air (J. Martyn)
2. Over The Hill (J. Martyn)
3. Don't Want To Know (J. Martyn)
4. I'd Rather Be The Devil (S. James)
5. Go Down Easy (J. Martyn)
6. Dreams By The Sea (J. Martyn)
7. May You Never (J. Martyn)
8. The Man In The Station (J. Martyn)
9. The Easy Blues (J. Martyn)

Released in February 1973 and regarded by many as the John Martyn album. The title track was written for friend and peer Nick Drake and concerned Drake's mental strife at the time. (Drake took his own life the following year, a great loss to John personally, and to music generally). Adventurous, dynamic, with a rare depth and power, the album demonstrated John's slurred vocal style, reaching the state where it became fully integrated into the overall sound as an improvisational instrument used for it's colors of tone, something John has always aimed for. Musicians included Danny Thompson, Richard Thompson, John 'Rabbit' Bundrick, Dave Pegg, Dave Mattacks and Simon Nicol.

John said, "Now Solid Air... I really like the title track. It was done for a friend of mine [Nick Drake], and it was done right with very clear motives, and I'm very pleased with it, for varying reasons. It has got a very simple message, but you'll have to work that one out for yourself."

May You Never / Just Now was released by Island as a single in November 1971. This early version of the later album track featured drums and Paul Kossof of free on the guitar. John didn't like the way the track was turning out and left the producer "Robin somebody or other" to overdub and put it together. According to John it, "sold four copies." The album sold well in the UK and America.

"A great album...as a single overall expression 'Solid Air' flows beautifully and shows the entire spectrum of music that John Martyn has at his fingertips." (Sounds 7/4/73)

"Solid Air...if I had to decide, would probably rank as my favourite of the whole lot." (Andy Childs, ZigZag No.41)

"Solid Air shines out like a beacon in the darkness." (Pippin)

"Once in a while you hear a song that finds its way deep into your memory, and you find yourself humming along. This album has more than its share of fine songs like that, but noticeably Go Down Easy and May You Never." (Pippin)

"With mellow jazzy flourishes and warm acoustic sounds, Solid Air is the musical equivalent of a reassuring hug...the man Beth Orton calls The Guv'nor achieved the impossible: he made a quiveringly sexy folk record." - (Q, 1999 voting Solid Air as one of the best chill-out albums of all time)

Many of these songs were used for the soundtrack to the film Titanic Town in 1999.

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Solid Air - Deluxe Edition 2CD

Universal Music released this Deluxe version on 25th May 2009.

CD1 (Remastered original album)

1. Solid Air
2. Over The Hill
3. Don't Want To Know
4. I'd Rather Be The Devil
5. Go Down Easy
6. Dreams By The Sea
7. May You Never
8. The Man In The Station
9. The Easy Blues / Gentle Blues

CD2 (Out takes, demo and live)

1. Solid Air (Alternative Take)
2. Over The Hill (Alternative Take)
3. Don't Want To Know (Alternative Take)
4. I'd Rather Be The Devil (Alternative Take)
5. Go Down Easy (Alternative Take)
6. Dreams By The Sea (Alternative Take)
7. May You Never (Alternative Take)
8. The Man In The Station (Alternative Take)
9. The Easy Blues/Gentle Blues (Alternative Take)
10. Keep On
11. Never Say Never (Demo)
12. In The Evening
13. May You Never (Single Version)
14. The Easy Blues (Live in Paris)
15. May You Never (Live in Paris)
16. I'd Rather Be The Devil (Live in Paris)

Universal Music Press Release, "Compiled, with John Martyn's blessing, by John Hillarby from the official John Martyn website and with sleeve notes by Record Collector's Daryl Easlea, Martyn's landmark album from 1973 has now been digitally remastered and expanded into a  two CD set. Disc One contains the original album, considered by many to be his best album, digitally remastered and sounding better than ever. Disc Two contains twelve previously unreleased out-takes, three live tracks and the 7" single version of "May You Never".

