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John Martyn, OBE (11 September 1948 – 29 January 2009) (born Iain David McGeachy) was a British singer-songwriter and guitarist. Over a 40 year career he released 21 studio albums, working with artists such as Eric Clapton and David Gilmour. He has been described by The Times as "an electrifying guitarist and singer whose music blurred the boundaries between folk, jazz, rock and blues".

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Classic Acoustic [2017]

SongDuration
Solid Air5:43
May You Never3:41

LateNightTales [2013]

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Small Hours8:44

The Island Years [2013]

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Traffic-Light Lady3:19
Traffic-Light Lady [BBC John Peel Show Broadcast 4/4/1970] [#][*]3:16
Traffic-Light Lady [*]3:01
Bless the Weather4:29
Sugar Lump3:42
Singin' in the Rain1:31
Bless the Weather [Alternate Take] [Alternate Take][#][*]4:52
Singin' in the Rain [Alternate Take] [Alternate Take][#][*]3:39
May You Never [Live][#]6:12
Solid Air6:12
Over the Hill2:53
I'd Rather Be the Devil (Devil Got My Woman)6:18
Go Down Easy3:35
Dreams by the Sea3:17
May You Never4:12
The Man in the Station2:53
Solid Air [Take 2] [Alternate Take][*][Take]4:32
Over the Hill [Alternate Take] [Alternate Take][*]3:19
I'd Rather Be the Devil (Devil Got My Woman) [Take 2] [Alternate Take][6:03
I'd Rather Be the Devil (Devil Got My Woman) [Take 3] [Alternate Take][5:45
Go Down Easy [Take 3] [Alternate Take][*][Take]5:12
Go Down Easy [Take 4] [Alternate Take][*][Take]3:43
Dreams by the Sea [Take 2] [Alternate Take][*][Take]3:24
May You Never [Take 2] [Alternate Take][*][Take]3:47
The Man in the Station [Take 2] [Alternate Take][*][Take]2:58
Make No Mistake5:57
Make No Mistake [Alternate Take] [Alternate Take][*]6:46
Make No Mistake [*]3:12
One Day Without You2:59
Lay It All Down1:51
Root Love4:34
Sunday's Child3:17
Spencer the Rover4:11
Sunday's Child [Alternate Take] [Alternate Take][#][*]6:33
Root Love [Instrumental] [Alternate Take] [Alternate Take][#][*]5:18
Spencer the Rover [#][*]3:54
Dealer5:05
One World4:09
Smiling Stranger3:29
Couldn't Love You More3:07
Certain Surprise3:54
Dancing3:43
Small Hours8:45
Dealer [Alternate Take][#][*]5:16
One World [Take 2] [Alternate Take][#][*][Take]4:21
Smiling Stranger [Take 2] [Alternate Take][#][*][Take]3:37
Couldn't Love You More [Alternate Take][#][*]3:14
Small Hours [Alternate Take][#][*]9:52
One World [Take 3] [Alternate Take][Take]4:28
Smiling Stranger [Take 3] [Alternate Take][Take]3:30
Couldn't Love You More [Take 2] [Alternate Take][Take]3:04
Certain Surprise [Take 2] [Alternate Take][Take]4:02
Dancing [Take 2] [Alternate Take][Take]3:56
Small Hours [Take 2] [Alternate Take][Take]8:47
Dancing [Take 1] [Alternate Take][Take]3:53
Some People Are Crazy4:43
Johnny Too Bad7:11
Hurt In Your Heart6:51
Johnny Too Bad [Take 2] [Alternate Take][#][*][Take]7:20
Some People Are Crazy [Take 1] [Alternate Take]4:14
[Untitled] [Instrumental] [Alternate Take] [Alternate Take]6:18
Johnny Too Bad [Take 3] [Alternate Take]6:14
Grace and Danger [Instrumental] [Instrumental]5:15
Sapphire5:17
Over the Rainbow5:00
Mad Dog Days5:26
Sapphire [Alternate Take] [Alternate Take][#][*]4:49
Over the Rainbow [Alternate Take] [Alternate Take][#][*]3:48
Mad Dog Days [Alternate Take] [Alternate Take][#][*]5:23
Lonely Love3:19
John Wayne7:42
John Wayne [Take 1] [Alternate Take][#][*][Take]5:53
Lonely Love [Take 1] [Alternate Take][#][*][Take]3:24
Patterns in the Rain3:27
Patterns in the Rain [*]3:19
One World [Out-Takes]8:52
Bless the Weather [Out-Takes]5:24
Spencer the Rover [Out-Takes] 

