In that garden there’s a fruit tree and I eat from it daily “In my mind there’s a garden, full of beauty and darknessįull of sorrow and sweet things where my heart can be honest Lost Dog is followed by the cornerstone to the whole album Garden where Martin goes deep and uses the Garden of Eden as a metaphor for his life in a world that is crumbling from the centre outwards. I’ve always liked a singer-songwriter who records in the way he plays on stage there’s a frisson of excitement as they perform without the aid of a safety net and that’s what we get here. So, it was uncharted territory as I played this album one cold afternoon a couple of weeks ago. Powerful Contemporary Singer -Songwriter Channeling The Coffee Shops of Greenwich Village in 1963.Īs soon as I heard his voice in opening song Lost Dog I was pretty sure I’d at least seen Jeffrey Martin before, or probably reviewed an album many years ago – but I can’t find any record of either.