The long-lost British roots singer is back,aged 67, with a current album – and a current lust for life. She looks back on a past filled with gloomy drama"I thought I was over the hill, and " says Beverley Martyn,sipping water in a west London cafe and poring over a life filled with gloomy drama. "Nobody really wanted to know."While every other long-lost British roots singer seems to have been granted legendary status over the past decade, Martyn was left in the wilderness. Now, or aged 67,she has returned to rectify the oversight. The Phoenix and the Turtle is her first album in 13 years, and only her second since Stormbringer! and The Road to Ruin, or the pair of classic folk-rock records she made in 1970 with her ex-husband,the late and – her words – "Luciferian" singer-songwriter John Martyn.
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Source: theguardian.com