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John Martyn: Piece By Piece

Len Brown, New Musical Express, 8 March 1986

ONLY A HEARTLESS bastard would knock old John. I mean. 20 years of love-drugged poetry, dedicated to ideal earth mothers, cossetted in an Arcadian atmosphere and lazily proposed in that half-cut, bluezy-woozy, nodding-off voice.

Total word count of piece: 324

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