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Inside Out

1. Fine Lines (J. Martyn)
2. Eibhli Ghail Chiuin Ni Chearbhaill (Traditional arranged by J. Martyn)
3. Ain't No Saint (J. Martyn)
4. Outside In (J. Martyn)
5. The Glory Of Love (B. Hill)
6. Look In (J. Martyn)
7. Beverley (J. Martyn)
8. Make No Mistake (J. Martyn)
9. Ways To Cry (J. Martyn)
10. So Much In Love With You (J. Martyn)

Released in October 1973. John described Inside Out as "everything I ever wanted to do in music... it's my inside coming out." The album was experimental, a skillfully free-form jazz orientated album featuring superb guitar work by John and superbly varied bass playing from Danny Thompson. Other musicians included Traffic's Steve Winwood and Chris Wood, Bobby Keyes and Remi Kabaka. The intensive recording sessions were largely late at night with no cutting, editing or splicing. It was "live" and tracks were faded out where necessary. The album won John a Golden Disc from Montreaux. Considered by critics as a "cosmic foray." At the time John explained that Inside Out was all about the concept of love...

"It felt natural", said John at the beginning of the track Fine Lines.

"I think I'll always use Danny Thompson because he's got real feel for my music and I've got real feel for his."

"A celebration of love - his playing has reached an uplifting intensity, the equal of anything on offer at present...I unreservedly recommend it !" (Melody Maker 13/10/73)

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Inside Out - Remastered and Expanded

1. Fine Lines
2. Eibi Gheal Chiuin Ni Chearbhaill
3. Ain't No Saint
4. Outside In
5. Glory Of Love
6. Look In
7. Beverley
8. Make No Mistake
9. Ways To Cry
10. So Much In Love With You
11. Beverley/Make No Mistake (BBC Radio One, Sounds of the Seventies, October 1973)
12. Fine Lines (BBC Radio One, Sounds of the Seventies, October 1973)
13. Eibhli Ghail Chiuin Ni Chearbhail (BBC Radio One, Sounds of the Seventies, October 1973)
14. Outside In (BBC Radio One, Sounds of the Seventies, May 1973)

Released by Universal Music on 7th November 2005 with five bonus songs performed in 1973 for the BBC. Revised and improved artwork with sleevenotes, the front cover is as the orignal release.

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Sunday's Child

1. One Day Without You (J. Martyn)
2. Lay It All Down (J. Martyn)
3. Root Love (J. Martyn)
4. My Baby Girl (J. Martyn)
5. Sunday's Child (J. Martyn)
6. Spencer The Rover (Traditional arranged by J. Martyn)
7. Clutches (J. Martyn)
8. The Message (J. Martyn)
9. Satisfied Mind (Traditional arranged by J. Martyn)
10. You Can Discover (J. Martyn)
11. Call Me Crazy (J. Martyn)

 

Released in January 1975 and recorded and mixed during August 1974 at Island Studios. The sessions were short but intensive, producing songs of considerable contrasts from the boogie of Clutches, to the traditional folk song of Spencer The Rover. The overall feel of the album is one of contentment and John called it 'the family album, very happy purely romantic...a nice period', an impression borne out by My Baby Girl, which featured Beverley on vocals for the last time.

The Message is a very underrated song and worthy of more attention than it gets. Many of the songs such as One Day Without You, Lay It All Down and You Can Discover are pure emotion and romanticism. My Baby Girl and Spencer The Rover are dedicated to two of John's children.

"Simply one of the best British albums made in the 1970's...it just seems to get better all the time..." (ZigZag 3/77)

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Sunday's Child - Remastered and Expanded

Released by Universal Music on 7th November 2005 with seven bonus songs, the previously unreleased Ellie Rhee, an alternative mix of Satisfied Mind and five songs performed in 1975 for the BBC. Revised and improved artwork with sleevenotes.

