RIP, John Martyn (January 29, 2009) Respected British Folk Singer
Posted by themusicsover.com on January 29, 2009
John Martyn (Born Iain McGeachy)
September 11, 1948 – January 29, 2009
John Martyn was a Scottish folk singer-songwriter and guitarist whose career spanned the better part of four decades. With a sound that was equal parts folk, blues, jazz and rock played acoustically through a fuzzbox, Martyn was without peer in the British folk and blues scene of the ’60s and ’70s. Over the course of his career, he has played with the likes of Phil Collins, David Gilmour and Eric Clapton. John Martyn died of double pneumonia in an Ireland hospital. He was 60 years old.
