![]() London Conversation (1967) The Tumbler (1968) Stormbringer! (1970) (with Beverley Martyn) The Road to Ruin (1970) (with Beverley Martyn) Bless the Weather (1971) Solid Air (1973) Inside Out (1973) Sunday’s Child (1975) One World (1977) Grace and Danger (1980) Glorious Fool (1981) Well Kept Secret (1982) Sapphire (1984) Piece By Piece (1986) The Apprentice (1990) Cooltide (1991) Couldn’t Love You More (1992) No Little Boy (1993) And (1996) The Church With One Bell (1998) Glasgow Walker (2000) On The Cobbles (2004) Heaven And Earth (2011) Whilst often a good way into an artist for a new listener, the compilations don’t qualify for this listing. ![]() Many overlap drawing upon the same tracks. ![]() Martyn’s record companies have not been shy in compiling greatest hits anthologies. Official live albums and a range of some of the sanctioned bootlegs have been included. Martyn in his soul singer twilight years ( Bryan Ledgard under CC)Īs with any established artist there are plenty of live recordings and bootlegs of varying quality many of which were released late in Martyn’s career as the studio albums dried up. The album ranking below includes all 20 of John Martyn’s regular studio albums from the 1967 debut to the final release Heaven And Earth in 2011, plus his covers album The Church With One Bell, and his two albums of re-recordings of earlier work, Couldn’t Love You More and No Little Boy. Nevertheless he continued to tour including concerts celebrating two of his landmark albums, Solid Air and Grace And Danger, and a posthumous album Heaven And Earth was completed after his death. Sadly ill health thwarted his later years and slowed his output with only two albums of new material released in his final decade before his death in 2008. Through the late ’80s and early ’90s Martyn matured into an easy listening jazz lounge crooner before enjoying something of a creative rebirth in his latter years. ![]() ![]() Martyn in his electro-acoustic troubadour heyday circa mid 70s (Tim Duncan under CC)įrom these modest solo folk beginnings Martyn went on to produce some of the most progressive jazz folk of the ’70s showcased in a string of stunning original albums. ![]()
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