Bless the Weather

by John Martyn

Bless the Weather cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: November 1971
  • Label: Island
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Length: 37:15
  • Community rating: 4.03/5 from 6 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Serving as a crucial transitional record toward his legendary jazz-inflected sound, John Martyn's 'Bless the Weather' is a remarkably warm, deeply intimate acoustic folk classic. The album is incredibly mellow and wonderfully soothing, matching highly melodic, beautifully soft guitar work with fiercely introspective, intensely bittersweet romanticism.

Genres

Descriptors: acoustic, male-vocals, folk, melodic, gentle

Tracklist

  1. Go Easy (4:13)
  2. Bless The Weather (4:27)
  3. Sugar Lump (3:39)
  4. Walk On The Water (2:46)
  5. Just Now (3:37)
  6. Head And Heart (4:52)
  7. Let The Good Things Come (3:02)
  8. Back Down The River (2:37)
  9. Glistening Glyndebourne (6:30)
  10. Singin' In The Rain (1:28)

Credits

  • John Martyn - primary artist, guitar, vocals, producer, written-by
  • Beverley Martyn - performer
  • Danny Thompson - performer
  • Ian Whiteman - performer
  • Richard Thompson - performer
  • Roger Powell - performer
  • Smiley De Jonnes - performer
  • Tony Reeves - performer
  • Visualeyes - photography by, design [album]
  • John Wood - producer
  • Arthur Freed - written-by
  • Nacio Herb Brown - written-by

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