Benny Martin
Benny Edward Martin (May 8, 1928 – March 13, 2001), was an American bluegrass fiddler who invented the eight-string fiddle. Throughout his musical career he performed with artists such as the Bluegrass Boys, Don Reno, the Smoky Mountain Boys and Flatt and Scruggs, and later performed and recorded with the Stanley Brothers, Hylo Brown, Jimmy Martin, Johnnie and Jack, and the Stonemans, among others. He was inducted into the International Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame in 2005.
Genre: traditional-bluegrass
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Top Tracks
- Salty Dog Blues
- Dueling Fiddles
- Wabash Cannonball
- Dim Lights, Thick Smoke (And Loud, Loud Music)
- Salty Dog Blues
- Foggy Mountain Breakdown
- Wabash Cannonball
- Blue Moon of Kentucky
- Little Footprints in the Snow
- Foggy Mountain Breakdown
- I'll Go Stepping Too
- Home Sweet Home
- East Nashville Robbery
- Salty Dog Blues
- Wabash Cannonball
- Down Yonder - Instrumental
- Freight Train Blues
- Big Tiger Roars Again
- Wabash Cannonball
- Over the Mountain
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