{"id":10603,"date":"2026-04-29T09:14:31","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T09:14:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/beverley-martyn-has-died-aged-79-154427\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T09:14:31","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T09:14:31","slug":"beverley-martyn-has-died-aged-79-154427","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/beverley-martyn-has-died-aged-79-154427\/","title":{"rendered":"Beverley Martyn has died aged 79"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The English\u00a0folk\u00a0singer, songwriter and guitarist Beverley Martyn has died aged 79.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The English\u00a0folk\u00a0singer, songwriter and guitarist Beverley Martyn has died aged 79.<\/p>\n

Born Beverley Kutner on March 24, 1947 near Coventry, she started out performing vocals and 12-string guitar in mid-\u201960s jug band The Levee Breakers, playing the folk circuit in south east England.<\/p>\n

The Levee Breakers\u2019 single \u201cBabe I\u2019m Leaving You\u201d was released in 1965; that same year, she also appeared on the sleeve of Bert Jansch\u2019s album, It Don\u2019t Bother Me.<\/p>\n

Signed to Decca\u2019s new Deram imprint as a solo artist, she recorded a brace of singles during 1966 and 1967, produced by Denny Cordell and featuring Jimmy Page, John Paul Jones, Nicky Hopkins, John Renbourn and Andy White.<\/p>\n

Written by Randy Newman, \u201cHappy New Year\u201d was the first single release on Deram.<\/p>\n

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After befriending Paul Simon, she was invited to guest on Simon & Garfunkel\u2019s 1967 album Bookends, delivering a spoken word segment on the track \u201cFakin\u2019 It\u201d; she also appeared as their guest at the Monterey Pop Festival.<\/p>\n

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The following year, she met John Martyn, whom she married.<\/p>\n

They collaborated on two albums,\u00a0Stormbringer! (recorded in Woodstock)\u00a0and\u00a0The Road To Ruin (both 1970), before Martyn resumed his solo career.<\/p>\n

Beverley continued to be involved with Martyn\u2019s career until their divorce in 1980, when she retired from music.<\/p>\n

She made a comeback in the late \u201980s, touring with Loudon Wainwright III and recording with Wilko Johnson in the \u201990s. She released two solo albums: No Frills in 1998 and The Phoenix And The Turtle in 2014.<\/p>\n

Speaking to Uncut in 2014, she reflected on the autobiographical nature of The Phoenix And The Turtle.<\/p>\n

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\u201cMy Last album was No Frills in about 2000, but I\u2019ve always kept singing. We started work about two years ago, but stopped for a while because I was quite ill. It was recorded in Wales, in Mark Pavey\u2019s studio. I would start just with guitar and a click track, and through the magic of computer we\u2019d send a track to Matt Malley, ex-Counting Crows, and Victor Bisetti, ex-Los Lobos, in California. They would put the bass and drums on, then other things were added. It still has that in-a-room feel, it sounds like an old style analogue record. It\u2019s very me, very transatlantic.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve recorded \u2018Going To Germany\u2019 and \u2018When The Levee Breaks\u2019, which are songs I used to do with my old \u20186os jug band, The Levee Breakers. \u2018Reckless Jane, was started in \u201974 with Nick Drake. When John Martyn and I lived in Hampstead, Nick lived one stop down the tube line, he\u2019d come and babysit sometimes. We started writing \u2018Reckless Jane\u2019 one day as a bit of a joke. I had the guitar and he was sitting on the floor, trying to look small and not be in the way, as usual! I couldn\u2019t look at it for a long time after he died, but finally I decided to finish it. It\u2019s a pastoral English thing \u2013 the strings are a tribute to Nick. \u2018Women And Malt Whisky\u2019 is about John.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s a verse about our son, who is a bit wild. He didn\u2019t have a good father\u2019s hand, John didn\u2019t teach him good things. Another line is about Davy Graham, John\u2019s hero, and Bobby Dylan, who was mine. The whole album is very personal.\u201d<\/p>\n

A memoir, Sweet Honesty \u2013 The Beverley Martyn Story, was published in 2011.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

The post Beverley Martyn has died aged 79<\/a> appeared first on UNCUT<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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