Track Listing

1. Primrose Hill
2. Parcels
3. Auntie Aviator - Joe Boyd, John Martyn, Paul Harris, Beverley Martyn
4. New Day
5. Give Us A Ring - Joe Boyd, John Martyn, Paul Harris, Beverley Martyn
6. Sorry To Be So Long
7. Tree Green
8. Say What You Can - Joe Boyd, John Martyn, Beverley Martyn, Tony Cox
9. Road To Ruin
10. Here I Am - John Martyn, Beverley Martyn

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #22544 in Music
• Released on: 2005-10-03
• Number of discs: 1
• Formats: Original recording remastered, Extra tracks
• Dimensions: .22 pounds
• Running time: 42 minutes

Customer Reviews

Magnificent!
An amazing, but eminently workable contrast to ''Stormbringer' (my favourite album of all time) - if you've never heard it, you're in for a real and rare treat!

I will NEVER understand why the record company decided to 'ditch' Beverley Martyn, in favour of John Martyn, after this truly marvelous, and advanced album. Beverley allowed herself to be 'disappeard' and, in my opinion, John Martyn, feted though he has been, has never really broken-through to the popularity that I feel awaited them both, had they persisted as a duo.

John Martyn R.I.P.
Contrary to the 'opinionated' comments of the other reviewer. From the first chord of Auntie Aviator sit back and let your self drift on the cool breeze of Bev's seductive, sultry vocals and John's sublime guitar work.

Primrose Hill, where the feeling of a warm summers day coming to a peaceful close is captured, again, by Bev's beautifully succulent vocal work.

Road to Ruin featuring John's wonderfully 'slurred' singing washing over syrupy guitar.

Clearly, I've listed my favourite tracks. What are your's? Good enough to eat.Be seduced Give it a listen!!

Calm After the Stormbringer
The second of the two "Duet" albums John Martyn made with his then wife Beverley, before Island decided Martyn was a more marketable commodity on his own is a patchy affair, swinging between twee complacent hippiedom and the darker recesses of the psyche that Martyn explores in 'Inside Out' and 'Bless the Weather' before he revisits comfortable domesticity in 'Sunday's Child'. This unevenness occurs primarily because half the songs seem constructed as a vehicle for Beverley's voice and are thus restricted to rather bland and fey compositions. Auntie Aviatior is toe-curling piece of hippy nonsense and Sorry to be So Long is an apt title for an excruciatingly pointless song! But, and it is a big but, there are some Martynesque gems here that compete with some of the better tracks on 'Stormbringer' and rank alongside some of his important early works. Tree Green, New Day and the title track with its extended jazz coda are epic early-period John Martyn and merit the purchase price. Here I Am is an outake from the original session and need not detain the listener long, but from its spooky Max Ernst cover through its four or five standout tracks, this is a worthy companion to 'Stormbringer' and a marginal yet intriguing part of the John Martyn story!