Artist: Jimmy Martin
Farther Along - Obituary from Issue #58 July-Aug 2005
Jimmy Martin: 1927 to 2005
There was no use trying to steer a conversation with Jimmy Martin. This went double for keeping him on track during an interview, as I learned when I drove out to his place in Mount Juliet, Tennessee, last year. It wasn’t that I didn’t know what I was in for. I’d read Tom Piazza’s sensationalistic [...]
Not Fade Away - Reissue Review from Issue #56 March-April 2005
Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys Featuring Jimmy Martin – The King And The Father
By the time Jimmy Martin joined Bill Monroe’s Blue Grass Boys in the early 1950s (as a youngster of 22), Monroe had already assembled the basic elements of the genre, although bluegrass didn’t yet have a name. Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs had been and gone, and Monroe was miffed that other acts, like the [...]
Not Fade Away - Reissue Review from Issue #52 July-Aug 2004
Jimmy Martin – Don’t Cry To Me
Jimmy Martin probably deserves his reputation as a cantankerous hell-raiser. Still, it would be a mistake to assume his life is equal parts rhinestones and sequins, women and coon dogs, and booze. With this album, an extended soundtrack to the documentary King Of Bluegrass: The Life And Times Of Jimmy Martin, producer George Goehl continues [...]
Not Fade Away - Reissue Review from Issue #47 Sept-Oct 2003
Jimmy Martin – Songs Of A Free Born Man: Recordings 1959-1992
Probably the first album to feature a cover photo of the artist standing beside his own tombstone, this hodge-podge puts to test the proposition that Jimmy Martin has never made a bad record. In the end the collection scrapes through with a passing grade, for while it would make an abysmal introduction to his music, [...]
Not Fade Away - Reissue Review from Issue #36 Nov-Dec 2001
Jimmy Martin – The King Of Bluegrass
These dozen and a half songs date from Jimmy Martin’s lauded decade on the Decca label (1958-1969). It’s not surprising that his legend also includes his often larger-than-life manner, which can be self-servingly direct. Writer Tom Piazza’s exemplary article on Martin for the Oxford American magazine a few years ago was expanded into a book [...]
The Long Way Around - Feature from Issue #21 May-June 1999
Jimmy Martin – In the Hall of the Mountain King
I’m proud to say I’m a bluegrass singing man For it’s a lonesome sound, and the music of our land I’ve worked that hard road, played a lot of shows I sung many a song with Mr. Bill Monroe I’m proud to say I’m a bluegrass singing man – Jimmy Martin, “Bluegrass Singing Man” Jimmy [...]
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