Article successfully added.

Jimmy Martin Songs Of A Free Born Man

Songs Of A Free Born Man
Please inform me as soon as the product is available again.
Please enter the digits and letters in the following text field.

$11.26 * $21.39 * (47.36% Saved)

* incl. VAT / plus shipping costsDepending on the country of delivery, the VAT at checkout may vary.

Item is temporarily out of stock.
Approx. delivery time: up to 3 weeks. (as far as available at the supplier - can be faster, but sometimes unfortunately not)

  • CDCMH8440
  • 0.1
P Secure bonuspoints now
(2003/CMH) 25 tracks 1959-1992more

Jimmy Martin: Songs Of A Free Born Man

(2003/CMH) 25 tracks 1959-1992

Article properties:Jimmy Martin: Songs Of A Free Born Man

  • Interpret: Jimmy Martin

  • Album titlle: Songs Of A Free Born Man

  • Genre Country

  • Label CMH

  • Artikelart CD

  • EAN: 0027297844025

  • weight in Kg 0.1
Martin, Jimmy - Songs Of A Free Born Man CD 1
01Intro: Made In The Shade (If A Tree Don't...)Jimmy Martin
02If Teardrops Were PenniesJimmy Martin
03Grant Turner IntroductionJimmy Martin
0420/20 VisionJimmy Martin
05Lost To A StrangerJimmy Martin
06Pete, The Best Coon Dog In The State Of...Jimmy Martin
07Ocean Of DiamondsJimmy Martin
08SophronieJimmy Martin
09Mansion On The HillJimmy Martin
10Rose Of Old KentuckyJimmy Martin
11Sunny Side Of The MountainJimmy Martin
12Big Jam IntroJimmy Martin
13Molly And TenbrooksJimmy Martin
14Jimmy's MuleJimmy Martin
15Put My Little Shoes AwayJimmy Martin
16RubyJimmy Martin
17Widow MakerJimmy Martin
18Don't Let Me Cross OverJimmy Martin
19If We Never Meet Again (This Side Of Heaven)Jimmy Martin
20Darlin' CoryJimmy Martin
21It Takes One To Know OneJimmy Martin
22Little MaggieJimmy Martin
23Honey, You Don't Know My MindJimmy Martin
24Will The Circle Be UnbrokenJimmy Martin
25Free Born Man (Outro)Jimmy Martin
Jimmy Martin & The Osborne Brothers   Two major bluegrass careers got underway... more
"Jimmy Martin"

Jimmy Martin

& The Osborne Brothers

 

Two major bluegrass careers got underway here. Jimmy Martin (born in Sneedville, Tennessee on August 10, 1927) first came to prominence as a member of Bill Monroe's Blue Grass Boys (he's on I'm Blue, I'm Lonesomeon our 1950 volume) but fell out with Monroe in mid-1951. He met Bobby Osborne in Bluefield, West Virginia, and they recorded one session for King in Cincinnati later in '51. After Bobby went into the service, Martin began working with Bobby's 14 year-old brother, Sonny, in Middletown, Ohio.

Monroe called, and they came to Nashville to play on his July '52 sessions. Monroe asked Martin to stay, and Martin persuaded Monroe to hire Sonny on banjo until Rudy Lyle got out of the Army. "While I was with Bill that second time,"Martin told Chris Skinker, "I got to know Troy Martin who was [with Gene Autry's publishing company, Golden West Melodies]. Sometimes, I'd go down there and sing some of Troy's songs. Steve Sholes from RCA came by and heard me sing and asked me if I'd like to record for him."Monroe wasn't in favor of his sidemen making solo recordings, so Martin handed in his notice and headed back to Middletown. Meanwhile, Bobby Osborne had got out of the Army and joined his brother in Knoxville, Tennessee. Martin called them and they met in Detroit to work on WJR. Up in the chill Detroit autumn, they practised their three-part harmonies until they shimmered.

It was time to get back with Steve Sholes and tell him that Jimmy Martin and the Osborne Brothers were ready. "We got to Nashville,"Martin told Skinker. "I called Red Taylor who was one of the best fiddle players in bluegrass there ever was [Taylor had played on Bill Monroe's 'Uncle Pen']. And I called Cedric Rainwater who everybody knows is the best bass player that ever hit Nashville [Rainwater had worked with Hank Williams and Monroe]. And I called Troy Martin and got some songs. When we went into record we were really rehearsed. We each knew how loud to play to back the other one up. We knew when to hit it hard and hit it light. The man who cut the records didn't have much to do. We'd already mixed it for him."Troy Martin had worked for Peer Music until Peer had gotten wise to some of his practises. Gene Autry signed him up as the Nashville rep for his Golden West Melodies, and Martin acquired a song, Just Walking In The Rain,that had been a R&B hit for the Prisonaires on Sun Records.

