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Jimmy Martin - Don't Cry to Me

Jimmy Martin

Don't Cry to Me


Jimmy Martin is bluegrass' proverbial loose cannon, an eccentric and unpredictable rebel working in a genre famous for preserving its conventions, and while he has undoubtedly made as many enemies as friends in the bluegrass community, no one can deny that he has been instrumental in shaping the very heart of the music. From his days as guitarist and lead singer for Bill Monroe in the mid-'50s (when Martin's high tenor pushed Monroe's own tenor into the rarefied mountain atmosphere that came to be known as "that high lonesome sound") through the ever-changing excellence of his Sunny Mountain Boys (J.D. Crowe, Paul Williams, Bill Emerson, and Doyle Lawson are among the bluegrass stars who cut...

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