Hit & Run [2012]

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Over the Hill2:52

Richie Reece [2012]

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May You Never3:42

I Am Relaxed [2010]

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May You Never3:40

Acoustic, Vol. 2 [2009]

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May You Never 

Folk Routes [Decca] [2009]

SongDuration
Solid Air5:43

Gold [2008]

SongDuration
Meet on the Ledge2:51

Live at the BBC [2007]

SongDuration
Meet on the Ledge2:49

Man Upstairs [2007]

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May You Never [DVD] 

Skins [2007]

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May You Never3:42

True Chillout [2007]

SongDuration
Small Hours8:45

Bestival: The Album [2006]

SongDuration
Solid Air5:42

A Boxful of Treasures [2004]

SongDuration
Late November4:34

On the Cobbles [2004]

SongDuration
Go Down Easy4:57
Walking Home4:49

Acoustic [V2 Records] [2002]

SongDuration
Solid Air5:41

Perfect Alibi [2000]

SongDuration
Man in the Station3:48

Meet on the Ledge [1999]

SongDuration
Meet on the Ledge5:35

Scrapple [1999]

SongDuration
Over the Hill2:51

The Cropredy Box [1999]

SongDuration
Meet on the Ledge7:29

Q the Music, Vol. 6 [1998]

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God's Song 

The Apprentice [1990]

SongDuration
Patterns in the Rain3:45

Inside Out [1973]

SongDuration
Make No Mistake5:58

Sandy [1972]

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Bushes and Briars3:53

Unhalfbricking [1969]

