October (Claire Hamill album)

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October
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Studio album by Claire Hamill
Released 1973
Recorded October 1972
Studio The Manor Studio, Oxfordshire & Morgan Studios, London
Genre Folk-rock
Length34:29
Label Island
Producer Paul Samwell-Smith
Claire Hamill chronology
One House Left Standing
(1971)		October
(1973)		 Stage Door Johnnies
(1974)
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October is the second album by English singer-songwriter Claire Hamill, released in 1973. Hamill has identified the subject of the track "Speedbreaker" as being John Martyn with whom she had an affair. [2]

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Iain David McGeachy, known professionally as John Martyn, was a British singer-songwriter and guitarist. Over a 40-year career, he released 22 studio albums, and received frequent critical acclaim. Martyn began his career at age 17 as a key member of the British folk music scene, drawing inspiration from American blues and English traditional music, and signed with Island Records. By the 1970s he had begun incorporating jazz and rock into his sound on albums such as Solid Air (1973) and One World (1977), as well as experimenting with guitar effects and tape delay machines such as Echoplex. He struggled with substance abuse and domestic problems throughout the 1970s and 1980s, though continued to release albums while collaborating with figures such as Phil Collins and Lee "Scratch" Perry. He remained active until his death in 2009. He was described by The Times as "an electrifying guitarist and singer whose music blurred the boundaries between folk, jazz, rock and blues".

Contents

Track listing

All tracks composed by Claire Hamill; except where indicated

  1. "Island" (Steve Smith) - 3:21
  2. "To the Stars" - 2:03
  3. "Please Stay Tonight" - 3:02
  4. "Wall to Wall Carpeting" - 2:22
  5. "Speedbreaker" - 3:12
  6. "I Don't Get Any Older" (Mike Coles, Hamill) - 2:32
  7. "Warrior of the Water" - 2:56
  8. "The Artist" - 2:39
  9. "Baby What's Wrong (With You)" (Jimmy Reed) - 4:30
  10. "Sidney Gorgeous" - 1:56
  11. "Crying Under the Bedclothes" - 3:37
  12. "Peaceful" - 2:19

Personnel

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References

  1. ↑ "October - Claire Hamill | AllMusic". allmusic.com.
  2. ↑ John Neil Munro Some People Are Crazy: The John Martyn Story (2008)
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