Mojo 4 Music — The maverick folk legend has died... more info

BBC News - UK — Singer-songwriter John Martyn, who grew up in Glasgow, has died aged 60, it is announced. more info

Spinner.com — Filed under: News, R.I.P.Spinner.com: John Martyn, a mainstay of the British folk boom of the late '60s and early '70s, has died in Ireland at age 60. The cause of his death is undisclosed. Martyn recently had health problems most likely related to ... more info

MSN Music — Soulful, influential British songwriter John Martyn dead at 60 more info

The Mirror — Led Zeppelin singer Robert Plant has been awarded a CBE in the New Year Honours list after selling more than 200 million albums with the band. more info

The Mirror — Led Zeppelin singer Robert Plant has been awarded a CBE in the New Year Honours list after selling more than 200 million albums with the band. more info

Guardian Music — Arthur Russell trained as a cellist but became a New York disco auteur, collaborating with Talking Heads and Philip Glass, among others, and filling dancefloors with his proto-garage music. He would surely have been better known in his lifetime had a... more info

Totally Fuzzy — mirror said... The Complete John Martyn Decades Alive: Vol. 1: 1979 / Vol. 2: 1986 / Vol. 3: 2002 http://mirrorat.blogspot.com Bluesmen said... Borago:... [Visit the blog for the full post] more info

All About Jazz — In the late 1960s it was a novel, far-reaching idea when folk-rooted guitarists in the United States and England began toying with the harmonies and syncopations of jazz. (Now such hybrids are taken for granted in the music of Norah Jones or Grizzly ... more info

New York Times — John Martyn, an idiosyncratic Scottish singer and songwriter, made his first New York appearance in more than a decade with a brief yet heartening set at Joe’s Pub on Thursday night. more info