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Singer/songwriter Christopher Brant Anderson returns with stunningly beautiful new album
Few artists capture the folksy warmth and rain-swept beauty of the Pacific Northwest as eloquently as singer/songwriter Christopher Brant Anderson. Anderson's supple acoustic guitars speak a language all of their own. Whether they're striving for campfire intimacy or bristling with a melancholic ache, they live and breathe and cast an indelible spell. On his latest album ...
Various Artists: Johnny Boy Would Love This…A Tribute to John Martyn
by John Kelman
With the release of Heaven and Earth (Hole in the Rain, 2011), it seems that the world has heard the last of John Martyn, who passed away in 2009 a few months shy of his 61st birthday. This most personal of singer/songwriters has left a remarkable legacy, and while Johnny Boy Would Love This...A Tribute to ...
John and Beverley Martyn: The Road To Ruin
by Chris May
John and Beverley MartynThe Road To RuinUniversal/Island2005 (1970) The posthumous release of guitarist/vocalist/songwriter John Martyn's Heaven And Earth (Hole In The Rain, 2011)--the basic tracks extensively overdubbed, though not edited, by producers Garry Pollitt and Jim Tullio following Martyn's death in 2009--is welcome. Compositionally, it is not ...
John Martyn: Heaven and Earth
by John Kelman
In a world filled with happiness and hurt, there's a gaping chasm between those that are aware and those that aren't. When John Martyn passed away months before his 60th birthday in 2009, the world lost one of the most painfully confessional singer/songwriters of the past half century. “Some people keep diaries," said Phil Cunningham in ...
Christine Tobin and Liam Noble: Unraveling Tapestry
by Bruce Lindsay
Christine Tobin is an uncompromising singer whose distinctive voice has graced the British jazz scene since the mid-1990s. Whether singing her own songs or interpreting the work of others, Tobin brings a unique sensibility to each number; creating atmospheric and, at times, emotionally intense performances. Liam Noble, one of the UK's most original jazz pianists, has ...
May You Never - The Very Best Of John Martyn
By John Martyn
Label: Challenge Jazz
Released: 2009
John Martyn Respected British Singer-Songwriter Dies
John Martyn, 60, a British singer-songwriter whose soulful songs were covered by Eric Clapton and others, died Thursday, according to a statement on Martyn’s official website. It did not give a cause of death for the musician, who lived in Ireland. A skilled guitarist and earthy vocalist influenced by folk, blues and jazz, Martyn performed with ...
The Man Upstairs - In Concert In Germany 1978
By John Martyn
Label: Challenge Jazz
Released: 2007
