Live
John Martyn
David Gilmour
One World Records, 2008
2 CD
Catalogue #: OW133CD
EAN: 0604388693320
UPC: 604388693320
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Personnel: John Martyn (vocals, guitars); David Gilmour (guitar); Dave Lewis (saxophone); Spencer Cozens (keyboards); Alan Thomson (bass guitar); Miles Bould (drums, percussion).
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John Martyn
Scottish singer-songwriter John Martyn started out as a folk artist with jazzy leanings that were highly unusual for the mid-1960s. He made a couple of albums with then-wife Beverley that were very much of their time before embarking on a musical journey that combined folk, blues, jazz, and rock, with a tendency towards electronic and atmospheric experimentation. His early-'70s albums are as distinctive and striking as anything in the singer-songwriter canon. Alcohol problems and commercial concerns found him adopting a slicker, more pop-oriented sound as he moved toward the '80s, but Martyn came out on top again both personally and artistically with his '90s releases and performances.
David Gilmour
Since being brought abroad to cover for the increasingly unreliable Syd Barrett on guitar in the late 1960s, David Gilmour has been the musical foundation of Pink Floyd. Gilmour's work as a solo artist began with his 1978 self-titled debut, a record that didn't deviate much from the basic Floyd template, but came to symbolize the strife that would eventually lead to the band's break-up following 1983's THE FINAL CUT. Gilmour resumed his solo career with 1984's ABOUT FACE and continued to lead a revamped Pink Floyd into the new millennium. His solo career, however, remained on hold for 22 years until 2006's ON AN ISLAND.
