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Benny Martin

Benny E. Martin · Benny Edward Martin
Born 8 May 1928Died 13 Mar 2001United States3 albums

American musician

Biography

Benny Edward Martin (May 8, 1928 – March 13, 2001), was an American bluegrass fiddler who invented the eight-string fiddle. Throughout his musical career he performed with artists such as the Bluegrass Boys, Don Reno, the Smoky Mountain Boys and Flatt and Scruggs, and later performed and recorded with the Stanley Brothers, Hylo Brown, Jimmy Martin, Johnnie and Jack, and the Stonemans, among others. He was inducted into the International Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame in 2005.

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People

Member of

Bill Monroe and the Bluegrass BoysThe Foggy Mountain Boysfiddle

Songs written

  1. Hello City Limitswriter1965 · 23 releases
  2. Ice Cold Heartcomposer, lyricist1955 · 14 releases
  3. If I Can Stay Awaycomposer, lyricist1960 · 7 releases
  4. Your Love Is Dyingcomposer, lyricist1963 · 7 releases
  5. Where Is Your Heart Tonightwriter1962 · 6 releases
  6. I Want to Knowcomposer1988 · 1 releases

Songs recorded

  1. Wabash Cannonball16 versions
  2. Foggy Mountain Breakdown5 versions
  3. Orange Blossom Special5 versions
  4. Dixie4 versions
  5. Blue Moon of Kentucky3 versions
  6. Freight Train Blues3 versions
  7. Hobo3 versions
  8. Hoebe Snow3 versions
  9. Home Sweet Home3 versions
  10. Payday In the Army3 versions
  11. Salty Dog Blues3 versions
  12. Wildflower Guitar3 versions
  13. Back Up and Push2 versions
  14. Big Footed Dan2 versions
  15. Big Tiger Special2 versions
  16. Devil's Dream2 versions
  17. Dim Lights, Thick Smoke2 versions
  18. Double Eagle Swing2 versions
  19. Down Yonder2 versions
  20. Down in Dixie2 versions
  21. Dueling Fiddles2 versions
  22. East Nashville Robbery2 versions
  23. Golden Slippers2 versions
  24. He Will Set Your Fields on Fire2 versions
  25. I Can Hear the Hallelujas in the Air2 versions
  26. Ice Cold Love2 versions
  27. Ragtime Annie2 versions
  28. Secret Love2 versions
  29. Sweet Bunch of Daisies2 versions
  30. Swing Low, Sweet Chariot2 versions
  31. The Wexford Girl2 versions
  32. Back Up & Push
  33. Back Up and Push (instrumental)
  34. Beautiful Dreamer
  35. Big Tiger Roars Again
  36. Bile'em Cabbage Down
  37. Blue Moon of Kentuky
  38. Blue Writin' on White Paper
  39. Blue Writing On White Paper
  40. Bonaparte's Retreat
  41. Border Baby
  42. Brown’s Ferry Blues
  43. Buffalo Gals
  44. Bury Me Beneath the Willow
  45. Chapel in the Valley
  46. Checkin' Out On You
  47. Coming Attractions
  48. Cotton-Eyed Joe
  49. Crag Rock Pass
  50. Detroit City
  51. Dim Lights, Thick Smoke (and Loud, Loud Music)
  52. Don't Make Me Go to Bed and I'll Be Good
  53. Down in Union County
  54. Droopy Little Christmas Tree
  55. Father Alone
  56. Fiddle Faddle
  57. Fiddle in the Bluegrass
  58. Fiddler’s Dream
  59. Fire on the Mountain
  60. First Fall of Snow
  61. Foggy Mountain Reakdown
  62. Georgiana Moon
  63. Glory to His Name
  64. Go Fall Asleep Now
  65. Good Enough Reason
  66. Greenback Dollar / Careless Love
  67. Guitar Rag
  68. He Will Set Your Fields Afire
  69. Hillman
  70. Hold Fast to the Right
  71. Hold to God's Unchanging Hand
  72. I Can Hear the Hallelujahs in the Air
  73. I Can Read Between The Line
  74. I Can Read Between the Lines in Your Letters
  75. I Heard My Mother Call My Name in Prayer
  76. I'll Fly Away
  77. I'll Go Stepping Too
  78. I'll Live On
  79. If I Can Stay Away Long Enough
  80. If I Could Stay Away Long Enough
  81. If I Had My Life To Live Over
  82. I’ll Fly Away
  83. John Henry
  84. Keep on the Sunnyside
  85. Lee Highway Blues
  86. Lester, Bill And Earl
  87. Liberty
  88. Life in the Findland Woods
  89. Life in the Finland Woods
  90. Little Footprints in the Snow
  91. Little White Church
  92. Lonesome Valley
  93. Look What You Have Done
  94. Love in Vain
  95. Lover Of The Town
  96. Lovesick Blues
  97. Me & My Fiddle
  98. Money Up Front
  99. Mule Skinner Blues
  100. Ome Sweet Home
  101. One Drink Is Too Many
  102. Orange Blossom
  103. Over the Rainbow
  104. Pig In The Pen
  105. Put Your Little Foot
  106. Radar Blues
  107. Ragtime Annie (instrumental)
  108. Rosebuds and You
  109. Santa Claus Is From the South
  110. Secret Of Your Heart
  111. Six White Horses
  112. Slumberin' on the Cumberland
  113. Smell Good On Sunday
  114. Soldier's Joy
  115. Soldier’s Joy
  116. Someone Took My Place With You
  117. Southern Moon
  118. Sparta Waltz
  119. Sunny Side Of The Mountain
  120. Swing Low Sweet Chariot

Albums

Bluegrass Gospel Favorites
Bluegrass Gospel FavoritesDon Reno & Benny Martin · 1967
Tennessee Jubilee
Tennessee JubileeBenny Martin · 1975
Slumberin' on the Cumberland
Slumberin' on the CumberlandJohn Hartford, Pat Burton & Benny Martin · 1979

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