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Sample Track 1:
"Glorious Fool (Clarence Fountain and Sam Butler)" from Johnny Boy Would Love This...A Tribute to John Martyn Disc 1
Sample Track 2:
"Bless The Weather (The Emperors of Wyoming)" from Johnny Boy Would Love This...A Tribute to John Martyn Disc 1
Sample Track 3:
"May You Never (Snow Patrol)" from Johnny Boy Would Love This...A Tribute to John Martyn Disc 2
Sample Track 4:
"Walk To The Water (John Smith)" from Johnny Boy Would Love This...A Tribute to John Martyn Disc 2
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Global Beat Fusion: British and Cuban Folk Meet Arabic Psychedelia
By: Derek Beres

Watching John Martyn cue the drum machine on his epic folk journey, "Small Hours," you recognize that this man was way ahead of his time, implementing electronics in his genre the way Dylan ripped through electric guitar riffs.

I can't say I was ever a big John Martyn fan, but I am a fan of many musicians who were fans of his, and this small degree of separation has made Johnny Boy Would Love This... A Tribute to John Martyn (Hole in the Rain, August 16) a repeat player in my iPod.

Martyn is sometimes cited as a parent of trip-hop, due to his technological openness alongside men like Lee Perry back in the late '70s. Really, though, it is his lyrics that affect people most, which is why his 2009 death of double pneumonia hit friends and fans hard.

Poet and prose man, his catalog is brilliantly captured by Robert Smith, who gorgeously tackles "Small Hours," as well the folksier side of Beck, Beth Orton, David Gray and the excellently titled if somewhat misleading Bombay Bicycle Club (I was waiting for some hyper Bollywood). The thoroughness and yet comprehensiveness of this two-disc, 30-track collection is nearly as inspiring as Martyn's output himself. Former drummer and longtime friend Phil Collins tenderly ends this collection, though for some -- myself included -- Marty's legacy is just now becoming more prominent in my collection.

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