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DNickell - Posted - 06/10/2009: 09:03:22
Anybody here ever hear Jack Martin? After Flatt & Scruggs went their seperate ways Jack Martin was Lester Flatt's dobro player. I know of only one CD released in his name: Hound Dog Blues. He is on several with Lester Flatt, Paul Warren and others.
I was just wondering if he was known in the larger dobro world, or just locally. He lives near me and teaches lessons. I talked to him on the phone and when my new dobro arrives I'm going to take a few lessons from him to get me started right on lap style playing.
If you haven't heard "Hound Dog Blues" you should give it a listen. It may not be widely available as it was produced locally. The CD cover has the contact info, including his phone number, so I guess he wasn''t expecting it to sell too widely.
jr18 - Posted - 06/10/2009: 10:05:13
Yea I know Jack, a good player and a great guy, if you see him please tell him Jimmy Ross says hello.
Jimmy
fbounds - Posted - 06/10/2009: 16:12:59
I played mandolin in a band in Kentucky with him for a summer (20+ years ago). Played several jobs at Land between the Lakes. It's been a long time since I have seen him. He is a good Dobro player.
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Edited by - fbounds on 06/10/2009 16:14:28
resofan - Posted - 06/11/2009: 19:03:53
I saw him with Lester and enjoyed his playing. It was after Joah and before Charlie Nixon, I believe
resofan - Posted - 06/11/2009: 19:04:41
after Josh, that should have been.
DNickell - Posted - 06/12/2009: 06:15:45
I figured he had to be pretty good to have played with that crew of folks, but he seems to have just settled in here and doesn't have much visibility.
Fbounds, I know the place in Land Between the Lakes where you played--the Homeplace. I was the sixth generation on a farm settled by a Revolutionary War veteran, until we were run off so they could make LBL. I stil get over there as much as I possibly can, to care for the cemeteries and such.
fbounds - Posted - 06/16/2009: 07:54:59
Homeplace sounds right. Was a long time ago though and my memory is getting foggy. I had been playing mandolin in a Bluegrass band that fell apart finally and the guitar player (Eddie Coffee) asked me if I wanted to play some gigs at LBL for the summer. It was fun. I remember that Jack was a really good Dobro player. He lived in or around Paducah and I lived in Madisonville at the time.
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Edited by - fbounds on 06/16/2009 07:55:20
DNickell - Posted - 06/16/2009: 12:13:30
It is a small world. Eddie Coffee now plays upright bass in a band called Bawn in the Mash. His son Josh is the fiddle player in the band, and my daughter's fiddle teacher. They play a wild mix of traditional to jazzy off the wall tunes.
Jack Martin still lives in Paducah and has a small store front selling mostly entry level guitars, banjos, dobros and mandolins. He has a classified ad in the Paducah paper, and has for years, for lessons. He evidently played with some big time folks along the way and just settled in here, evidently spending a lot of time with his beagles.
If my backordered Paul Beard Signature EVER arrives I'm going to get Jack Martin to give me a few lessons to get me started right on lap style. When I talked to him on the phone he said he had some good stories to tell about Lester Flatt and that band, but wasn't around Earl Scruggs that much. It sounded like Lester was a real rounder. I figure back in the day Lester Flatt could have gotten about any dobro player he wanted, they were still playing the Grand Ol Opry on a regular basis. That Jack Martin got the job has to say something about his abilitly.
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