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Live At Leeds

 

1. Outside In (J. Martyn)
2. Solid Air (J. Martyn)
3. Make No Mistake (J. Martyn)
4. Bless The Weather (J. Martyn)
5. The Man In The Station (J. Martyn)
6. I'd Rather Be The Devil. (J. Martyn)

 

John toured extensively in 1975 with Danny Thompson, John Stevens on drums and Paul Kossoff on guitar. A full-blooded and uncompromising concert at Leeds University was recorded with a view to releasing a live album, but Island weren't keen so John produced, designed and sold "Live At Leeds" mail-order from his Hastings home. Kossoff had been out of the music scene for some time with self-inflicted health problems before John invited him to play. Apparently his playing was so erratic that it had to be cut from the recording.

The limited edition of 10,000 quickly sold out. Many of the albums were numbered and personally signed by John, making this a real collector's album. Even John himself has no copy, "I sold them all... I was the first of the record independents !". "It was great. Terribly hard work though...I would never do it again. The only way to do it would be to hire people to take care of everything; it was just too difficult for me and Bev. It didn't help matters either when there was a three week delay between the time EMI said they'd deliver the albums and the time they actually arrived."

The album confirmed his reputation as a witty and original stage performer with a wicked line in banter and repartee, and this, coupled with excellent album reviews, was bringing John Martyn the audience that was to stay with him for years to come.

"Live At Leeds is an excellent album... a very honest and straightforward representation (colourful language included) of a typical John Martyn concert at a time when he was accompanied by the excellent Danny Thompson on bass and John Stevens on drums." (ZigZag 3/77)

Acting as producer and distributor took it's toll on John and suffering from nervous exhaustion he didn't play for months after the tour taking a sabbatical for four months in Jamaica whee he was to meet Lee 'Scratch' Perry.

The recent reissue of Live At Leeds (One World Records, 1998) includes 5 bonus tracks with Paul Kossoff playing guitar - My Baby Girl, You Can Discover, So Much In Love With You, Clutches and Mailman.

Live at Leeds Deluxe Edition (Released 6th September 2010)

For the first time ever the entire concert was released as it was originally recorded on the night.

This superb concert is supplemented by additional songs from rehearsals, including much tomfoolery as you would expect, including Paul Kossoff attempting to play Danny Thompson's double bass! Outstanding sound quality and deluxe packaging makes it a fantastic release. Not without its surprises though as we discover in the sleeve notes that the original album was not all recorded in Leeds!

The tracklisting is-

CD1

1. May You Never
2. Outside In
3. Spencer The Rover
4. Make No Mistake
5. Bless The Weather
6. My Baby Girl
7. You Can Discover
8. Solid Air

CD2

1. I'd Rather Be The Devil
2. So Much In Love With You
3. Clutches
4. Mailman 
5. May You Never (Rehearsal)
6. The Message (Rehearsal)
7. Outside In (Rehearsal)
8. The Man In The Station (Rehearsal)
9. Head And Heart (Rehearsal)
10. Clutches (Rehearsal)

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So Far So Good

1. May You Never (J. Martyn)
2. Bless The Weather (J. Martyn)
3. Head And Heart (J. Martyn)
4. Over The Hill (J. Martyn)
5. Spencer The Rover (Traditional arranged by J. Martyn)
6. Glistening Glyndebourne (J. Martyn)
7. Solid Air (J. Martyn)
8. One Day Without You (J. Martyn)
9. I'd Rather Be The Devil (live) (Skip James)

Released on 4th March 1977. This compilation album included a live version of I'd Rather Be The Devil. John disagreed with the choice of tracks but was too busy recording One World to get involved. The album sold well, earning John a Gold Disc, which he tried to smash on more than one occasion, in disgust ! Over The Hill / Head And Heart was released as a single on 25th February 1977. In an attempt to secure more air play for the single, a DJ Copy was recorded with the words 'Sweet Cocaine' being cut and replaced with 'Dry Champagne.'

