Bless the Weather

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Bless The Weather
Bless The Weather cover
Studio album by John Martyn
Released November 1971
Recorded 1971
Genre Folk Music
Label Island Records
Producer John Martyn, John Wood
Professional reviews
John Martyn chronology
The Road to Ruin
(1970)		 Bless the Weather Tumbler
(1971)		 Solid Air
(1973)

Bless the Weather is a 1971 album by John Martyn and marks his return as a solo artist having released two albums with his wife Beverley Martyn. When it was released it garnered his best reviews to date, and remains a firm favourite among fans, featuring such standards as 'Head And Heart' and the title track. The album is predominantly acoustic, although it does feature John's first real 'echoplex' moment in the track "Glistening Glyndebourne".

Q magazine chose Bless The Weather among the dozen essential folk albums of all time in 1999. According to Q, the album was apparently recorded in three days!

Beck remade "Go Easy" for a webcast performance.

[edit] Track listing

All tracks composed by John Martyn; except where indicated

  1. "Go Easy" – 4:15
  2. "Bless The Weather" – 4:29
  3. "Sugar Lump" – 3:43
  4. "Walk On The Water" – 2:49
  5. "Just Now" – 3:39
  6. "Head And Heart" – 4:54
  7. "Let The Good Things Come" – 3:05
  8. "Back Down The River" – 2:40
  9. "Glistening Glyndebourne" – 6:30
  10. "Singing In The Rain" (Nacio Herb Brown, Arthur Freed) – 1:28

Bonus tracks Recorded at a demo session, Sound Technique Studios, Chelsea 16th April 1969

  1. "Walk To The Water" (Take 3) (3:34)
  2. "Bless The Weather" (Take 4) (5:37)
  3. "Back Down The River" (Take 1) (2:44)
  4. "Go Easy" (Take 1) (4:39)
  5. "Glistening Glyndebourne" (Take 2) (7:48)
  6. "Head And Heart" (Band Version) (10:17)
  7. "May You Never" (Single Version) (2:45)

[edit] Personnel

John Martyn - vocals, guitar, harmonica, keyboards


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