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Carl Martin (musician)

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224: 507: 256:, Goodman wrote, "Carl Martin was the greatest entertainer I ever played with. He appears on several (Flying Fish and Yazoo) records, with or without his cronies Ted Bogan and Howard Armstrong... Carl and I became friends in the early Seventies, and his inspiration rules my musical character to this day. He's gone now, but I will never forget the night he met my grandmother at 'The Earl of Old Town.' Neither will she." 30: 202:, throughout the 1930s. His solo work recorded in the 1930s is also notable; songs such as "Crow Jane" and "Old Time Blues" feature his remarkable guitar accompaniment. From the 1930s onwards, Martin regularly played solo in the Chicago area, with a repertoire encompassing blues, 450: 544: 249:
paid tribute to Martin in his song "You Better Get It While You Can (The Ballad of Carl Martin)". On the liner notes of his posthumously-released
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on the 1935 recording of the latter's song "Let's Go Riding". The track was featured in the soundtrack of the 2001 film
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musician and vocalist who was proficient at playing several instruments and performed in various musical styles.
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Martin reunited with Bogan and Armstrong in the 1970s and played at
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This article about a blues musician from the United States is a
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as a member of several groups, including the Four Keys, the
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and blues music festivals across the United States.
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Big Stone Gap, Virginia
Pontiac, Michigan
Country blues
Appalachian music
Old-time music
Piedmont blues
East Coast blues
mandolin
bass violin
Piedmont blues
Big Stone Gap, Virginia
recordings
Tennessee Chocolate Drops
Ted Bogan
Howard Armstrong
old-time music
Appalachian music
Bumble Bee Slim
Tampa Red
jazz
country
Freddie Spruell
Ghost World
Carl Martin, Medford, Massachusetts, 1973. Photo by Jeff Titon.
folk
Pontiac, Michigan
Steve Goodman
LP record
List of country blues musicians

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