Fiddlin' Joe Martin
Fiddlin' Joe Martin (January 8, 1900,
American blues musician, who played mandolin on Son House's recording sessions inspired by Alan Lomax in 1941.[2]
Martin was a versatile musician who could play
drums.[4] Paul Oliver wrote that he "worked the Delta joints for over fifty years" after leaving Edwards in 1918 when he was fourteen.[5] Martin worked with numerous blues artists including House, Willie Brown, Charley Patton and Howlin' Wolf.[2] He is mostly associated with Woodrow Adams, on all of whose recordings he appeared.[2] Martin and Adams played live together in the Mississippi area until Martin’s death.[1]
Notes
- ^ AllMusic. Retrieved 2012-04-23.
- ^ ISBN 0-85112-673-1.
- ISBN 978-0-14-006223-6.
- ISBN 978-0-14-006223-6.
- ^ Oliver, pp. 118–119.
References
- ISBN 3-85445-092-3.
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