Level 40
I am guessing that I am the only person who listens to John Martyn at MTC, but that is ok. He is an acquired taste, a genre hopping maverick who made his first album 40 years ago, and someone who has not quite finished yet. The early albums are folky. Then, by 'Bless The Weather', a jazzy experimentation creeps in. aLong with Martyn's unique echoplex guitar technique. Later albums show him dabbling in rock, blues, reggae, white soul, and latterly trip-hop, a genre where he is an unacknowledged founding father. Difficult, often drunk, but always close to brilliant, Martyn has consistently written great songs over the years. I am slowly trying to add all his main canon of albums to the collective (not even counting the many live albums) but it will be a slow process. There is a lot of stuff out there!
1/21/07 8:50pm