Après les sublimes rééditions des albums de Richard & Linda Thompson, Island/Universal s’attaque maintenant aux rééditions d’un autre couple emblématique de la scène folk britannique de la fin 60’s, John & Beverley Martyn. The Road To Ruin (comme quoi les Ramones n’avaient rien inventé !) et Stormbringer! ont subi le même lifting que les précédentes rééditions Island : son remasterisé, livret copieux et bonus à la clé. Ces deux disques déjà disponible, début novembre les cinq premiers albums solo de John Martyn (à l’exception de Solid Air) suivront le même traitement : London Conversation, The Tumbler, Bless The Weather, Inside Out et Sunday’s Child. A noter que The Tumbler est le seul du lot à ne pas inclure d’inédits. Encore un mystère du marché de la réédition ?

–Stormbringer (1969)

Go Out And Get It (J. Martyn)

Can’t Get The One I Want (B. Martyn)

Stormbringer (J. Martyn)

Sweet Honesty (B. Martyn)

Woodstock (J. Martyn)

John The Baptist (J. Martyn)

The Ocean (J. Martyn)

Traffic-Light Lady (J. Martyn)

Tomorrow Time (B. Martyn)

Would You Believe Me (J. Martyn)

Bonus :

One Of Those Days – demo recorded 16th April 1969

I Don’t Know – demo recorded 16th April 1969

John The Baptist – demo recorded 16th April 1969

Traffic-Light Lady – demo recorded 16th April 1969

–The Road To Ruin (1970)


Primrose Hill (B. Martyn)

Parcels (J. Martyn)

Auntie Aviator (J. Martyn, B. Martyn)

New Day (J. Martyn)

Give Us A Ring (Paul Wheeler)

Sorry To Be So Long (J. Martyn, B. Martyn)

Tree Green (J. Martyn)

Say What You Can (J. Martyn, B. Martyn)

Road To Ruin (J. Martyn)

Bonus :

Here I Am – previously unreleased and recorded August 1970.

Albums solo John Martyn :

–London Conversation (1967)

Fairy Tale Lullaby (J. Martyn)

Sandy Grey (R. Fredericks)

London Conversation (J. Martyn, J. Sundell)

Ballad Of An Elder Woman (J. Martyn)

Cocain (Traditional arranged by J. Martyn)

Run Honey Run (J. Martyn)

Back To Stay (J. Martyn)

Rolling Home (J. Martyn)

Who’s Grown Up Now (J. Martyn)

Golden Girl (J. Martyn)

This Time (J. Martyn)

Don’t Think Twice (B. Dylan)

Bonus :

She Moved Through The Fair (Previously Unreleased)

–The Tumbler (1968)

Sing A Song Of Summer (J. Martyn)

The River (J. Martyn)

Goin’ Down To Memphis (J. Martyn)

The Gardeners (J. Martyn)

A Day At The Sea (J. Martyn)

Fishin’ Blues (J. Martyn)

Dusty (J. Martyn)

Hello Train (J. Martyn)

Winding Boy (Morton)

Fly On Home (J. Martyn, Wheeler)

Knuckeldy Crunch And Slippledee Slee Song (J. Martyn)

Seven Black Roses (J. Martyn)

–Bless The Weather (1971)


Go Easy (J. Martyn)

Bless The Weather (J. Martyn)

Sugar Lump (J. Martyn)

Walk To The Water (J. Martyn)

Just Now (J. Martyn)

Head And Heart (J. Martyn)

Let The Good Things Come (J. Martyn)

Back Down The River (J. Martyn)

Glistening Glyndebourne (J. Martyn)

Singin’ In The Rain (Brown, Freed)

Bonus :

Walk To The Water (Alternate Take)

Bless The Weather (Alternate Take)

Back Down The River (Alternate Take)

Go Easy (Alternate Take)

Glistening Glyndebourne (Alternate Take)

Head And Heart (Band Version)

May You Never (Single Version)

–Inside Out

Fine Lines (J. Martyn)

Eibhli Ghail Chiuin Ni Chearbhaill (Traditional arranged by J. Martyn)

Ain’t No Saint (J. Martyn)

Outside In (J. Martyn)

The Glory Of Love (B. Hill)

Look In (J. Martyn)

Beverley (J. Martyn)

Make No Mistake (J. Martyn)

Ways To Cry (J. Martyn)

So Much In Love With You (J. Martyn)

Bonus :

Beverley/Make No Mistake (BBC Session 10th October 1973)

Fine Lines (BBC Session 10th October 1973)

Eibhli Ghail Chiuin Ni Chearbhaill (BBC Session 10th October 1973)

Outside In (BBC Session 23rd May 1973)

–Sunday’s Child (1974)

One Day Without You (J. Martyn)
Lay It All Down (J. Martyn)
Root Love (J. Martyn)
My Baby Girl (J. Martyn)
Sunday’s Child (J. Martyn)
Spencer The Rover (Traditional arranged by J. Martyn)
Clutches (J. Martyn)
The Message (J. Martyn)
Satisfied Mind (Traditional arranged by J. Martyn)
You Can Discover (J. Martyn)
Call Me Crazy (J. Martyn)
Bonus :

Ellie Rhee (Previously Unreleased)

Satisfied Mind (Alternate Take)

One Day Without You (BBC Session 7th January 1975)

You Can Discover (BBC Session 7th January 1975)

My Baby Girl (BBC Session 7th January 1975)

The Message (BBC Session 7th January 1975)

Spencer The Rover (BBC Session 7th January 1975)