One World
John Martyn

So I found “One World” by John Martyn to be a pretty pedestrian late 70’s R&B effort, that easily could have been the sleazy porn soundtrack to the old SNL skit featuring Tim Meadows called – “Velvet Jones – The Ladies Man”… Gee – I wonder what “Big Muff” could be about… Ugh… Anyways, I had pretty much written it off completely – and then the final song “Small Hours” came on… Primarily an instrumental for all intents-and-purposes, and I found it to be absolutely amazing… Reminded me of a less-raw, way-more melodic “Maggotbrain” by Funkadelic… “Small Hours” is probably a 5-stars out of 7-stars in my little rating system, as it’s that good – and it really came out of absolutely nowhere, as the rest of the album is pretty much shite, but based on that 1 fabulous song, I’ll give it a 2 – but you’ve been warned…

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