Bless the Weather [Import]

Bless the Weather [Import]

Track Listings

1. Go Easy

2. Bless The Weather

3. Sugar Lump

4. Walk On The Water

5. Just Now

6. Head & Heart

7. Let The Good Things Come

8. Back Down The River

9. Glistening Glyndebourne

10. Singin' In The Rain

11. Walk On The Water (Alternate Take)

12. Bless The Weather (Alternate Take)

13. Back Down The River (Alternate Take)

14. Go Easy (Alternate Take)

15. Glistening Glyndebourne (Alternate Take)

16. Head & Heart (Band Version)

17. May You Never (Single Version)

Editorial Reviews
Product Description
Remastered reissue of the 1971 album features the 10 original tracks plus the 7 bonus tracks 'Walk On The Water' (take 3/previously unreleased), 'Bless The Weather' (take 4/previously unreleased), 'Back Down The River' (take 1/previously unreleased), 'Go Easy' (take 1/previously unreleased), 'Glistening Glyndebourne' (take 2/previously unreleased), 'Head & Heart' & 'May You Never'. Universal. 2005.

Tracks:

Go Easy
Bless the Weather
Sugar Lump
Walk to the Water
Just Now
Head and Heart
Let the Good Things Come
Back Down the River
Glistening Glyndebourne
Singin' in the Rain
Walk to the Water [Take 3][*]
Bless the Weather [Take 4][*]
Back Down the River [Take 1][*]
Go Easy [Take 1][*]
Glistening Glyndebourne [Take 2][*]
Head and Heart [Band Version][#][*]
May You Never [Single Version][*]

Album Description

Remastered reissue of the 1971 album features the 10 original tracks plus the 7 bonus tracks 'Walk On The Water' (take 3/previously unreleased), 'Bless The Weather' (take 4/previously unreleased), 'Back Down The River' (take 1/previously unreleased), 'Go Easy' (take 1/previously unreleased), 'Glistening Glyndebourne' (take 2/previously unreleased), 'Head & Heart' & 'May You Never'. Universal. 2005.

Album Details

2005 Digitally Remastered Edition of Martyn's Third Solo Album from Island features the Extended Track "Glistening Glyndebourne", Where He First Recorded Using an Echoplex, a Device that Would Figure Prominently in his Later Efforts. The Original Tracklist Has Seven Bonus Tracks Added on this Issue: "Walk on the Water (Alternate Version)", "Bless the Weather (Alternate Version)", "Back Down the River (Alternate Version)", "go Easy (Alternate Version)", "Glistening Glyndebourne (Alternate Version)", "Head and Heart (Band Version)" and "May You Never (Single Version)".

Average customer rating:

Almost Flawless Masterpiece
Great For Late At Night
Songs to live by
A CLASSIC ALBUM OF TIMELESS BEAUTY
Listen With Your Head And Heart

Bless the Weather
John Martyn
Manufacturer: Polygram Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Release Date: 1998-06-16

Tracks:

Go Easy
Bless The Weather
Sugar Lump
Walk On The Water
Just Now
Head And Heart
Let The Good Things Come
Back Down The River
Glistening Glyndebourne
Singin' In The Rain

Customer Reviews:

Almost Flawless Masterpiece.......2006-07-29

Bless The Weather is arguably John Martyn's finest recording moments on vinyl (as it was then). What this album manages to achieve is the near perfect blend of contemporary folk music and jazz, and with John's wonderfully expressive vocals, he just can barely put a foot wrong here. The atmosphere of the whole album is laid back, but at the same time completely manages to grip the listener from start to finish.

'Go Easy' is the ideal opener, has a real lazy feeling to it and sets up the whole mood for the album. 'Bless The Weather' demonstrates the perfect fusion of jazz and folk. Danny Thompson, a veteran UK jazz double bassist, who accompanies John Martyn has a strong presence here and features on most of the other tracks. In fact much of the time during the '70s he was the only musician to accompany Martyn on stage, and the two of them became great pals. He has a complete empathy for Martyn's guitar playing and music. 'Sugar Lump' is the only disappointment on BTW. It just isn't up to the high quality of the other songs. 'Walk On The Water' adds an xylophone suggesting a "drops of water" feel to the song. 'Just Now' is a wonderful emotional (but never cloying) ballad, questioning relationships, with John solo, and closes the first half of the album.

