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BBC award-winning Martyn Joseph has announced a 28-date UK autumn tour showcasing this new album – amazingly his 30th recording. Few singer songwriters have the hammer blow “once seen, never forgotten” effect of this colossally talented and charismatic Welshman – one of acoustic music’s brightest stars. Shades of Springsteen, Knopfler and Dave Matthews there may be - but Joseph is a performer like no other - his diverse current album 'Vegas' recently gaining 4 stars in a Mojo review. Bob Harris has praised the ”outstanding lyrical intelligence” of his songs which can range from rock to blues, jazz and even, according to one critic , “funk folk”! A mean guitar player with a powerful voice, he was voted Best Male Artist in the BBC’s Welsh Music Awards and with a string of Top 50 hits to his name (including "Dolphins Make Me Cry" and "Please Sir") he has been in demand on both sides of the Atlantic for over two decades, touring with the likes of Art Garfunkel and Jools Holland and winning fans everywhere with his uncanny fusion of material. This album traces the organic morphing of some of his best loved songs – the Kosovo lament "The Good In Me Is Dead", the fervent "Proud Valley Boy" of his roots and the exquisite "Have An Angel Walk With Her" – songs that have taken on a life of their own, delivered with ever more passion, sometimes barely recognisable now from their original format. Tracks: Kiss The World Beautiful / Sing To My Soul / Proud Valley Boy / Arizona Dreams / Dic Penderyn / Strange Way / Can't Breathe / Weight Of The World / Working Mother / Have An Angel Walk With Her / Please Sir / The Good In Me Is Dead / This Being Woman / Turn Me Tender / Cardiff Bay.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
There are a couple of existing "best of compilations" already available from the man that has been called both "The Welsh Springsteen" and "The Welsh Woody Guthrie" ; Thunder & Rainbows gives you the songs in their original "studio" form and "Don't talk About Love" gives you a similar (but not identical) set of songs in concert atmosphere.
However, on his new CD "Evolved" you get 15 wonderful Martyn Joseph-written songs as he plays them today, fully grown-up and with the perspective of having lived with them on stage and on tour for many years. Here, they are freshly recorded "as live" with just his voice, his guitar (and in one case) his foot. This is a truly lovely-sounding album, which gives the impression Martyn and his guitar are there in the room or car with you.
Wales and its heritage feature highly in the stories told. We have the sad tale of Dic Penderyn, hanged for something he didn't do in the 1830s; Paul Robeson visiting The Valleys in the 1940s , the gloriously sinister "Sing to My Soul", written from the perspective of a child lost in the Aberfan mudslide of 1966; the plaintive story of a redundant miner in "Please Sir"; and the somewhat happier tale of being a dad and living and bringing up your kids by the side of Cardiff Bay. However, Martyn spends quite a lot of his time outside Wales, and that is reflected in songs like "Working Mother" (about prostitution in Kings Cross), "The Good in Me Is Dead" (about ethnic cleansing in Bosnia) and the (more upbeat and cheerful) Arizona Dreams.
Martyn claims not to be able to write proper "love songs", but in "Can't Breathe" and "Turn Me Tender" on this CD he has written two wonderful examples.
This is a great CD, whether you currently have no Martyn Joseph CDs or ten. Buy it! It should not disappoint.
However, on his new CD "Evolved" you get 15 wonderful Martyn Joseph-written songs as he plays them today, fully grown-up and with the perspective of having lived with them on stage and on tour for many years. Here, they are freshly recorded "as live" with just his voice, his guitar (and in one case) his foot. This is a truly lovely-sounding album, which gives the impression Martyn and his guitar are there in the room or car with you.
Wales and its heritage feature highly in the stories told. We have the sad tale of Dic Penderyn, hanged for something he didn't do in the 1830s; Paul Robeson visiting The Valleys in the 1940s , the gloriously sinister "Sing to My Soul", written from the perspective of a child lost in the Aberfan mudslide of 1966; the plaintive story of a redundant miner in "Please Sir"; and the somewhat happier tale of being a dad and living and bringing up your kids by the side of Cardiff Bay. However, Martyn spends quite a lot of his time outside Wales, and that is reflected in songs like "Working Mother" (about prostitution in Kings Cross), "The Good in Me Is Dead" (about ethnic cleansing in Bosnia) and the (more upbeat and cheerful) Arizona Dreams.
Martyn claims not to be able to write proper "love songs", but in "Can't Breathe" and "Turn Me Tender" on this CD he has written two wonderful examples.
This is a great CD, whether you currently have no Martyn Joseph CDs or ten. Buy it! It should not disappoint.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
It's hard to recommend this album enough in fact. Probably the most important album released by this incredibly gifted (and under-recognised) singer/songwriter.
The beauty and passion of these songs is evident here more than on any other versions from previous albums. Martyn's more recent albums have managed to capture a lot more of the honesty and urgency for which his lives performances are near legendary, but nothing has come near to what 'Evolved' has achieved.
I would urge anyone who loves music, whether you have heard Martyn's music before or not, to add 'Evolved' to your basket and spend a little over an hour in the company of a master of the craft. His music will enrage and soothe you, and resonate with your soul.
The beauty and passion of these songs is evident here more than on any other versions from previous albums. Martyn's more recent albums have managed to capture a lot more of the honesty and urgency for which his lives performances are near legendary, but nothing has come near to what 'Evolved' has achieved.
I would urge anyone who loves music, whether you have heard Martyn's music before or not, to add 'Evolved' to your basket and spend a little over an hour in the company of a master of the craft. His music will enrage and soothe you, and resonate with your soul.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
"Evolved" is a fantastic cd containing re-workings of older songs penned by Mr Joseph throughout his career to date. Heartfelt, stirring anthems and almost wistful quieter moments brought together in these updated renditions and superbly re-recorded
Most Recent Customer Reviews
Worth the wait.
This is simply the best album I have heard in a long time, containing some of the best music I have had the good fortune to stumble upon. Read more
Published 8 months ago by T. Smith
The changing face of Martyn Joseph....
A good song is an evolving process, particularly for a great live musician... and Martyn is just that. Read more
Published on 13 Jun 2009 by Mr. Keith E. Neville
a man, his voice and a guitar
When I became aware that this album was coming out my first impression was "do I really need another MJ's Greatest Hits? Read more
Published on 7 Jun 2009 by B. Shorton
A poet at his best
Ask many mainstream artists to issue a CD of re-workings of their most popular songs and they will scream NEVER! Read more
Published on 19 Feb 2009 by Claptonite
Evolved with a brain and a heart
I haven't heard any Martyn Joseph stuff for years, but by all accounts he's been a busy chap in the gap; now over 16 albums now! Read more
Published on 29 Jan 2009 by Andy B
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