Benny Martin
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Biography
Benjamin Edward Martin, also known as Benny Martin, born on May 8, 1928, in Sparta, Tennessee, and was an American bluegrass fiddler known for inventing the eight-string fiddle. He learned to play the fiddle from Carl Alverson Sr., and by his early teens, he moved to Nashville to pursue a career as a country musician. In 1948, Martin joined Bill Monroe's Bluegrass Boys at radio station WLAC in Nashville. Throughout his career, he collaborated with notable artists such as Flatt and Scruggs, Jimmy Martin, Johnnie and Jack, and the Stanley Brothers. Notable albums include Country Music's Sensational Entertainer (1961) and Old Time Fiddlin' & Singin' (1964). In 1997, after a long retirement due to spasmodic dysphonia, Martin recorded The 'Big Tiger' Roars Again. He passed away on March 13, 2001. He was inducted into the International Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame, posthumously in 2005.
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- Her Baby Girl
- Dueling Fiddles featuring Johnny Gimble
- Hello City Limits
- 300,000 Unmarried Women In Georgia
- Ragtime Annie featuring Benny Martin
- Dueling Fiddles by Johnny Gimble
- Big Tiger Ramble
- The Eighth of January
- Dark Hollow
- Dimes Worth Of Dreams
- Pretty Girl
- Good Girl Bad
- I'm Gonna Cry
- Run Johnny Run
- Freight Train Blues
- Long Lonesome Road
- Droopy Little Christmas Tree
- Who's Gonna Hold You When I'm Gone
- I Should Start Running
- Sparta Waltz
- I'll Be Gone Before You Even Know I Left featuring Benny Martin
- Tennesse Rag
- Wildwood Flower featuring Benny Martin
- Another World Ago by Alison Krauss & Union Station