'Head And Heart' starts the second half, more upbeat and again strongly features Danny Thompson. This is the most commercial sounding track of the album, but excellent nonetheless. 'Let The Good Times Come' deserves a special mention. It features John's (then) wife and former recording partner, Beverly Martyn. Here she uses her voice as a background instrument. The result is highly startling and effective. 'Back Down The River' is a plain gentle song, just John on his own, short and sweet. We then come to the climax of the whole album, 'Glistening Glyndebourne'. This is a six and a half minute instrumental epic, which also includes a small contribution from Richard Thompson. It starts out building slowly for a couple of minutes with piano, double bass and guitar, before markedly picking up tempo, and adding congas and drums. Martyn for the first time uses echoplex on his guitar, which adds rhythmic layers of sound to the whole piece, a technique that he was to feature prominently on future recordings. Martyn finally closes out with a short but idiosynchratic version of 'Singing In The Rain'. On its own this track would be questionable, but in context of the whole album, it wraps it up beautifully.

It's easy to throw superlatives at at an album or artist that you like. John Martyn was a musician I greatly admired in the 1970s, but not so much after then, when after he crossed paths with Phil Collins, he decided to try to sound more commercial using awful synthesisers and drum machines on much of his work since. BTW shows off John Martyn at his natural and very best.

Cannot recommend this album too highly.

Great For Late At Night.......2004-01-25

The feel of this music is as warm, mellow, and dense as an intoxicating haze. Bless The Weather displays all of the craft and integrity of Nick Drake's first two albums, but the arrangements are less ornate and more relaxed. Though the producers occasionally generate a few strange sounds that hover in the background, Martyn confines himself to guitar, piano, upright bass, and occasionally the muffled sound of bongo and steel drums, which are generally used to convey mood instead of rhythm.

As the seventies wore on and he descended into drug and alcohol abuse, Martyn's arrangements became more complex and less focused. But apart from Sugar Lump (a predictable blues number), every song on Bless The Weather is a jewel. It's nice to hear a folk jazz album that's genuinely beautiful without sounding gutless.

Songs to live by.......2003-07-16

John Martyn's beautiful songs have a way of threading themselves through your subconscious. He says so much about love, loss and just being human it makes you grateful someone can give voice to those feelings you have trouble expressing. He's subtle, raunchy and exquisitely tender. 'Head and Heart' is as pure a piece of vulnerability in love as any to be found, realistic and optimistic but so touching.Once you have this music it will be with you throughout your life, it becomes part of what makes you tick, it's music to live your life by and with.

A CLASSIC ALBUM OF TIMELESS BEAUTY.......2001-07-02

John Martyn has produced an impressive amount of fine music over his long career -- this album, for me, is the high point (closely followed by SOLID AIR). Don't misunderstand -- just about everything Martyn has released has been of the highest quality, if slightly varying in style -- this period just happens to be the one that appeals the most to me.

Everything comes together here in perfection -- Martyn's solid, gentle songwriting coupled with his unforgettable smokey voice and unique guitar style, accompanied by some of the finest players to EVER grace a recording studio (Richard Thompson on guitar and Danny Thompson on acoustic bass). Placed in the hands of the able producer/engineer team of John Wood and Joe Boyd, the recording itself is crystal-clear and uncluttered, letting Martyn's songs shine through with their own light...

...and what a light they possess! The album's opener, 'Go easy', sets the pace perfectly with Martyn pleading sofly, 'Life, go easy on me -- love, don't pass me by...' With so many other vocalists, Martyn's breathy delivery might seem affected -- but John makes it seem effortlessly natural. 'Bless the weather' continues in this vein, 'Bless the weather that brought you to me -- curse the storm that takes you home...' This album was recorded after John and his wife/singing partner Beverly Martyn split -- and longing, loneliness and pain naturally accompany such a rift, no matter the cause or the instigator.

There is hope in these tunes, too -- 'Walk on the water' is more upbeat and uplifting, and 'Just now' is one of the most endearing reflections on 'getting in touch' with onesself that I've ever heard. 'Head and heart' is probably the best known of all of Martyn's compositions, having also been covered by other artists. His original version here pales them all with it's heartfelt simplicity. 'Let the good times come' is a natural partner to the album's two opening tracks -- 'Back down the river' yearns for a fresh start.

