Post by Puffin on Sept 24, 2022 15:10:02 GMT
John Martyn (11 September 1948 - 29 January 2009)
Vocal Range: F2 - F♯5
Significant High Notes:
F♯5 ("Running Up That Harbour")
C5 ("Never Say Never")
B4 ("Coming in on Time")
B♭4 ("Big Muff")
A4 ("Climb the Walls", "Don’t Want to Know", "Never Say Never", "Watching Her Eyes", "You Know")
G♯4 ("Amsterdam", "Coming in on Time", "Couldn’t Love You More", "Dealer", "Dreams by the Sea", "Fisherman’s Dream", "I Don’t Know", "Lookin’ On", "Running Up That Harbour", "Save Some (For Me)")
G4 ("Acid Rain", "After Tomorrow Night", "Big Muff", "Call Me", "Certain Surprise", "Climb the Walls", "Cure", "Dead On Arrival", "The Easy Blues", "Fishin’ Blues", "Glorious Fool", "Hearts and Keys", "I’d Rather Be the Devil (Devil Got My Woman)", "Lookin’ On", "Never Say Never", "One World", "Our Love", "Over the Rainbow", "Pescanel (Get Back Home)", "Solid Air", "Some People Are Crazy", "Sugar Lump", "Watching Her Eyes", "You Know")
F♯4 ("Coming in on Time", "Give Us a Ring", "Traffic-Light Lady")
F4 ("Acid Rain", "Amsterdam", "After Tomorrow Night", "Back to Stay", "Certain Surprise", "Cocaine", "Couldn’t Love You More", "Cure", "Dealer", "Don’t Want to Know", "Dreams by the Sea", "The Easy Blues", "Excuse Me Mister", "Fisherman’s Dream", "Glory Box", "Go Down Easy", "Go Easy", "Go Out and Get It", "Hearts and Keys", "Hold On My Heart", "Hole in the Rain", "How Fortunate the Man With None", "Mad Dog Days", "One World", "Over the Rainbow", "Perfect Hustler", "Pescanel (Get Back Home)", "Please Fall in Love With Me", "Save Some (For Me)", "Small Hat", "Solid Air", "Some People Are Crazy", "Sweet Little Mystery", "Tree Green", "Watching Her Eyes")
E4 ("Baby Come Home", "Baby, Please Come Home", "Call Me", "Dancing", "Death Don’t Have No Mercy", "Father Time", "Fishin’ Blues", "The Gardeners", "Give Us a Ring", "Glorious Fool", "Goin’ Down to Memphis", "Head and Heart", "He’s Got All the Whiskey", "Hurt in Your Heart", "John the Baptist", "I Don’t Know", "London Conversation", "Mad Dog Days", "The Man in the Station", "May You Never", "New Day", "Our Love", "Road to Ruin", "Sapphire", "Sing a Song of Summer", "When It’s Dark", "Would You Believe Me", "You Don’t Know What Love Is")
Significant Low Notes:
D3 ("Baby, Please Come Home", "Certain Surprise", "Cocaine", "Don’t Want to Know", "Fairy Tale Lullaby", "Glory Box", "Go Down Easy", "Goin’ Down to Memphis", "Grace and Danger", "Hole in the Rain", "I Don’t Know", "In the Evening", "The Man in the Station", "Over the Hill", "The River", "Road to Ruin", "Same Difference", "Singin’ in the Rain", "Tree Green", "Wildflower", "Winin’ Boy Blues", "Would You Believe Me")
C♯3 ("Annie Says", "Baby Come Home", "Back Down the River", "Ballad of an Elder Woman", "Can’t Live Without", "Dreams by the Sea", "Feel So Good", "Go Easy", "Jack the Lad", "Knuckledy Crunch and Slippledee-Slee Song", "London Conversation", "May You Never", "Run Honey Run", "Strange Fruit", "Traffic-Light Lady")
C3 ("Back to Stay", "Certain Surprise", "Cocaine", "Cool in This Life", "Cooltide", "Cry Me A River", "Don’t Think Twice It’s Alright", "Don’t You Go", "Dusty", "The Easy Blues", "Feel So Bad", "The Field of Play", "The Gardeners", "Glorious Fool", "God’s Song", "Golden Girl", "Hold On My Heart", "Hole in the Rain", "How Fortunate the Man With None", "I’d Rather Be the Devil (Devil Got My Woman)", "In the Evening", "Just Now", "One World", "The River", "Rope-Soul’d", "Sandy Grey", "Sapphire", "Save Some (For Me)", "Singin’ in the Rain", "Smiling Stranger", "Solid Air", "Tree Green", "Woodstock")
B2 ("Call Me", "Death Don’t Have No Mercy", "Fairy Tale Lullaby", "Fishin’ Blues", "Fly on Home", "Hello Train", "I Don’t Know", "Knuckledy Crunch and Slippledee-Slee Song", "London Conversation", "May You Never", "Number Nine", "Rolling Home", "Run Honey Run", "She Moved Through the Fair", "Sing a Song of Summer", "Stormbringer", "Traffic-Light Lady", "Wildflower", "Woodstock")
