London Conversation

London Conversation
Studio album by John Martyn
Released October 1967
Recorded Tony Pike's studio, Putney, London
Genre Folk music
Folk rock
Label Island
Producer Theo Johnson
Supervised by Chris Blackwell
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John Martyn chronology
London Conversation
(1967)		 The Tumbler
(1968)

London Conversation is the first album by John Martyn released on Island Records in 1967. Largely self-penned, the album is much more folk oriented than the Blues/Jazz tinged later releases. The album reputedly cost £158 to record.[1]

Contents

Track listing

All tracks composed by John Martyn except where indicated

Side one
  1. "Fairy Tale Lullaby" – 2:50
  2. "Sandy Grey" (Robin Frederick) – 2:25
  3. "London Conversation" (Martyn, J. Sundell) – 2:42
  4. "Ballad Of An Elder Woman" – 2:43
  5. "Cocaine" (Traditional, arranged John Martyn) – 2:59
  6. "Run Honey Run" – 2:37
Side two
  1. "Back To Stay" – 3:28
  2. "Rolling Home" – 5:43
  3. "Who's Grown Up Now" – 4:01
  4. "Golden Girl" – 2:34
  5. "This Time" – 3:07
  6. "Don't Think Twice It's Alright" (Bob Dylan)
Bonus track on 2005 CD reissue
  1. "She Moved Through The Fair" (Traditional) - 2:33

Personnel

John Martyn - vocals, guitar, keyboards, harmonica

References

  1. ^ Penney, Stuart; Chris Savage (September 1996). "Frog to Prog: Pink Label LPs". Record Collector (205): 84. 

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)