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The likes of David Gray, The Swell Season, Beth Orton and Morcheeba have also covered Martyn songs on the record, entitled Johnny Boy Would Love This – A Tribute To John Martyn, which will be released on August 15.
Martyn, who died in January 2009 shortly after being awarded an OBE, released 20 studio albums throughout his career.
Phil Collins – who worked with Martyn on his albums Grace and Danger and Glorious Fool, said: "John Martyn was unique. Completely unique. He had such power, such emotion, in his music that he could overwhelm the listener even when it was just him and an acoustic guitar."
Track List:
Disc 1:
'Let The Good Things Come' (David Gray)
'Glorious Fool' (Clarence Fountain and Sam Butler)
'Small Hours' (Robert Smith)
'Stormbringer' (Beck)
'Over The Hill' (Ted Barnes featuring Gavin Clark)
'I Don’t Wanna Know' (The Swell Season)
'Bless The Weather' (The Emperors Of Wyoming)
'Couldn’t Love You More' (Lisa Hannigan)
'Go Easy' (Vetiver)
'Solid Air' (Skye Edwards)
'You Can Discover' (Cheryl Wilson)
'The Easy Blues (Jelly RollBaker)' ( Joe Bonamassa)
'Dancing' (Sonia Dada)
'Certain Surprise' (Sabrina Dinan)
'One World' (Paolo Nutini)
Disc 2:
'May You Never' (Snow Patrol)
'Go Down Easy' (Beth Orton)
'Fairytale Lullaby' (Bombay Bicycle Club)
'Fine Lines' (Syd Kitchen)
'Head And Heart' (Vashti Bunyan)
'Run Honey Run' (Morcheeba)
'Angeline' (Nicholas Barron)
'Walk To The Water' (John Smith)
'Hurt In Your Heart' (Judy Tzuke)
'Road To Ruin' (Jim Tullio)
'Oh My God' (John Wayne)
'Rope Soul’d' (The Blackships)
'Back To Stay' (Ultan Conlon)
'Anna' (Brendan Campbell)
'Tearing And Breaking' (Phil Collins)
Source: NME 
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John Martyn OBE (11 September 1948 - 29 January 2009) was a British singer-songwriter and guitarist. Over a 40 year career he released 20 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". Biography Early life: Martyn was...
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A wonderful songwriter that fused folk with Jazz. A great talent sadly passed and missed.
Started listening to John Martyn in his Auntie Aviator days with Beverly Martyn and instantly just fell in love with his music. Was heartbroken when he died but this tribute album will most certainly fill a gap.
I still reckon it'd be a bit weird hearing other folks covering the songs....has anyone heard John's last and latest album Heaven and Earth yet? Some lovely moments on that record, but sad too...
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