Martin Johnson
@martinjohnson
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Joined: Sep 8, 2019
Last seen: Jun 11, 2026
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RE: What are you listening to at the moment?

Clarence White would have been 82 today. A little reminder that there were a few jewels in the later Byrd recordings.

5 days ago
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RE: There's no future in nostalgia

There is very little new under the sun.      

2 weeks ago
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RE: What are you listening to at the moment?

The Clash know what they were doing bringing Joe Ely to the UK. Joe Ely’s Live Shots is one of the great live albums.

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RE: Versions!

@paul-villers Those versions keep coming

1 month ago
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RE: What are you listening to at the moment?

@joe-nathan A much overlooked album

2 months ago
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RE: What are you listening to at the moment?

@joe-nathan Let's hope they issue a live album from the tour.

2 months ago
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RE: What are you listening to at the moment?

It is 45 years since the Dead released the acoustic live album Reckoning. Gillian Welch and David Rawlings are currently touring the US with a show ba...

2 months ago
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RE: What are you listening to at the moment?

Country Club by John Doe and the Sadies.

2 months ago
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RE: RIP Wes McGhee

I remember the buzz around his early career, particularly "Long Nights and Banjo Music" which fit right in with Joe Ely, Butch Hancock and Terry Allen...

2 months ago
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RE: What are you listening to at the moment?

@paul-villers You old softy, Paul. Will you be wearing your tie-dyes?

2 months ago
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RE: Joe Ely Has Died

@durks Thanks, Durks. I will definitely keep an eye out for the documentary. I've always had a soft spot for Hank Wangford over the years.

2 months ago
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RE: What are you listening to at the moment?

@paul-kerr Great album, great band and I had a good chat with Dave Alvin about it. You can’t knock anyone who gets what Miles Davis did in the ‘70s.

3 months ago
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RE: Nothing is real (maybe)

Who knows. We won’t really know until we get to the bottom of quantum physics. I did see a programme about how the human brain builds its own reality ...

3 months ago
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