Bob Martin

Born inside a city whose hippest site visitors usually head right for Jack port Kerouac’s grave, Bob Martin spent his youngsters employed in the mills across the Merrimack River in addition to traveling backwards and forwards across America. Within the ’60s he was from the Boston folk music picture, performing his unique tunes with strummed acoustic guitar accompaniment in locations like the Nameless Coffeehouse and Golf club 47. Early within the ’70s an excellent opportunity arrived with a vacation to Nashville and the help of the town’s studio room wizards including famous guitarist Chet Atkins with an RCA record entitled Midwest Plantation Disaster. The devastation, however, appears to have occurred to Martin’s profession along with the family members farm. Despite many more many years of nearly constant touring, frequently helping big-name folk serves, by the center of the 10 years Martin acquired become exasperated using the music business. He transferred to a plantation in Western world Virginia where he started raising a family group and began up a middle for learning traditional Appalachian crafts, the Hill Heritage College. His second attempt at an record didn’t arrive until 1982. Last Possibility Rider premiered on the indie June Appal rather than big label. Ultimately he returned towards the previous home surface of Lowell, Massachusetts and continuing developing a documenting profession with (ideally) nationwide reverberations, albeit one where gaps of ten years appear to be area of the procedure. During these intervals Martin continues to be employed being a college teacher, carpenter, university instructor, home painter and vehicle driver. His record The River Transforms the Wheel premiered in 1992, this time around by himself Riversong imprint. In 1999 he opened up some shows for nation and western star Merle Haggard.