Track Listing

1. One Day Without You
2. Lay It All Down
3. Root Love
4. My Baby Girl
5. Sunday's Child
6. Spencer The Rover
7. Clutches
8. The Message
9. Satisfied Mind
10. You Can Discover
11. Call Me Crazy
12. Ellie Rae
13. Satisfied Mind
14. One Day Without You
15. You Can Discover
16. My Baby Girl
17. The Message
18. Spencer The Rover

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #32196 in Music
• Released on: 2005-11-14
• Number of discs: 1
• Formats: Original recording remastered, Extra tracks
• Dimensions: .22 pounds
• Running time: 62 minutes

CD Description
John Martyn was on a hot streak in the early 1970s. SOLID AIR and INSIDE OUT, both from 1973, are among Martyn's strongest efforts, and '74's Sunday'S CHILD is as good as its predecessors. By '74, Martyn was learning to synthesize his early Britfolk roots with his more experimental tendencies, resulting in a combination of introspective singer-songwriter fare and sonic adventurousness.
Sunday'S CHILD bounces around between jazzy ditties ("My Baby Girl"), funky workouts ("Root Love"), gentle folk ("Lay It All Down"), and the artist's trademark ethereal blues (the title track). Martyn's songs are invariably emotion-charged, and while his style-hopping and use of effects keeps things varied, it never dispersesthe focus of the album. The remastered version, with its seven previously unreleased bonus tracks, makes an already strong album even stronger.

Customer Reviews

'Sunday's Child' is full of grace

John Martyn's 1974 album carries on the fine run of classic early/mid severties albums which mark him out as a rare talent. A talent which has never grown dim despite the passing decades of emotional and physical decline which has seen him suffer Brendan Behan-esque alcohol induced torments.
Hopefully life in the Irish countryside might provide him with an anchor to cling on to.
Back to the album: It flows through the speakers like an aural river....deep and dark. Dappled with sunlight and clouds. As a guitarist Martyn is an alchemist. Tossing fire laced with honey from strings stretched to breaking point.
Sunday morning...strong coffee,newspapers and John Martyn. What more could you ask for ?

Under-rated brilliance
A truly great album from the now sadly deceased John Martyn. There will never be the likes of him again, but at least we can glory in these fabulous albums. This album in particular is sadly under-rated, containing as it does, the genius of Spencer the Rover, Sunday's Child and the immense Lay it All Down with Danny Thompson on bass. Heart on sleeve just doesn't convey the emotion. Genius.

A temporary step back
"Sunday's child" is a bit of a disappointment after the glory of its predecessor "Inside out". To be sure, there are some great tracks here, like "One day without you", "My baby girl" and "Spencer the rover", but the album just doesn't have the impact the earlier albums had. It occurred to me that quite a few of the songs on this album just don't speak to me as clearly as those on earlier albums. There are two tracks, "Root love" and "Clutches", which point to Martyn's future where there's more room for electric guitar, but they don't seem to fit easily here.

This edition, like many recent remastered albums, has some welcome bonus tracks on offer, the last 5 of which recorded live for Radio One.

"Sunday's child" may suggest a lucky guy (and apparently John was born on a sunday), but the album itself is less lucky - to be standing between the towering and powerful "Inside out" and "One world" means a life in the shade.