Grady Martin - Roughneck Blues 1949 - 1956
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Artist: Grady MartinEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Import, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2007-11-27
Music Label: Rev-Ola Bandstand
Soundtracks:
- San Antonio Rose
- My Window Faces the South
- A-Sleeping at the Foot of the Bed
- Chattanoogie Shoe Shine Boy
- Diesel Smoke, Dangerous Curves
- (Now and Then There's) A Fool Such as I
- Hillbilly Fever
- Birmingham Bounce
- Don't You Worry
- It Ain't Gonna Be Like That
- I'm a Big Boy Now
- My Girl and His Girl
- Roughneck Blues
- Bird Dog
- Juke Joint Johnny
- I'm a One-Woman Man
- Baby's Gone
- Shake Baby Shake
- All I Can Do Is Cry
- It Would Be a Doggone Lie
- I'm Hungry for Your Lovin'
- Three Alley Cats
- Rock Billy Boogie
- Crazy, Crazy Lovin'
- You're Barking Up the Wrong Tree
- Bigelo 6-200
- Everybody's Rockin' But Me
- I'm Coming Home
- Rock Around with Ollie Vee
- Modern Don Juan
- The Train Kept A-Rollin'
- When My Dreamboat Comes Home
Music reviews of Roughneck Blues 1949 - 1956
Music Review: Unsung guitar pioneer - with one exception!
Rating: 4 Stars
Finally a compilation CD recognizing the talents of Nashville based session guitarist Grady Martin (alongside double bassist Bob Moore and drummer Buddy Harman - aka, the Nashville 'A' team). Grady Martin (alongside the Nashville 'A' team) was the guitarist responsible for the raw + influential sounds on 70% of the Johnny Burnette rock and roll trio material - the late great Paul Burlison who was a founder member of the Rock and Roll trio was unfortunately replaced on most of the Burnette Nashville sessions- which produced brilliant rockabilly tracks such as 'lonesome train' 'Rock Therapy' 'Please Don't Leave Me' and 'Drinkin' Wine Spodee-o-dee'. This is important to note due to the fact that these seminal recordings by Johnny Burnette were responsible for influencing a whole legion of guitarists who went on to change modern music as we know it - Jimmy Page, Jeff Beck, Albert Lee, George Harrison, Ritchie Blackmore.......need I continue?
HOWEVER. 'Train kept a rollin' is definitely Paul Burlison taking the lead alongside Grady's backing. The ferocious bite of his Fender Esquire through a tweed Fender Pro positively rocks - Burlison was also on 'Honey Hush' with those distinctive trademake fuzzy double octave phrases. I just question the inclusion of this track - 'rock therapy' would have been more inkeeping.
Any doubters of Grady's association with Burnette should check out this CD - particularly on the tracks by Don Woody ('bird dog' - which starts exactly like Burnette's 'your baby blue eyes')) and Grady's own version of 'when my dreamboat comes home'; they are identical to the Burnette Nashville July '56 material. Thankfully, just to drive this point home, the Burnette rock and roll trio's versions of 'The train kept a rollin' and 'Rockabilly Boogie' are included on the CD to compare against stylistically identical tracks by a whole host of lesser known rockabilly artists. Interestingly, 2 Buddy Holly tracks are included; 'Rock around with Ollie Vee' 'Modern Don Juan'. 'Ollie Vee' featuring Grady makes a good comparison to the more well known version featuring the guitar work of Sonny Curtis.
Whereas fellow Nashville guitarist Hank Garland perhaps had a better command of harmony and be-bop Jazz, Grady showed his true colours with sheer drive and momentum - he completely understood what was needed in a rock tune and delivered every time.
My only criticisms of this CD are worth mentioning - firstly, the choice of Burnette tracks - Paul Burlison did actually took the lead on 'Train kept a rollin' there's two guitars audibly playing but crucially, no other Grady Martin tracks sound like this and it's important to note for the legacy of Burlison in rock music.
it includes a rather annoying track featuring a saxophone with a positively comic vibrato - Dottie Dillard's 'fool such as I' - though once the sax stops, it's ok. With a title like 'roughneck blues' this album could have included a few more gritty hard edged tracks - featuring examples of Grady really stretching out, but then again it is dated between '49 and '56 and therefore covers the whole 'pre rock' period well. Shame Johnny Burnette's 'Lonesome Train (on a lonesome track)' wasn't included tho.......
32 tracks in all - Johnny Horton, Brenda Lee, Don Woody, Johnny Burnette, Wayne Walker, Buddy Holly, Burl Ives, Johnny Carroll......you can't go wrong. Well,... Apart from one hugely important rockabilly track
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Description of Roughneck Blues 1949 - 1956
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 CDs
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