It might be just another evening when you go in to a Martyn Joseph concert – but it certainly won’t be when you come out.....
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 album Vegas deserving every one of its 4 stars in a recent MOJO review.
A mean guitar player with a powerful voice, 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”!
He has an enviable high energy connectivity with his audience whether it’s an arts centre in his native Wales or a 5,000 strong crowd at the Royal Albert Hall and he’s never devoid of a touch of wry, often topical humour. He darts chameleon-like between mighty and meek songs, railing against the broken promise playground of global leaders, holding tight to anti war anthems and then “disarming” for unexpectedly fragile love songs.
It 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 but all part of the constantly evolving musical journey of a man who never fails to deliver....
