Fiddlin' Joe Martin (January 8, 1900, Edwards, Mississippi – November 2, 1975, Walls, Mississippi)[1] was an American blues musician, who played mandolin on Son House's recording sessions inspired by Alan Lomax in 1941.[2]

Martin was a versatile musician who could play guitar, fiddle, mandolin,[3] washboard and drums.[4] Paul Oliver wrote that he "worked the Delta joints for over fifty years" after leaving Edwards in 1918 when he was fourteen.[5] Martin worked with numerous blues artists including House, Willie Brown, Charley Patton and Howlin' Wolf.[2] He is mostly associated with Woodrow Adams, on all of whose recordings he appeared.[2] Martin and Adams played live together in the Mississippi area until Martin’s death.[1]

Notes

  1. 1 2 Fiddlin' Joe Martin at AllMusic. Retrieved 2012-04-23.
  2. 1 2 3 Colin Larkin, ed. (1995). The Guinness Who's Who of Blues (Second ed.). Guinness Publishing. p. 255. ISBN 0-85112-673-1.
  3. ↑ Robert Palmer (1982). Deep Blues. Penguin Books. p. 61. ISBN 978-0-14-006223-6.
  4. ↑ Robert Palmer (1982). Deep Blues. Penguin Books. p. 190. ISBN 978-0-14-006223-6.
  5. ↑ Oliver, pp. 118–119.

References

  • Oliver, Paul (1969). The Story of the Blues. London: Barrie & Jenkins. ISBN 3-85445-092-3.


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