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One thing that could be said for the quasi benevolence of record companies and artist management back in the day is that a measure of quality control was brought to bear from a slightly independent source, which prevented accidents like these from ever seeing a record press. Sure, once established, artists inevitably issued archive recordings that could be enjoyed or dismissed wistfully with a cluck of the tongue, oh those silly boys! But here we have somebody who thought what JOHN MARTYN needed to improve on his debut was to return to Scottish elocution school and inseminate it with a US southern blues style, so the very first and only Cajun canterbury album. This dampens the potential counterbalancing of fine guest playing on guitars and flutes. As Monty Python once said, and said, and said, "silly silly silly".