Bless the Weather

Bless The Weather
Studio album by John Martyn
Released November 1971
Recorded May 1971 at Sound Techniques, Chelsea
Genre Folk rock, folk jazz
Length 37:32 (original release)
75:19 (2005 reissue)
Label Island
Producer John Martyn, John Wood
John Martyn chronology
The Road to Ruin
(1970)		 Bless the Weather Tumbler
(1971)		 Solid Air
(1973)
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
John Martyn's Website (not rating)
The Guardian [1]
Record Collector [2]
John Martyn's Website (no rating)

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 Martyn's first real 'echoplex' track in "Glistening Glyndebourne".

Q magazine chose Bless the Weather among the dozen essential folk albums of all time in 1999. According to Q, the album recorded in just three days. In November 2007, Bless the Weather was included in a list by The Guardian newspaper entitled '1000 Albums to Hear Before You Die'.[1] Beck remade "Go Easy" for a webcast performance.

Contents

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 to 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. "Singin' in the Rain" (Nacio Herb Brown, Arthur Freed) – 1:28

Bonus tracks Recorded at a demo session, Sound Technique Studios, Chelsea 16 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)

Personnel

References

  1. ^ http://www.rocklistmusic.co.uk/guardian100.htm

External links

John Martyn
John Martyn studio albums
London Conversation (1967) • The Tumbler (1968) • Bless the Weather (1971) • Solid Air (February 1973) • Inside Out (October 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)
Albums with Beverley Martyn
Stormbringer! (February 1970) • The Road to Ruin (October 1970)
Live albums
Live at Leeds (1976) • Philentropy (1983) • Foundations (1987) • Live (1994) • The Battle of Medway: 17 July 1973 (2007) • The Simmer Dim (2008) • The July Wakes (2008; recorded 1986)
Compilations
So Far So Good (1977) • The Electric John Martyn (1982) • Sweet Little Mysteries: The Island Anthology (1994) • Late Night John (2004) • Anthology (2007) • Ain't No Saint (2008)