B♭2 ("Dreams by the Sea", "Feel So Bad", "Feel So Good", "The Gardeners", "Golden Girl", "Just Now", "Mama T", "Sandy Grey", "So Sweet", "Strange Fruit", "This Time", "You Don’t Know What Love Is")
A2 ("Call Me", "The Cat Won’t Work Tonight", "Cooltide", "Number Nine", "Parcels", "She Moved Through the Fair", "Sing a Song of Summer", "Small Town Talk", "Stormbringer", "Wildflower", "Would You Believe Me")
G♯2 ("Couldn’t Love You More", "Death Don’t Have No Mercy", "Dreams by the Sea", "Mama T", "Parcels")
G2 ("The Cat Won’t Work Tonight", "Certain Surprise", "The Field of Play", "Number Nine")
F♯2 ("Baby Come Home")
F2 ("Cool in This Life", "Glory Box", "How Fortunate the Man With None", "One World", "Strange Fruit", "You Don’t Know What Love Is")
{About John Martyn}
John Martyn was a British singer and guitarist, known best for his work in the 1970s, with songs straddling many genres, most of which were underpinned by a strong basis in British folk music.
At the beginning of his career in the 1960s, his singing style was fairly typical of folk singer-songwriters of the period, a clean sound with very little risk or adventure. He opted for a less open sound in the 1970s, when his guitar work was also getting more experimental, and often sounded like he was mumbling or singing out of the side of his mouth.
The 1980s were not the best time for his music, but he became a bit more confident with his singing in the fourth octave, with many more high notes, which were often very light in timbre. Years of touring led to a lower, more gravelly tone in the 1990s, and while he regained some of his clarity in the early 2000s, he was often dropping the key of his biggest songs by several tones. He died in 2009, aged 60.
John Martyn was a British singer and guitarist, known best for his work in the 1970s, with songs straddling many genres, most of which were underpinned by a strong basis in British folk music.
At the beginning of his career in the 1960s, his singing style was fairly typical of folk singer-songwriters of the period, a clean sound with very little risk or adventure. He opted for a less open sound in the 1970s, when his guitar work was also getting more experimental, and often sounded like he was mumbling or singing out of the side of his mouth.
The 1980s were not the best time for his music, but he became a bit more confident with his singing in the fourth octave, with many more high notes, which were often very light in timbre. Years of touring led to a lower, more gravelly tone in the 1990s, and while he regained some of his clarity in the early 2000s, he was often dropping the key of his biggest songs by several tones. He died in 2009, aged 60.
{Album vocal ranges}
London Conversation (1967) (A2 - F4)
The Tumbler (1968) (A2 - E4)
Stormbringer (1970) (A2 - G♯4)
The Road to Ruin (1970) (G♯2 - F♯4)
Bless the Weather (1971) (B♭2 - G4)
Solid Air (1973) (G♯2 - G♯4)
One World (1977) (F2 - B♭4)
Grace & Danger (1980) (C3 - G♯4)
Glorious Fool (1981) (C3 - C5)
Sapphire (1984) (C3 - B4)
Cooltide (1991) (G2 - G4)
The Church With One Bell (1998) (F2 - F4)
Glasgow Walker (2000) (F2 - Eb4)
On the Cobbles (2004) (F♯2 - E4)
London Conversation (1967) (A2 - F4)
The Tumbler (1968) (A2 - E4)
Stormbringer (1970) (A2 - G♯4)
The Road to Ruin (1970) (G♯2 - F♯4)
Bless the Weather (1971) (B♭2 - G4)
Solid Air (1973) (G♯2 - G♯4)
One World (1977) (F2 - B♭4)
Grace & Danger (1980) (C3 - G♯4)
Glorious Fool (1981) (C3 - C5)
Sapphire (1984) (C3 - B4)
Cooltide (1991) (G2 - G4)
The Church With One Bell (1998) (F2 - F4)
Glasgow Walker (2000) (F2 - Eb4)
On the Cobbles (2004) (F♯2 - E4)
