Music CD - Grady Martin: Roughneck Blues 1949-1956

	Music CD: Roughneck Blues 1949-1956 Artist: Grady Martin List Price: $18.98 Our Price: $10.72 Your Save: $ 8.26 ( 44% ) Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Manufacturer: Rev-Ola Bandstand
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Tracks: 1. San Antonio Rose - Grady Martin & The Slew Foot Five 2. My Window Faces the South - Red Foley, Grady Martin & His Winging Strings 3. A-Sleeping at the Foot of the Bed - Little Jimmy Dickens 4. Chattanoogie Shoe Shine Boy - Red Foley 5. Diesel Smoke, Dangerous Curves - Burl Ives, , Grady Martin & The Slew Foot Five 6. (Now and Then There's) A Fool Such as I - Dottie Dillard, , Grady Martin & The Slew Foot Five, Jack Shook 7. Hillbilly Fever - Little Jimmy Dickens 8. Birmingham Bounce - Red Foley 9. Don't You Worry - Cecil Gant 10. It Ain't Gonna Be Like That - Cecil Gant 11. I'm a Big Boy Now - Justin Tubb 12. My Girl and His Girl - Danny Dill 13. Roughneck Blues - Al Terry 14. Bird Dog - Don Woody 15. Juke Joint Johnny - Red Sovine 16. I'm a One-Woman Man - Johnny Horton 17. Baby's Gone - Vernon Claud 18. Shake Baby Shake - Wayne Raney 19. All I Can Do Is Cry - Wayne Walker 20. It Would Be a Doggone Lie - Autry Inman 21. I'm Hungry for Your Lovin' - Danny Dill 22. Three Alley Cats - Roy Hall 23. Rock Billy Boogie - Johnny Burnette 24. Crazy, Crazy Lovin' - Johnny Carroll & His Hot Rocks 25. You're Barking Up the Wrong Tree - Don Woody 26. Bigelo 6-200 - Brenda Lee, 27. Everybody's Rockin' But Me - Bobby Lord 28. I'm Coming Home - Johnny Horton 29. Rock Around with Ollie Vee - Buddy Holly 30. Modern Don Juan - Buddy Holly 31. Train Kept A-Rollin' - Johnny Burnette Trio 32. When My Dreamboat Comes Home - Grady Martin & The Slew Foot Five
Binding: Audio CD EAN: 5013929482623 Format: Import Label: Rev-Ola Bandstand Manufacturer: Rev-Ola Bandstand Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Rev-Ola Bandstand Release Date: 2007-11-27 Studio: Rev-Ola Bandstand
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Spotlight customer reviews: Customer Rating: Summary: Great scholarship, Great music! Comment: Having only limited exposure to Grady Martin & his Slew foot Five I wasn't anticipating such versatility, longevity and pure dynamic power in his playing and choice of recording projects. This collection revealed that he played on some of my absolute FAVORITE songs of this genre and period! Like "Rock-A-Billy-Boogie", "The Train Kept A'-Rollin'", "Juke Joint Johnny", "Chatanoogie Shoe Shine Boy" and "Hillbilly Fever" and more!! A Fabulous collection! Don't miss this one!!! A great grounding in early Nashville 50's styles... Customer Rating: Summary: The link between country and rock Comment: What a fun album of great country and rockabilly tunes. Grady Martin is of course the legendary and often uncredited sideman whose work as part of the Owen Bradley's A-team made him one of the top guitarists of the era. While not as slick as the Chet Atkins, Grady Martin's work clearly illuminates the intersection of Western Swing, Honky Tonk Country and Rockabilly that was brewing in the early to mid-1950s. While many draw a direct line from the Blues to Rock, a more accurate map passes through these other areas of popular rural music in the southern and western United States. Jeff Beck may owe a greater debt to Bob Wills and Johnny Horton than most people think. Throughout the disc, Martin shines with his raw, aggressive attack and biting tone. Pioneering use of slapback echo, distortion and string bending are here too, but what ties all these pieces together is Martin's terrific sense of composition. Every guitar part is just right for what the song and the vocalist needs - it is no wonder that Owen Bradley depended upon Martin to make hit records day after day. Customer Rating: Summary: Unsung guitar pioneer Comment: 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 90% of the Johnny Burnette rock and roll trio material - NOT Paul Burlison, who falsely claimed to be the featured guitarist on the classic July '56 Nashville sessions - sessions which produced brilliant rockabilly tracks such as 'the train kept a rollin' '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? Any doubters of this fact, 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 hardly worth mentioning - 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. More Reviews
Editorial Reviews: 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!