Inside Out is an album released in 1973 by British singer-songwriter

Singer-songwriter

Singer-songwriters are musicians who write, compose and sing their own musical material including lyrics and melodies. As opposed to contemporary popular music singers who write their own songs, the term singer-songwriter describes a distinct form of artistry, closely associated with the...

 John Martyn. It was his fifth solo album, and his seventh if one includes the albums he made with his wife, Beverley

Beverley Martyn

Beverley Martyn is a singer, songwriter, and guitarist.While still a student, she was picked to front The Levee Breakers, a jug band who played the folk circuit in South East England...

. It was his jazziest release to date, featuring two fan-favorites, "Fine Lines" and "Make No Mistake," as well as two songs that he enjoyed playing live as jazz epics, "Outside In" and "Look In." The experimental nature of the album came as something of a shock to fans when it arrived directly after his best-loved album, the softer and more melodic Solid Air

Solid Air

Solid Air is a folk jazz album released in 1973 by John Martyn on Island Records.Contemporary reviews were favourable with music paper Sounds declaring that Solid Air flows beautifully and shows the entire spectrum of music that John Martyn has at his fingertips." The album has continued to...

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An 18-minute live version of "Outside In" appears on his self-distributed Live at Leeds

Live At Leeds (John Martyn album)

Live at Leeds is a John Martyn album. He independently released this album himself in an initial run of 10,000. The working title was "Ringside Seat", photos of Martyn and bassist Danny Thompson in a boxing ring were taken for a prospective cover, though never used...

album.

Track listing

All tracks composed & arranged by John Martyn

1. "Fine Lines"
2. "Eibhli Ghail Chiuin Ni Chearbhail" (Traditional, arranged Martyn)
3. "Ain't No Saint"
4. "Outside In"
5. "The Glory Of Love"
6. "Look In"
7. "Beverley"
8. "Make No Mistake"
9. "Ways To Cry"
10. "So Much In Love With You"

Bonus tracks

1. "Beverley/Make No Mistake"
2. "Fine Lines"
3. "Eibhli Ghail Chiuin Ni Chearbhail"
4. "Outside In"

Bonus tracks 1-3 recorded 10 October 1973 for BBC One Radio session for Bob Harris

Bob Harris (radio)

Robert Brinley Joseph "Bob" Harris, OBE , known as "Whispering" Bob Harris, is British radio host who currently works for BBC Radio 2, presenting music two nights a week...

' Sound of the Seventies; bonus track 4 recorded 23 May 1973 for same series

Personnel

John Martyn - vocals, guitar

• Danny Thompson
  Danny Thompson
  Daniel Henry Edward 'Danny' Thompson is an English multi-instrumentalist best known as a double bassist and businessman...
  
   - bass, double bass
• Chris Stewart - bass
• Steve Winwood
  Steve Winwood
  Stephen Lawrence "Steve" Winwood is an English international recording artist whose career spans nearly 50 years. He is a songwriter and a musician whose genres include soul music , R&B, rock, blues-rock, pop-rock, and jazz...
  
   - bass, keyboards
• Chris Wood
  Chris Wood (rock musician)
  Christopher Gordon Blandford 'Chris' Wood was a founding member of the English rock band Traffic, along with Steve Winwood, Jim Capaldi, and Dave Mason....
  
   - flute, horns
• Remi Kabaka
  Remi Kabaka
  Remi Kabaka is a Nigerian drummer who has performed with Ginger Baker, Steve Winwood, John Martyn, Hugh Masekela, on Rhythm of the Saints by Paul Simon, Short Cut Draw Blood by Jim Capaldi and on Band on the Run by Paul McCartney. His London-based son, also called Remi Kabaka, provided the voice of...
  
   - percussion
• Kesh Sathie - tabla
• Bobby Keyes - saxophone