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JEFFREY MARTIN

Thank God We Left The Garden LOOSE

9/10

n so often sounds like something you might have heard for the first time in an early-’70s bedsit, you’re tempted to rewrite Jeffrey Martin’s life. In an alternative biography, he arrives in New York during the late-’60s singer-songwriter boom, playing the same Greenwich Village rooms Dylan set on fire a few years earlier. He signs to Elektra, moves to LA. A debut album is universally acclaimed but sells modestly. Elektra drop

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