{"id":11366,"date":"2015-06-09T18:23:58","date_gmt":"2015-06-09T17:23:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/?p=11366"},"modified":"2015-06-09T18:23:58","modified_gmt":"2015-06-09T17:23:58","slug":"introducing-martin-brown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2015\/06\/introducing-martin-brown\/","title":{"rendered":"Introducing: Martin Brown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"11369\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2015\/06\/introducing-martin-brown\/martin-brown2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Martin-Brown2.png?fit=595%2C520&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"595,520\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-title=\"Martin Brown2\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Martin-Brown2.png?fit=595%2C520&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11369\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Martin-Brown2.png?resize=595%2C520&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Martin Brown2\" width=\"595\" height=\"520\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">British Singer\/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Martin Brown has released five solo albums that are all his own work, writing every song himself and playing all the instruments as well! He has co-writing credits that include partnerships with composer Russ Ballard, Bassist and producer Ed Poole, and has songs that have been covered by Bonnie Tyler, Sam Brown, The Rattlers and Kim Alvord.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cPlenty of artists think their work is different and\/or special. The music of Martin Brown \u2014 who titled his first solo album Where Have I Been All Your Life? \u2014 might not be terribly different, but it\u2019s special. In fact, it\u2019s damn good.\u201d &#8211; Jeff King<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He takes influence from XTC and Crowded House and his best songs are melodically strong and are lyrically detailed. The first single \u201cHemel Hempstead Boy\u201d off Martin\u2019s second album \u201cButterflies\u201d received a lot of attention from the media. \u201cButterflies\u201d and his previous album \u201cWhere Have I Been All Your Life?\u201d are available to download on <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/gb\/artist\/martin-brown\/id183777493\" target=\"_blank\">iTunes<\/a> and you can find out more about Martin on his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.martinbrownmusic.com\" target=\"_blank\">website<\/a> and listen to his music on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.soundcloud.com\/martin_brown\" target=\"_blank\">soundcloud<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Just Zoe x<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British Singer\/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Martin Brown has released five solo albums that are all his own work, writing every song himself and playing all the instruments as well!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11370,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[57],"tags":[111,1732,1734,1736,1733,1730,1731,383,798,1375,1735],"class_list":["post-11366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-artists","tag-album","tag-bonnie-tyler","tag-butterflies","tag-ed-poole","tag-hemel-hempstead-boy","tag-martin-brown","tag-multi-instrumentalist","tag-russ-ballard","tag-sam-brown","tag-singersongwriter","tag-where-have-i-been-all-your-life"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5yMhl-2Xk","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9483,"url":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2015\/03\/introducing-mo-evans\/","url_meta":{"origin":11366,"position":0},"title":"Introducing:  Mo Evans","author":"Essentially Pop","date":"10\/03\/2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Mo Evans is a 19 year old singer\/songwriter who grew up in the tiny village of Path of Condie in Scotland. 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