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Post by bencat on Apr 23, 2024 14:29:08 GMT
I have been a huge John Martyn fan since early in his career seen him live about ten or so times with often mixed results depending on his state of sobriety or drug intake . When he is in good form he flies and you are taken to another place . When he is bad he can be awful . Now this is a bit of a cheat as it is two tracks but they are both from the same session . Transatlantic Sessions was as series made by BBC and Canadian TV presenter by Aly Bain and featured artists from UK , IS , and Canada collaborating over folk tunes and their own material . John featured in the first and second series . In the first one he performs older material May You Never , Sold Air and Spencer the Rover . These are all good but the CD for that series are almost impossible to find or expensive . They are though on Tidal not sure about Qobuz or Spotify . But on the second series John sings two tracks from his Church With One Bell album which is a covers album and for me just magic . On this session he does He,s Got All The Whisky with Eddie Reader and Mister Mister the Ben Harper song . Both are just stunning and obviously lived performances the arrangement and singing is just amazing and shows when clean John is truly great vocalist with a very distinctive sound . If you get the chance give these a listen . I managed to get a copy of both these CD,s so they are now in my Library but I did play them on Tidal as well . Bonus in buying the CD was that James Grant another favourite of mine gives a great version of his song Cure for Life I think accompanied by Emmy Lou Harris which is never a bad thing .
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Post by MikeMusic on Apr 23, 2024 14:34:29 GMT
No Transatlantic on Qobuz but Church with one bell added to playlist......
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Post by bencat on Apr 23, 2024 14:49:02 GMT
Mike try a search for Aly Bain as he was the presenter of the series . On Tidal when I used his name and clicked albums they were all listed . Sorry not really used Qobuz so not sure how the search works .
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Post by MikeMusic on Apr 23, 2024 15:36:51 GMT
Closest on Q is Aly Bain and friends
Transatlantic is on YouTube though
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Post by Slinger on Apr 23, 2024 17:38:37 GMT
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Post by bencat on Apr 24, 2024 7:54:41 GMT
Slightly frustrated now as I bought the Volume one CD from Discogs but when it arrived the cover was for Volume one but the CD inside was Volume two which I already have . Sent a message to the seller and will see what I get back . In the mean time I will look around on e-bay and else where for another copy .
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Post by Tim on Apr 24, 2024 10:04:33 GMT
I have been a huge John Martyn fan since early in his career . . . . Snap.
Emmylou Harris too
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