Jimmy martin mandolin

[Russ Partain]

The F-4 Again! It takes one to know one!

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[mandomick]

Yeah!!

No thread jack intended. Just listened to the fiddle and Tele' interplay on "White Lightning" from your Mando Graffiti link. Excellent tone and back and forth.

[Peter Hackman]

Thanks for starting this thread. While Big Paul Williams (Humphreys) is certainly the man we associate most with the Jimmy Martin song, my favourite sideman is Earl Taylor. The original "Hit Parade of Love" with Earl and Sam "Porky" Hutchins on banjo is the most frantic, borderline out-of-control bluegrass picking (and singing) ever recorded. #I put it up there with Bluegrass Ramble as an example of pure right-hand mandolin playing.

Vernon Derrick was not so influential but I tried hard to duplicate his "bounce" as in "Arab Bounce" (named for his hometown in Alabama, not the middle east!)

It came out in the Spring of 1969. I bought the LP in NYC and promptly learned the tune (in some sense). When I later went to a festival where Martin was appearing I asked Derrick would he do that tune. He told me to ask Jimmy.
Then I asked about his execution of those triplets (I did triplets almost
exclusively by a split string technique in those days). He just laughed.

[swampstomper]

This gives me a chance to add the Earl Taylor made a later appearance with the Sunny Mountain boys, in 1965 when he recorded Theme Time (a great instrumental to be used exactly when its title implies), along with the above-mentioned Vernon Derrick on fiddle and Bill Emerson on banjo.

[cooper4205]

here's a youtube clip with Jimmy, Paul Williams and J.D. Crowe doing Little White Church. that F4 sounds mighty fine picking some grass!

[AlanN]

It sure does!

[don richards]

Jimmy Martin and Ira Louvin - TWO great talents - tormented by the SAME demons - whose FINEST and best(IMHO) contributions were their GOSPEL work... beautiful.. Moose. #