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SUMMARY:Bob Martin
DESCRIPTION:Admission:: $18 - Seniors/Military $15 - TFFM Members $14\
 n\n\"Where did this guy come from? Martin has turned in one of the str
 ongest sets I've heard in a long time. There is nothing derivative abo
 ut Martin's music. The people and places in these songs ring true and 
 strike at the gut. There is no dead wood, either every song demands to
  be heard.\"\n- - John Calkins - Acoustic Musician Magazine\n\nBob Mar
 tin was born in Lowell, Massachusetts in 1942. While attending Suffolk
  University in Boston during the 1960s, he was influenced by the Cambr
 idge folk scene and played at the Nameless Coffeehouse, Club 47 (now C
 lub Passim), and other folk clubs. Emerging from the same New England 
 city as Jack Kerouac, Martin was heavily influenced by the beat poet's
  writing and career. It was in 1972, fifteen years after Kerouac's On 
 The Road was published, that Bob Martin made his first album Midwest F
 arm Disaster for RCA Records in Nashville. He worked closely with Chet
  Atkins, an executive at RCA at the time and many exceptional studio m
 usicians including drummer Kenneth Buttrey, a key player on Bob Dylan'
 s Blonde On Blonde album. Due to personnel changes at the label and th
 e onset of disco, Martin's career was not given priority.\n\nIn 1974, 
 he \"dropped out\" of pop culture and moved to a farm in West Virginia
  with his family. He continued to write songs, poetry, novels and purs
 ued his muse through various artistic endeavors. In 1982, he recorded 
 his second album, Last Chance Rider for June Appal Records of Whitesbu
 rg,KY. The record was recognized as one of the top three folk albums i
 n the country by the National Assoc of Independent Record Distributors
 . Martin however chose to play music on his own terms and didn't pursu
 e the music business as a way of life.\n\nIt was another ten years, un
 til the release of his third album in 1997. This album, The River Turn
 s the Wheel, hosts backing vocals by Bill Morrissey and Cormac McCarth
 y and was released on Martin's own label, Riversong Records. This may 
 be considered Bob Martin's most commercially successful album to date.
  Despite his passivity toward the music biz, \"The River Turns The Whe
 el\" was noticed by music critics around the country. The CD reached n
 umber sixteen on the Gavin Americana Chart and was chosen one of the t
 op ten albums in 1997 by Brad Kava of The San Jose Mercury News. Dave 
 Perry of The Lowell Sun chose it as the best folk album of 1997 and To
 m Flannery of The Electric City News also picked it as the best CD of 
 that year. He toured nationally and opened for Merle Haggard in 1999.\
 n\nMartin didn't wait quite so long to release his fourth album. \"Nex
 t To Nothin\" was put out on Riversong Records in 2000, and received m
 ore rave critical reviews and extensive airplay on Americana radio pro
 grams around the country.\n\nIn 2006 Martin completed his first non-fi
 ction book and he continues to perform nationally and internationally.
 \n\nFor more information visit https://vbnightlife.com/events/bob-mart
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LOCATION:Meyrea E. Obenrdorf Central Library
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