Advantages: Most of the tracks very strong. Album stands test of time Disadvantages: Not a commercial album and needs repeated listening.
With the recent death of JohnMartyn OBE announced at the age of 60, I thought I'd review his most popular and enduring album, Solid Air, regarded by many fans as his masterpiece.
A Brief Background
JohnMartyn was born in 1948 in Surrey to Scottish parents who moved back to Glasgow, when he was still a toddler..His parents soon split up and he continued to live with his father and took up the guitar at 15. He made rapid progress on the instrument developing a finger-picking style. Two years later he left home at 17, heading back to the South East, where he began to perform on the British folk circuit, eventually gaining a residency at Les Cousins, London's most prestigious folk club. Whilst still a teenager he was spotted by Chris Blackwell the founder of Island Records, who signed him up in 1967, when he cut his first album ...
Advantages: Highly original and relaxing acoustic guitar songs, superbly played Disadvantages: Inferior bonus tracks might interfere with the mood of the album for some.
JohnMartyn was a very talented British singer/songwiter/musician, who attracted a strong interest and following during the 1970s (less so in the '80s),.But he enjoyed little commercial recognition, despite his best albums selling steadily over the years. Although Martyn started out as a folk artist in the late 1960s, by the time of this release, jazz and blues influences had crept into his repertoire. By the '80s, Martyn's studio albums had changed noticeably in musical style, devoid of any folk influence, but not some might say, for the better.
Bless The Weather, released in 1971 is JohnMartyn's fifth album, and arguably his best. It originally included ten tracks, nine songs plus one superb instrumental jam. What the original album managed to achieve is the near perfect blend of contemporary folk and jazz ...
Advantages: Al Pacino, Classic Movie Disadvantages: None
Movie
Recently I was listening to the Swordfish soundtrack on the way to work, and on the soundtrack John Travolta speak about DogDay Afternoon. He says that it is arguably Pacino's best movie and certainly Sidney Lumet's (The Directors) best movie.
Intrigued by this information I took a look on IMDB, where it currently resides with an impressive 8 out of 10, and sits in the top 250 movies of all time. I went and bought this movie on the back of this information, so how did it live up to the information I had heard?
I took a look at what the director Sidney Lumet has done, both before and since DogDay, and I must say that I have not heard of many of the movies that he has done, and DogDay is the only movie he has directed that I have seen.
Al Pacino who plays Sonny Wortzik needs no introduction, a brilliant actor who has ...
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