Santana & John Martyn
Posted by Frank on July 6, 2018, 4:16 pm
I've always liked Santana's cover of John Martyn's 'Don't Want to Know', even if seemed a strange choice for an American band to cover a British singer who'd never achieved any degree of success in the US. But having recently found an article from 'Mojo' magazine remembering the seminal album 'Solid Air', from whence the song came, it turns out the feeling may have been reciprocal. Journalist Mat Snow recounts the time in 1973 when John had returned from the US having supported Traffic..... 'Martyn barely had time to relax with the Michael Moorcock and Philip K Dick novels to which he was addicted or his favourite Pharaoh Sanders, John Coltrane, Weather Report, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Little Feat, Santana and Chieftains records before he was off on tour around England with Danny Thompson.'
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Link: Don't Want to Know