John Martyn - Solid Air 1973 (Island Records)

Label : Island Records 

Value :

A really beautiful little record from John Martyn a set in which he's really perfected his talents, and found a way to stand out from just about anyone else in the pack -- including the best of his British folk rock contemporaries! Martyn plays acoustic guitar, but the record's hardly folk at this point -- because his vocals have all these jazzy changes, maybe a bit like Joni Mitchell was hitting at the same point in her career -- more sophisticated, but very organic and never forced -- with this quality that makes just about every word that comes from Martyn's voice resonate with a really fantastic quality. His guitar playing is as wonderful as ever and again, filled with jazzy phrasing without ever being jazz at all and the whole thing is maybe a record to proudly put Martyn in the company of Nick Drake on his few classics for Island. 

Taste :

John Martyn - Don't Want to Know 

John Martyn - Solid Air

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By Electric Looser

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