On 20th February John had apparently broken the box office record at New Victoria Theatre with over 500 people standing !

So Far So Good, "...marks the end of his first decade as a professional musician, and spans his eight album career with Island." (NME 1977)

"I sincerely believe there isn't a singer/songwriter that can hold a candle to him in terms of innovation and imagination." (John Hamblett NME 24/2/77)

John toured extensively in 1977.

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One World

1. Couldn't Love You More (J. Martyn)
2. Certain Surprise (J. Martyn)
3. Dancing (J. Martyn)
4. Small Hours (J. Martyn)
5. Dealer (J. Martyn)
6. One World (J. Martyn)
7. Smiling Stranger (J. Martyn)
8. Big Muff (Lee Perry, J. Martyn)

 

Released in November 1977. One World was critically acclaimed, was commercially accessible and sold well, charting at number 54. It contains a variety of styles and moods from the dubbed Big Muff co-written with Lee Perry, to the incredibly romantic Couldn't Love You More which has been reworked and recorded many times since and is still a great favourite with his fans. The album closes with the mesmerising "Small Hours", a 'live' echoplex excursion featuring a flock of Canadian geese ! One of the all time great chill-out tracks which was later adapted and re-recorded as Anna for the Australian feature film In Search of Anna. Unfortunately a sound track was never released, but a small number of live performance tapes featuring Anna are in existence.

"Guaranteed to chill your spine." (Melody Maker 10/12/77)

"Martyn's labours on Island culminated with One World...that shifted his earlier crystalline sound into a deeper, more liquid encounter. Accompanied by Danny Thompson's resonant bass and a superb lineup of Island musicians, Martyn's expressive voice had matured via a wide range of circumstance. There were still moments of joyous sensitivity." - Magnet

"One World looks like a work of importance and beauty, sounds even better and there's no finer place to start to develop an addiction for the man who may be England's brightest light in the musical starfield, nobody else comes near to John's coherence in expressing the flux of spirit and the voice of emotion, he's simply the guv'nor." (Steve Burgess Dark Star)

"First encounters of the best kind - the day you hear' One World'...A John Martyn Masterpiece" (Island Advertisement)

"You might not be in the market for a new Lamborghini or a flash apartment in Berkeley Square but there's always 'One World'...A John Martyn Masterpiece." Island Advertisement)

John used a Rhythm Doctor: a drum machine winking through the mist of Small Hours and One World. He got more flack for that: "People thought it was so funny, that this geezer would walk onstage with a glorified metronome. They could not see that it was in fact a bass drum, with a kick drum at the top. A lot of the things I used to fiddle about with confused people at first." - The Wire

Island released Dancing / Dealer as a single in January 1978.

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One World Deluxe Edition (released 1st November 2004)

CD1

1. Dealer (J. Martyn)
2. One World (J. Martyn)
3. Smiling Stranger (J. Martyn)
4. Big Muff (Lee Perry, J. Martyn)
5. Couldn't Love You More (J. Martyn)
6. Certain Surprise (J. Martyn)
7. Dancing (J. Martyn)
8. Small Hours (J. Martyn)

CD2

   1.   Certain Surprise
   2.   Couldn't Love You More
   3.   One World
   4.   Dealer
   5.   Small Hours
   6.   Black Man At Your Shoulder
   7.   Dealer - 1st alternate take
   8.   One World - alternate version
   9.   Smiling Stranger - instrumental
   10.  Big Muff - alternate version with drums
   11.  Certain Surprise - alternate version
   12.  Dancing - alternate version
   13.  Big Muff - drum machine version
   14.  Dealer - 2nd alternate version
   15.  Small Hours - instrumental version

The first five songs are live from Regents Park, London in Summer 1978. A very well put together package and very well remastered.

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