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Grace And Danger

~ John Martyn
4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
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  • Audio CD (2 Nov 1989)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: Universal / Island
  • ASIN: B000025XMG
  • Other Editions: MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 5,931 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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    #60 in  Music > World & Folk > English Folk
    #82 in  Music > World & Folk > Contemporary Folk

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Song Title Time Price
Listen  1. Some People Are Crazy 4:19£0.69
Listen  2. Grace And Danger 4:02£0.69
Listen  3. Lookin' On 5:12£0.69
Listen  4. Johnny Too Bad 3:56£0.69
Listen  5. Sweet Little Mystery 5:25£0.79
Listen  6. Hurt In Your Heart 4:57£0.69
Listen  7. Baby, Please Come Home 3:54£0.69
Listen  8. Save Some (For Me) 3:31£0.69
Listen  9. Our Love 3:56£0.69

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Martyn shared the break-up of his marriage to Beverly by tearing open his heart and exposing all his emotions on record. Those listeners who were experiencing similar problems found it torturously compelling. The three emotional killers run consecutively--"Sweet Little Mystery", "Hurt In Your Heart" and "Baby Please Come Home". Each one pleads, begs and reasons and inevitably you ask, how on earth could she leave him? The answer is in the penultimate track where our John announces, "I saved some for me" and "I didn't give it all". Ifyou survived this album you can survive anything in later life, as our John has.

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41 of 41 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars I don't believe it., 4 May 2004
Ever broken up with a wife? Or a long-term girlfriend? How did it make you feel? Pretty low? Start losing touch with reality? Or full of the joys of spring? I guess it affects us all in different ways. It sent John Martyn into a fit of raging creativity which resulted in this fantastic album, complete with the staggeringly wondrous drumming of an equally distraught Phil Collins. Which is a bit odd.
Martyn's music is pretty moody - "Solid Air" is THE 3 a.m. album. But I've never tried listening to this at 3 a.m. It'd scare the hell out me - I'd be terrified of ex-girlfriends crawling out from under the bed to get me. Martyn faces up to his own demons here only after he's travelled through self-loathing (for the first four tracks) and denial (for the next three - and what tracks!) with his admission "You didn't get it all because I saved some for me...I cheated on the side."
But none of that is very important. What makes this stand out from other "break-up" albums is the the incredible efforts Martyn makes to get just the right sounds for each track. Take, for instance, the incredibly piercing guitars on "Baby Please Come Home", whose notes are like terrible fingers trying to break into the soul; or the crashing cymbals and choppy rhythms of "Looking On", which sound like a mind unable to settle, unable to find any answers to any of the questions asked by the lyrics. If you listened to that at 3 a.m., you wouldn't sleep for a week afterwards. And what about those drums! To hear that sort of sensitivity, you'd never believe this was the same Phil Collins that ruined Genesis. Crazy what a divorce can do for a man!
The three killers come in the middle, beginning with "Sweet Little Mystery" - here the pace slows a little and Martyn makes room for simple sadness; but it's all so exquisitely executed, and so generously lucid, that the listener doesn't take the pain on board, only the sense of hope which comes from hearing a man meeting such pain with such monolithic creativity, and gratitude that he's made such efforts to express that pain so lucidly. It's really like nothing else.
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Quality Song Writing, 26 Feb 2001
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To show that the best music/literature and art in general comes from bad times one should listen to this fine album. It is written in part as a result of a marriage break up and one can really feel the pain he is going through on some of the tracks. A much underrated performer and songwriter and a great introduction if you don't already own any John Martyn.
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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars NOT easy listening, 24 Sep 2002
By Rich (Wurzel Country, U.K.) - See all my reviews
Listening to this astonishing work is like actually watching his relationship disintegrate. It runs the whole gamut of post-separation emotions, from anger to despair -- "Baby Please Come Home" is the most plaintive, heart-rending and truly pathetic cry for help you will ever hear. These are the words and thoughts of a man clearly on the edge. Brilliant but disturbing, especially if you've been there yourself.
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