{"id":481,"date":"2009-02-16T14:47:07","date_gmt":"2009-02-16T18:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/?p=481"},"modified":"2009-02-16T14:47:07","modified_gmt":"2009-02-16T18:47:07","slug":"john-martyn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/2009\/02\/16\/john-martyn\/","title":{"rendered":"John Martyn"},"content":{"rendered":"

I just found out via Jigtime<\/a> that John Martyn<\/a> passed away.\u00a0 He’s an artist I’d almost forgotten about, I had one of his albums<\/a> years ago when I was in college in Dublin. Somewhere along the line I lost or misplaced it and never replaced it. I’d always meant to replace it and get to know his music better, and he was a great musician to see live. I’m annoyed at myself for not knowing his music better.<\/p>\n

Sometimes John Martyn’s style reminds me a bit of Chris Rea<\/a>, but with a more bluey bent and with the humming double-bass, other times just so ethereal<\/a>. His early stuff was almost very traditional folk music (which I’m not familiar with).\u00a0 Here’s John live in Dublin in 1987, singing “Sweet Little Mysteries”:<\/p>\n

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And an interview with him last year, in 2008:
\nhttp:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=TkcmB8a1cn8<\/a><\/p>\n

I’m sad that I never got to see him live, and I hope he’s enjoying the sweet little mysteries where ever he is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I just found out via Jigtime that John Martyn passed away.\u00a0 He’s an artist I’d almost forgotten about, I had one of his albums years ago when I was in college in Dublin. Somewhere along the line I lost or misplaced it and never replaced it. I’d always meant to replace it and get to … Continue reading John Martyn<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}