
I discovered John Martyn slowly, through coverage, and unless you're an older folkie you may have too. Though he was better known across the pond, and his star shone its brightest in the sixties and seventies, his song May You Never , in particular, become especially familiar in the folk/blues world after Clapton covered it on his seminal 1977 release Slowhand; since then, Martyn had lived life as a songwriter's songwriter, still touring to smaller and older audiences as his songs traveled on without him in the hands of a diverse set of artists , from [...]