'Glistening Glyndebourne' is simply breathtaking music --- this long instrumental piece gives John's listeners the first taste of his ground-breaking work with the echoplex, to be followed up often on successive recordings, and destined to stun many a listener at his live shows. I heard Martyn once here in America on a tour when he was the opening act for Yes. Much of his equipment hadn't arrived by showtime, but Martyn went on anyway, knocking the crowd -- ready to be showered with the progressive rock of the main act -- back on their heels, bringing the buzzing, cavernous hall to attentive silence. John, his acoustic guitar, the echoplex and his one-of-a-kind voice filled the arena as few complete bands can do, and demanded attention. He only played 3 numbers, but he stole the show.

The album concludes with a classic, 'Singin' in the rain' -- I've never heard anyone give this song a reading like this, and I've never been so moved by it. If hearing Alex sing the song in Stanley Kubrick's film ode to ultra-violence, A CLOCKWORK ORANGE, while savagely beating and kicking a helpless, bound victim threw the song into a bad light, Martyn's gentle rendition of it here will definitely clear the air.

This is a disc that could appeal to so many listeners -- folk, jazz, blues, even pop. All of these styles have a place in the unique character that is the music of John Martyn. This is most assuredly an album for anyone's 'desert island collection'.

[Helpful hint: together, John Wood and Joe Boyd made up Witchseason Productions, which brought us wonderful music by Nick Drake and others. Any recording with their name on it is going to be some of the best music from its era.]

Listen With Your Head And Heart.......2000-10-19

This is one of the BEST early-70s singer-songwriter albums, or of any era for that matter. It is filled with soothing and moving songs that should really be better known to fans of James Taylor, Carole King, Jackson Browne et. al. It enhances that style with an added layer of English/Scottish mystical folk, with a nod to blues. Actually, the best comparison may be to Joni Mitchell. Martyn is a songwriter of rare sensitivity and flexibility, and this wonderful album, heard at the right time and in the right mood, is virtually guaranteed to infiltrate your subconscious and have you reaching for it again and again, especially on Sunday mornings over a cup of coffee. It's diverse, too: he throws in a Stonesy rocker here, an extended instrumental there (what a great guitarist!), but the ten tracks hang together perfectly. "Head And Heart," "Bless The Weather," "Just Now," "Let The Good Things Come"...so many gems here! This and "Solid Air" are his two best albums by a mile ("Inside Out" isn't too far behind), but Martyn's body of work overall is admirable and worthy of the sort of wider attention currently being afforded his late friend, labelmate and colleague Nick Drake. After hearing this stroke of pastoral genius, I'm sure you'll feel the same.

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Excellent, just excellent
All i can say is "WOW!"

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Customer Reviews:

Excellent, just excellent.......2007-02-06

3 Reasons why this CD is awesome:

1. The back cover blurb says "Hazleton is at home as both a church and theater organist." TRUE. Just when you're getting tired of the standard theater organ sound (overly vibrato, skating rink kind of shimmer) he throws in a piece like "The Lost Chord," which builds and builds and BUILDS, sounding like a monster church organ at the National Cathedral.

2. I always thought it would be cool to have a piece where every possible organ sound effect gets used. "The Stripper" has it all! It starts out with the tambourine and and shake bells, moves into the opening melody on a grand piano - which is linked to this Wurlitzer's keyboard [!], and before you're done he's thrown every sound effect you can think of -- even a siren! And IT WORKS! Amazing!

3. If you've ever been to an organ concert, you know half the fun is hearing the low frequency sonics of the really low pipes. The fidelity of this recording captures it! Turn it up and feel the rumble!

Really glad I got this. Highly recommended.

All i can say is "WOW!".......2002-09-12

I received my CD today. I have a THX system and the mighty organ kicks and kicks hard. You will feel like your at Radio City Music Hall even though this isn't the Music Halls organ except for the organ name. The stereo separation is great and if you have a subwoofer you'll get that great rumbling sound that you can only get from the mighty Wurlitzer but it isn't overpowering. I was really impressed with this CD and if your into theatre organ music,,,,this is the one to get. Trust me,,,,you won't be disappointed. IT KICKS.

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