When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Bearded men with acoustic guitars always appeared to be the antithesis of prog: by their very ...

Born in Surrey in 1948 and raised in Glasgow, Iain David McGeachy developed an interest in playing guitar in his teens, aspiring to be just like the “baroque” folk masters of the time, such as Davey ...

John Martyn Grace & Danger Island Records1980 Today's Rediscovery is the late, great singer/songwriter John Martyn's classic Grace & Danger. Martyn emerged, in the mid-'60s, as a singer/songwriter ...

John Martyn is a name not spoken much in the world of music. But if you're especially sensitive to the inner well of music, that place where music takes on a different shade, a place where stronger ...

John Martyn, the British singer-songwriter-guitarist who came of age in the British folk scene in the 1960s and later developed a unique marriage of jazz and folk, died Thursday at age 60. No cause ...

John Martyn’s career spans the great British Folk and Blues boom of the 1960’s through to the present day. This concert was recorded at the Audimax venue in Hamburg on March 17th, 1978. I had high ...

In a world filled with happiness and hurt, there's a gaping chasm between those that are aware and those that aren't. When John Martyn passed away months before his 60th birthday in 2009, the world ...

Over the decades, Scottish musicians have made many classic albums that have stood the test of time. Today, we look back at Solid Air, by John Martyn WHEN Chris Blackwell, founder of the highly ...

Acoustic bass player, Danny Thompson, has died aged 86. The musician was a founding member of the British folk-rock band, Pentangle, and worked with the likes of Kate Bush, John Martyn and Roy Orbison ...