After Autry recorded it, Troy Martin and Columbia's Don Law got it to Johnnie Ray who made it into a worldwide smash. Martin also acquired 20/20 Visionfor Autry, who'd recorded it in 1954. The song was written by a Nashville dee-jay, Joe Allison, better known for writing Live Fast, Love Hard, Die Youngand Jim Reeves' He'll Have To Go.Allison's cowriter was a minor league Opry star Milton Estes. "The Osborne Brothers said we couldn't do that song,"Martin told Jim Moss. "Said, 'It's not bluegrass. It's not our style.' I said, "It's gonna be our style when we get through with it.'"And it was. Although not a charted hit, 20/20 Visionsold well, but not well enough to keep Martin and the Osbornes together or on RCA. Within a year, the Orbornes had left Detroit for Wheeling, West Virginia (see our 1956 volume for the continuation of their story). Martin assembled a new group, and moved on the Louisiana Hayride in Shreveport. Troy Martin shunted Jimmy Martin onto Decca Records, where he remained for the next eighteen years. In 1964, he re-recorded 20/20 Vision. In the 1993 bluegrass documentary 'High Lonesome,' Martin explained how he approached 20/20 Vision,singing it first in Autry's style and then as bluegrass. It was, as he would be the first to say, an example of the transformative power of genius.

Jimmy Martin & The Sunny Mountain Boys (5-CD)
Read more at: https://www.bear-family.de/martin-jimmy-the-sunny-mountain-boys-5-cd.html
Copyright © Bear Family Records

 

Read, write and discuss reviews...more
Customer evaluation for "Songs Of A Free Born Man"
Write an evaluation
Evaluations will be activated after verification.

The fields marked with * are required.

Weitere Artikel von Jimmy Martin
Jimmy Martin & The Sunny Mountain Boys (5-CD Deluxe Box Set)
Jimmy Martin: Jimmy Martin & The Sunny Mountain Boys (5-CD... Art-Nr.: BCD15705

Ready to ship today, delivery time** appr. 1-3 workdays

$107.45 * $90.48 *
God'n'Country & Country Music Time (CD)
Jimmy Martin: God'n'Country & Country Music Time (CD) Art-Nr.: CDJAS3694

Item has to be restocked

$16.92 *
Will The Circle Be Unbroken
MARTIN, Jimmy: Will The Circle Be Unbroken Art-Nr.: CDGT0619

Item has to be restocked

$10.07 *
To Mother At Christmas
Jimmy Martin: To Mother At Christmas Art-Nr.: CDGT0823

Item has to be restocked

$16.92 * $9.00 *
Blue Grass 1950-1958 (4-CD Deluxe Box Set)
Bill Monroe: Blue Grass 1950-1958 (4-CD Deluxe Box Set) Art-Nr.: BCD15423

Ready to ship today, delivery time** appr. 1-3 workdays

$56.53 $67.85
After The Riot At Newport
NASHVILLE ALL-STARS: After The Riot At Newport Art-Nr.: BCD15447

This article is deleted and can no longer be ordered!

$15.79 $18.05
1948-1959 (4-CD Deluxe Box Set)
Flatt & Scruggs: 1948-1959 (4-CD Deluxe Box Set) Art-Nr.: BCD15472

Ready to ship today, delivery time** appr. 1-3 workdays

$67.85
Blue Grass 1959-1969 (4-CD Deluxe Box Set)
Bill Monroe: Blue Grass 1959-1969 (4-CD Deluxe Box Set) Art-Nr.: BCD15529

This article is deleted and can no longer be ordered!

$226.28
Hank Garland & His Sugar Footers (CD)
Hank Garland: Hank Garland & His Sugar Footers (CD) Art-Nr.: BCD15551

Ready to ship today, delivery time** appr. 1-3 workdays

$15.79 $18.05
God'n'Country & Country Music Time (CD)
Jimmy Martin: God'n'Country & Country Music Time (CD) Art-Nr.: CDJAS3694

Item has to be restocked

$16.92
Jimmy Martin & The Sunny Mountain Boys (5-CD Deluxe Box Set)
Jimmy Martin: Jimmy Martin & The Sunny Mountain Boys (5-CD... Art-Nr.: BCD15705

Ready to ship today, delivery time** appr. 1-3 workdays

$90.48 $107.45