Grady Martin - Roughneck Blues 1949-1956
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Artist: Grady MartinEdition: Music CD
Format: Import, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2007-11-27
Music Label: Rev-Ola Bandstand
Soundtracks:
- San Antonio Rose - Grady Martin & The Slew Foot Five
- My Window Faces the South - Red Foley, Grady Martin & His Winging Strings
- A-Sleeping at the Foot of the Bed - Little Jimmy Dickens
- Chattanoogie Shoe Shine Boy - Red Foley
- Diesel Smoke, Dangerous Curves - Burl Ives, , Grady Martin & The Slew Foot Five
- (Now and Then There's) A Fool Such as I - Dottie Dillard, , Grady Martin & The Slew Foot Five, Jack Shook
- Hillbilly Fever - Little Jimmy Dickens
- Birmingham Bounce - Red Foley
- Don't You Worry - Cecil Gant
- It Ain't Gonna Be Like That - Cecil Gant
- I'm a Big Boy Now - Justin Tubb
- My Girl and His Girl - Danny Dill
- Roughneck Blues - Al Terry
- Bird Dog - Don Woody
- Juke Joint Johnny - Red Sovine
- I'm a One-Woman Man - Johnny Horton
- Baby's Gone - Vernon Claud
- Shake Baby Shake - Wayne Raney
- All I Can Do Is Cry - Wayne Walker
- It Would Be a Doggone Lie - Autry Inman
- I'm Hungry for Your Lovin' - Danny Dill
- Three Alley Cats - Roy Hall
- Rock Billy Boogie - Johnny Burnette
- Crazy, Crazy Lovin' - Johnny Carroll & His Hot Rocks
- You're Barking Up the Wrong Tree - Don Woody
- Bigelo 6-200 - Brenda Lee,
- Everybody's Rockin' But Me - Bobby Lord
- I'm Coming Home - Johnny Horton
- Rock Around with Ollie Vee - Buddy Holly
- Modern Don Juan - Buddy Holly
- Train Kept A-Rollin' - Johnny Burnette Trio
- When My Dreamboat Comes Home - Grady Martin & The Slew Foot Five
Free Music Notes for Roughneck Blues 1949-1956
Free Music Review: The link between country and rock
Hit: 5 Stars
What a fun album of great country and rockabilly tunes. Grady Martin is of course the legendary and often uncredited sideman whose work as part of the Owen Bradley's A-team made him one of the top guitarists of the era.
While not as slick as the Chet Atkins, Grady Martin's work clearly illuminates the intersection of Western Swing, Honky Tonk Country and Rockabilly that was brewing in the early to mid-1950s. While many draw a direct line from the Blues to Rock, a more accurate map passes through these other areas of popular rural music in the southern and western United States. Jeff Beck may owe a greater debt to Bob Wills and Johnny Horton than most people think.
Throughout the disc, Martin shines with his raw, aggressive attack and biting tone. Pioneering use of slapback echo, distortion and string bending are here too, but what ties all these pieces together is Martin's terrific sense of composition. Every guitar part is just right for what the song and the vocalist needs - it is no wonder that Owen Bradley depended upon Martin to make hit records day after day.
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Grady Martin plays the memorable riff on Roy Orbison's "Oh Pretty Woman." That alone makes him candidate for Rock'n'Roll sainthood. However, he also helped invent 'guitar distortion.' A tube was blown in the middle of a take at a Marty Robbins session and the resulting fuzz-toned solo was left in the song, the 1961 smash hit "Don't Worry." Besides Chet Atkins, Martin was the only studio musician to play with both Hank Williams AND Elvis Presley. Grady Martin is one of the true legends of Nashville's original "A-Team". Though studio musicians in those days rarely received credit for their work, Martin's efforts didn't go unnoticed. Producers often designated him "session leader," which meant he led the musicians and directed the impromptu arrangements that became a landmark of Nashville sessions. Here are 32 of Grady Martin's greatest moments....listen and weep, oh ye of little faith!Blues Music CDs
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