A unique tribute album dedicated to acoustic music legend John Martyn is due to be released in the UK on 15 August 2011.

The album, entitled Johnny Boy Would Love This – A Tribute To John Martyn, features thirty cover versions of Martyn’s songs recorded by such musical luminaries as Phil Collins, Snow Patrol, David Gray, Beck, Paolo Nutini, Morcheeba, Beth Orton and The Cure’s Robert Smith.

The package will also include a DVD that will contain interviews with a number of the artists, some special John Martyn performances and a music video.  All proceeds from the record will go to Martyn’s family.

Phil Collins was a long-term Martyn collaborator. Playing on John’s Grace and Danger and Glorious Fool albums, the pair became extremely close friends. Collins says: ‘John Martyn was unique. Completely unique. He had such power, such emotion, in his music that he could overwhelm the listener even when it was just him and an acoustic guitar.’

Robert Smith comments ‘I first heard Small Hours on the John Peel Show late in 1977 and fell instantly in love with it… One World very quickly became my favourite John Martyn album… And these beautiful songs were, are and always will be an inspiration and an enchantment”

Beth Orton paid tribute to Martyn, saying that ‘John Martyn was the very first folktroniker if ever there was one’

Tracklisting:
CD1 – David Gray – Let The Good Things Come; Clarence Fountain and Sam Butler – Glorious Fool; Robert Smith -Small Hours; Beck – Stormbringer; Ted Barnes (featuring Gavin Clark) – Over The Hill; The Swell Season – I Don’t Wanna Know; The Emprerors Of Wyoming – Bless The Weather; Lis Hannigan – Couldn’t Love You More; Vetiver – Go Easy; Skye Edwards – Solid Air; Cheryl Wilson – You Can Discover; Joe Bonamassa – The Easy Blues; Sonia Dada – Dancing; Sabrina Dinan – Certain Surprise; Paolo Nutini – One World.

CD2 – Snow Patrol – May You Never; Beth Orton – Go Down Easy; Bombay Bicycle Club – Fairytale Lullaby; Syd Kitchen – Fine Lines; Vashti Bunyan – Head And Heart; Morcheeba – Run Honey Run; Nicholas Barron – Angeline; John Smith – Walk To The Water; Judy Tzuke – Hurt In Your Heart; Jim Tullio – Road To Ruin; Oh My God – John Wayne; The Blackships – Rope Soul’d; Ultan Conlon – Back To Stay; Brendan Campbell – Anna; Phil Collins – Tearing And Breaking.

Johnny Boy Would Love This – A Tribute To John Martyn is released 15 August, 2011 via Hole In The Rain Music/Absolute