John MARTYN: Live in Milan 1979 double PROMO CD with 19 songs (2 extra). Check video. Rock / classic blues

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John MARTYN: Live in Milan 1979
With over thirty years in the business, John Martyn with his laid back vocal style and his innovative guitar playing has won huge respect from fellow musicians and his loyal fanbase. He has become known for his unique recorded output and caustic live performances. Effortlessly skipping through fusions of Jazz, Blues, Dub, Folk and Rock to create a sonic makeover.
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This great live double CD was recorded in May 1979 and contains tracks from the classic albums released around that time, One World, Sundays Child, Solid Air as well as interpretations of classic blues and standards’. It also includes Martyns stunning echoplex guitar improvisations which reached a peak of creativity around this time. There are two bonus tracks one from 1977, a fast and furious version of ‘I’d Rather Be The Devil’ and from May 1979 a unique medley of stay/Anna/Small Hours’ recorded in Turin 3 days after the rest of this album.

SAMPLES: sorry, the edited audio transfer doesn’t have the best sound quality, but at least you get to hear a few seconds from each song! http://chirb.it/FN4hCr or http://picosong.com/wn5t8/

John MARTYN: Live in Milan 1979 double CD  Rock / classic blues  ITEM CONDITION:  Mint [2 CD discs and all inserts / booklets] 

Fantastic 19 track live recording from 1979 with 2 bonus tracks recorded in 1977 and 1979, ‘I’d Rather Be The Devil’ & ‘Stay/Anna/Small Hours’. 
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Track Listings 
1. Big Muff 
2. Certain Surprises 
3. Couldn’t Love You More 
4. One Day Without You 
5. Over The Hill 
6. Outside In 
7. Spencer The Rover 

8. One World 
9. The Easy Blues 
10. Seven Black Roses 
11. Beverley 
12. Make No Mistake 
13. Bless The Weather 
14. May You Never 
15. Singin In The Rain 
16. Id Rather Be The Devil (Part) 
17. Solid Air 
18. Id Rather Be The Devil (Bonus) 
19. Stay Anna Small Hours (Bonus) 
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Product Details 
• Audio CD (July 16, 2002) 
• Original Release Date: 2002 
• Number of Discs: 2 
• Label: One World UK 

With over thirty years in the business, John Martyn with his laid back vocal style and his innovative guitar playing has won huge respect from fellow musicians and his loyal fan base. He has become known for his unique recorded output and caustic live performances. Effortlessly skipping through fusions of Jazz, Blues, Dub, Folk and Rock to create a sonic makeover. 
This great live double CD was recorded in May 1979 and contains tracks from the classic albums released around that time, One World, Sundays Child, Solid Air as well as interpretations of classic blues and ‘standards’. It also includes Martyn’s stunning echoplex guitar improvisations which reached a peak of creativity around this time. There are two bonus tracks one from 1977, a fast and furious version of ‘I’d Rather Be The Devil’ and from May 1979 a unique medley of ‘Stay/Anna/Small Hours’ recorded in Turin 3 days after the rest of this album 

Recorded at the very end of the ’70s, just before Martyn turned to his now-preferred band format, this is very much the last gasp of the man working as a solo performer. But few solo artists have had such a complete sound. To be fair, the sound quality leaves more than a bit to be desired, but this concert, from the Teatro Do Porto Romana is quite electrifying — and not just on the electric cuts, either. “Seven Black Roses,” for example, showcases his picking skills, while “Bless the Weather” isn’t taken as a straight reading of the favorite tune, but as a springboard for improvisation. Martyn himself is in excellent form, begging spliffs from the crowd and indulging in banter that the Italians might not even have understood. But when he really plugs in, things take off. There’s a crunching version of “Big Muff,” while “Outside In” is a Medusa of echoplexed guitar lines, a real meeting place between folk and avant-garde jazz, and one of the best versions of the piece to have appeared on record. “One World” is gloriously sinuous and ethereal, spinning out to the stratosphere. Two of the cuts here aren’t from the show — the hammering, violent version of “I’d Rather Be the Devil” actually dates from 1977, while the medley of “Stay/Anna/Small Hours” (“Stay” being the old Maurice Williams song, given a thoroughly new reading, and “Anna” a rarely-heard Martyn tune) was recorded on the same Italian tour. Listening to this, you can understand, in a way, why he needed to start using a band. He’d taken the solo artist format every bit as far as it could go. ~ Chris Nickson