“Lionisation is too late when you’re dead… I’ve often thought of faking my own death and watching the record companies drum up all the stuff they can”: A fight, a show then a drink with John Martyn

John Martyn.

Folk? Rock? Blues? Jazz? John Martyn was a mixture of all four and certainly one of the most progressive artists of his generation – as late Prog writer Tommy Udo argued in 2009, soon after the singer-songwriter’s death at the age of 60.

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