John Martyn - Sunday's Child (remastered expanded version)

"Simply one of the best British albums made in the 1970's...it just seems to get better all the time..." (ZigZag 3/77)

original album:
01 One Day Without You
02 Lay It All Down
03 Root Live
04 My Baby Girl
05 Sunday's Child
06 Spencer The Rover
07 Clutches
08 Message
09 Satisfied Mind
10 You Can Discover
11 Call Me Crazy

bonus tracks:
12 Ellie Rhee (previously unreleased)
13 Satisfied Mind (First mix, previously unreleased))
14 One Day Without You (BBC Radio One, John Peel Session 1975)
15 You Can Discover (BBC Radio One, John Peel Session 1975)
16 My Baby Girl (BBC Radio One, John Peel Session 1975)
17 The Message (BBC Radio One, John Peel Session 1975)
18 Spencer The Rover (BBC Radio One, John Peel Session 1975)

All tracks written & arranged by John Martyn, except tracks 6 & 9 (trad. arr. J.Martyn)

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Sunday's Child, Remastered And Expanded (2005) Sunday’s Child was recorded and mixed during August 1974 at Island Studios in Hammersmith and released in January 1975. The sessions were short but intensive, producing songs of considerable contrasts from the rock ‘n’ roll Root Love and Clutches, to the traditional folk song Spencer The Rover. The overall feel of the album is one of contentment and John called it “the family album, very happy purely romantic...a nice period.” (…) John is an incurable romantic who sings from his heart; no other artist sings with such commitment and emotion. People fall in and out of love listening his magical songs of deep sensitivity. John’s music is a barometer of our emotional state, our well being can be measured by the songs we listen to; passion and spirituality are at the heart of them all and in the heart of the man himself. (…) Sunday’s Child is a paradoxical album of immensely varied songs, most charming and passionate, celebrating John’s contentment with family ideals, “She's the sweetest in the whole wide world. She wears her hair way up in a curl, just to show she's my very own baby girl.” Others have undertones of his longing for the single life with all its freedom and adventure, “She got me, yeah, she got me in her clutches.” What could be sweeter than love? (John Hillarby, September 2005)

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John Martyn's follow-up to 1973's Inside Out is a much more song-oriented, less experimental effort which concentrates on the joys of home and family. Sunday's Child skillfully blends the sensual ("You Can Discover") with the sweet ("My Baby Girl"), the modern ("Root Love") with the traditional ("Spencer the Rover"), and the tormented ("Sunday's Child") with the satisfied ("Satisfied Mind," "Call Me Crazy") while retaining its cohesiveness. The record, his sixth on his own, shows the many facets of Martyn's playing, from his effects-driven electric guitar to his signature acoustic work, which can be both aggressive ("The Message") and gentle ("Lay It All Down"). This album contains a collection of strong original songs, as well as a pair of wonderful covers: the traditional British ballad "Spencer the Rover" and the country standard "Satisfied Mind." His last recording of new material for three years, Sunday's Child is a fine farewell to this period of Martyn's ever-changing career. (Brett Hartenbach, AMG)

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