Bless the Weather

Bless the Weather

Infobox Album
Name = Bless The Weather
Type = Album
Artist = John Martyn


Released = November 1971
Recorded = May 1971 at Sound Techniques, Chelsea
Genre = Folk music
Length = 75:19 (2005 reissue)
Label = Island Records
Producer = John Martyn, John Wood
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|4.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:ljua6j4771y0 link]
URL = [http://www.johnmartyn.com/ www.johnmartyn.com]
Last album = "The Road to Ruin" (1970)
This album = "Bless the Weather Tumbler" (1971)
Next album = "Solid Air" (1973)

"Bless the Weather" is a 1971 album by John Martyn and marks his return as a solo artist having released two albums with his wife Beverley Martyn. When it was released it garnered his best reviews to date, and remains a firm favourite among fans, featuring such standards as 'Head And Heart' and the title track. The album is predominantly acoustic, although it does feature John's first real 'echoplex' moment in the track "Glistening Glyndebourne".

Q magazine chose Bless The Weather among the dozen essential folk albums of all time in 1999. According to Q, the album was apparently recorded in three days!

Beck remade "Go Easy" for a webcast performance.

Track listing

All tracks composed by John Martyn; except where indicated

#"Go Easy" – 4:15
#"Bless The Weather" – 4:29
#"Sugar Lump" – 3:43
#"Walk On The Water" – 2:49
#"Just Now" – 3:39
#"Head And Heart" – 4:54
#"Let The Good Things Come" – 3:05
#"Back Down The River" – 2:40
#"Glistening Glyndebourne" – 6:30
#"Singing In The Rain" (Nacio Herb Brown, Arthur Freed) – 1:28

Bonus tracksRecorded at a demo session, Sound Technique Studios, Chelsea 16th April 1969
#"Walk To The Water" (Take 3) (3:34)
#"Bless The Weather" (Take 4) (5:37)
#"Back Down The River" (Take 1) (2:44)
#"Go Easy" (Take 1) (4:39)
#"Glistening Glyndebourne" (Take 2) (7:48)
#"Head And Heart" (Band Version) (10:17)
#"May You Never" (Single Version) (2:45)

Personnel

John Martyn - vocals, guitar, harmonica, keyboards
*Richard Thompson - guitar
*Smiley DeJonnes - percussion
*Beverley Martyn - guitar, vocals
*Tony Reeves - bass
*Ian Whiteman - keyboards
*Danny Thompson - bass
*Roger Powell - drums

External links

* [http://www.johnmartyn.com/ The John Martyn Website]


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