Bob Martin -Midwest Farm Disaster (1972) Reissue 2010)
Bob Martin -Midwest Farm Disaster (1972) Reissue 2010)
MP3 192 kbps | 56 MB | 41:23 | Front cover
Folk
Made at RCA Studios in Nashville with a rhythm section comprised of the regal likes of David Briggs, Norbert Putnam and Kenny Buttrey (misspelled "Butrey"). The cantering first bars of the opening track - stripped-down Nashville Sound a la Saginaw, Michigan or John Wesley Harding announces the intimate aesthetic of those unassailable musicians. Their accompaniment contrasts sharply with the keening rasp of the singer, a voice that reminds me of a cross between John Prine and Willis Alan Ramsey, but especially Ramsey circa his sublime self-titled LP which, as it happens, also was released in 1972.