SongDuration
A Sailor's Life11:08

Unknown Album

SongDuration
Feel So Bad3:29
Excuse Me Mister5:54
Small Town Talk 
How Fortunate the Man with None4:57
God's Song 
A Sailor's Life11:11
Meet On The Ledge 
Spencer the Rover 
One Day Without You 
Sunday's Child 
Lay It All Down 
You Don't Know What Love Is5:19
The Sky Is Crying4:02
He's Got All the Whiskey3:17
On the Road to Find Out5:10
Go Down Easy3:36
Man in the Station3:47
Singing in the Rain3:31
Late November4:28
Solid Air5:46
Over the Hill2:51
Amsterdam5:27
Root Love 
Traffic-Light Lady3:16
Certain Surprise3:53
Lonely Love 
Dreams by the Sea3:18
I'd Rather Be the Devil6:20
Sweet Little Mystery9:07
Glory Box 
Fine Lines6:25
Couldn't Love You More3:06
Bless the Weather4:27
Make No Mistake5:56
Over the Rainbow4:55
One World4:10
Johnny Too Bad3:56
Mad Dog Days 
Dealer2:23
Small Hours8:45
Dancing3:43
May You Never3:39
Sapphire5:18
John Wayne 
Singin' in the Rain1:28
Smiling Stranger3:33
Some People Are Crazy4:19
Run Honey Run2:34
Could've Been Me 
Hurt In Your Heart4:58
The Cure7:04
The easy blues [Live, Bremen, 1983]2:33
Sunday's child [Live, Bremen, 1983]5:56
Amsterdam [Live, Bremen, 1983]4:34
Sweet little mystery [Live, Bremen, 1983]6:19
Some people are crazy [Live, Bremen, 1983]4:14
Solid air [Live, Bremen, 1983]6:15
Johnny too bad [Live, Bremen, 1983]8:48
Dusty 
This Time 
Back to Marseilles 
You Might Need a Man 
Smiling stranger [Live, Bremen, 1983]6:45
The Downward Pull of Human Nature 
Fisherman’s Dream 
Back with a Vengeance 
Step It Up 
Pascanel [Get Back Home] 
Never Say Never 
The River 
Wildflower 
Sandy Grey 
The Message 
Send Me One Line 
The Easy Blues/Gentle Blues 
Could've been me [Live, Bremen, 1983]4:23
Jack the Lad 
Livin’ Alone 
Sunshine’s Better 
Who Believes in Angels 
Hiss on the Tape 
Big Muff 
Climb the Walls 
Income Town 
Hung Up 
The Field of Play 
Serendipity 
Acid Rain 
Don't You Go 
Number Nine 
Love Up 
Upo 
Willing to Work 
Carmine 
So Sweet 
Changes Her Mind 
Glorious Fool 
One Step Too Far 
Woodstock 
The Apprentice 
She’s a Lover 
Baby Come Home 
Ghosts 
One for the Road 
Could’ve Been Me 
All in Your Favour 
Fishin’ Blues 
Sorry to Be So Long 
Didn't Do That 
Piece by Piece 
Mama T 
Heaven and Earth 
Tight Connection to My Heart 
Dealer / Outside in [Live, Bremen, 1983]11:58
Primrose Hill 
You Can Discover 
Auntie Aviator 
Hello Train 
Golden Girl 
Rock Salt and Nails 
Fairy Tale Lullaby 
Perfect Hustler 
Just Now 
Clutches 
Gun Money 
Suzanne 
Bad Company 
Let the Good Things Come 
Live on Love 
The Gardeners 
Back Down the River 
Angeline 
Gambler 
Go Out and Get It 
Cobbles 
Sing a Song of Summer 
Watching Her Eyes 
Ellie Rhee 
A Little Strange 
Winding Boy 
Death Don’t Have No Mercy 
Goin’ Down to Memphis 
One world [Live, Bremen, 1983]5:11
Road to Ruin 
Root love [Live, Bremen, 1983]4:49
Bless the weather [Live, Bremen, 1983]4:35
Under My Wing 
When It’s Dark 
Rope-Soul’d 
So Much in Love with You 
Look In 
The Glory of Love 
Cocain [Live, Bremen, 1983]4:59
Can’t Turn Back the Years 
Deny This Love 
New Day 
The Moment 
London Conversation 
May you never [Live, Bremen, 1983]3:52
Can’t Live Without 
Hold Me 
Heel of the Hunt 
Ask Me No Questions 
Cool in This Life 
Parcels 
Tree Green 
Love of Mine 
Feel So Good 
Coming in on Time 
Say What You Can 
I’d Rather Be the Devil 
Hold on My Heart 
She Moved Through the Fair 
My Creator 
Hearts And Keys 
My Baby Girl 
Our Love 
Ways to Cry 
Nightline 
Head and Heart 
Go Easy 
John the Baptist 
Ballad of an Elder Woman 
Rolling Home 
Back to Stay 
In the Evening 
One day without you [Live, Bremen, 1983]4:23
Keep On 
Call Me Crazy 
Stormbringer! 
Couldn't love you more [Live, Bremen, 1983]5:48
Curl Your Toes 
Satisfied Mind 
You Know 
Gentle Blues 
Strange Fruit 
Who’s Grown Up Now 
Baby Please Come Home 
Walk to the Water 
Stand Amazed 
Colour 
Fly On Home 
Sweet Honesty 
Couldn’t Love You More 
Give Us a Ring 
I Don’t Wanna Know 
Don’t Want to Know 
The Ocean 
Tomorrow Time 
Goodnight Irene 
Could’ve Told You Before I Met You 

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