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Solid Air - Half Speed Mastered - Sealed

JOHN MARTYN Solid Air (2016 UK/EU limited edition 9-track LP Half Speed Mastered at Abbey Road Studios by Miles Showell. The classic 1973 album now pressed on 180-gram high quality vinyl, complete with replica labels and Abbey Road certificate. Gatefold picture sleeve with series obi, factory sealed)

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Release Date 6th May 2016
Release Year 2016 - 8 years ago
Condition Unless stated otherwise in the description above, all items are in at least excellent condition - so please read our descriptions carefully. We try to sell items as close to Mint condition as possible, and many will indeed be close to brand new and/or unplayed. Others may be 'used' - and all will meet our strict grading and are 100% guaranteed.
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Format vinyl LP album (LP record)
Record Label Island / Universal
Complete Stock List Go to John Martyn
Product Catalogue No ARHSLP003
Music Genre Male Solo, 70s Artists, Blues, Folk, Singer/Songwriter, 70s Rock
Country Comes from UK Comes from 'UK'
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Tracklisting & More Information

By 1973, John Martyn - still at the tender age of 25 - had racked up five albums (two with then wife, Beverly). At the age of 17 his jazzy folk had caught the ear of Chris Blackwell of Island records and while he was a favourite on the club circuit prevalent in those far off days, he had yet to really define his sound. Solid Air changed all that for good. The real breakthrough in Martyn's sound had really come with the previous album, 'Bless The Weather'. The reasons were threefold: Firstly he'd joined forces with a man with whom he'd be linked for decades to come - ex-Pentangle bass player, Danny Thompson. Danny's double bass profundities were the perfect accompaniment to John's fine finger picking. The second was the adoption of the Echoplex tape delay machine as his weapon of choice when it came to laying down the smoky, fuzzy vibe that made Martyn such a smoker's choice in years to come. The third was his voice. Maybe by this point he'd done enough smoking (and drinking) to really let the slurry, laid back delivery kick in, but suddenly the combination of the modal picking and almost horizontal attitude made perfect sense.

Above all this was folk filtered through jazz. Take the inclusion of Tony Coe on sax throughout. His own slurred delivery was second to none (his was the sax on those Henry Mancini Pink Panther themes). Martyn, himself, was a fan of artists like Pharaoh Sanders, and it was this combined with the finest in British folk rock (most of Fairport Convention, including Richard Thompson, make an appearance here) that lifted 'Solid Air' above previous efforts. The album kicks off with Martyn's lament for close friend Nick Drake on the vibe and sax-assisted title track. On the way we get the bluegrass jauntiness of 'Over The Hill' (with its famously positive reference to Martyn's favourite pastimes); the voguishly pastoral 'Don't Want To Know', the Echoplex frenzy of his version of Skip James' 'Rather be The Devil', and the eerily mournful 'Man In The Station' (showing Martyn to be a master of the autobiographical soul-bearing that was to riddle his later album 'Grace And Danger'). Of course the one track that most remember here is May You Never - his paean to brotherly love that was to be a staple of every performance he's given since. Yes, it's a classic with not a note out of place.. And ably assisted by John Wood's late night production it's now firmly esconced in the hearts of chillers, smokers and music lovers the world over. Everyone needs a copy.

Side A
1. Solid Air
2. Over The Hill
3. Don't Want To Know
4. I'd Rather Be The Devil

Side B
1. Go Down Easy
2. Dreams By The Sea
3. May You Never
4. The Man In The Station
5. The Easy Blues

LP RECORD  
Recording Artist John Martyn
Product Title Solid Air - Half Speed Mastered - Sealed
Product Information John Martyn Solid Air - Half Speed Mastered - Sealed UK vinyl LP album (LP record).
Language All tracks are sung in English, unless otherwise stated in our description.
Additional info Deleted - A deleted or out-of-print item is one that is no longer manufactured. However, we stock thousands of out-of-print formats and we specialise in tracking down out-of-print, deleted and hard-to-find releases.
Artists Related To Beverley, Beverley Martyn, John & Beverley Martyn
Product Barcode 602547558978
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