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Beverley Martyn: Bush Hall, London

Ian Gittins, The Guardian, 30 April 2014

BEVERLEY MARTYN has quite the folk backstory. A teenage paramour of Bert Jansch, who taught her to play guitar, she recorded and toured America with Simon and Garfunkel before recording two formidable albums, Stormbringer! and The Road to Ruin, in 1970 with her then husband, John Martyn.

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