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song: Little Martha
artist: Jerry Douglas
album: Lookout for Hope
released: 2002-05length: 3:35
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Jerry Douglas

Gerald Calvin "Jerry" Douglas (born May 28, 1956) is an American Dobro and lap steel guitar player and record producer. He is widely regarded as "perhaps the finest Dobro player in contemporary acoustic music, and certainly the most celebrated and prolific." A fourteen-time Grammy winner, he has been called “dobro’s matchless contemporary master,” by The New York Times, and is among the most innovative recording artists in music, both as a solo artist and member of numerous bands, such as Alison Krauss and Union Station and The Earls of Leicester. He has been a co-director of the Transatlantic Sessions since 1998.

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Comments ( 77 )
Posted 7 years ago by vinylbob:
Song is a masterpiece.  Well done cover. 
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Posted 17 years ago by walkerpub:
From wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Martha The story goes that Allman had a dream where Jimi Hendrix showed him the melody of the tune in a Holiday Inn motel bathroom, using the sink faucet as a guitar fretboard. Remembering the melody during the October 1971 sessions that produced most of the third side of what would become Eat A Peach, Allman laid down the track, joined only by Dickey Betts and bassist Berry Oakley, though Oakley's part would be mixed out of the final version, leaving the number as a duet for the two guitarists. (Oakley's part would be restored on the 1989 box set Dreams.) The song's namesake was Martha Ellis, a twelve-year-old girl whose grave the Allman Brothers Band had come across during their frequent trips to Rose Hill Cemetery in their homebase of Macon, Georgia. (Both Duane Allman himself and Berry Oakley would be buried there by the end of 1972). As with Dickey Betts' 1970 instrumental "In Memory of Elizabeth Reed", the song was named for one person but actually about somebody else. Allman envisioned it as an ode to his then-girlfriend, a groupie named Dixie Meadows, who later would sue to control Allman's estate after his death, going as far to assume the name "Dixie Allman". Her claim was rejected in favor of Allman's young daughter Galadrielle, whom he had with his former common law wife, Donna Roosman.
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Posted 7 years ago by wtango:
Love it. Duane is smiling.
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Posted 5 years ago by unclehud:
thewiseking wrote:
this came to Duane in a dream, they say
 
... there's a "Little Martha" statue/tombstone in Macon's Rose Hill cemetery, where the Brothers used to hang out -- and quietly party.   Stoned is kinda like dreaming, innit?
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Posted 3 years ago by arserocket:
lovely to honour Duane Allman too
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Posted 7 years ago by kingart:
A beautiful cover of a beautiful original. 
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Posted 5 years ago by nathanieldavis89:
Was lucky enough to catch his solo show this past week - my God can he play. Blown away.
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Posted 3 years ago by dandueck07:
 vinylbob wrote:

Song is a masterpiece.  Well done cover. 



Totally agree.  With the first strum of the strings you know that it is Jerry Douglas playing, and, regardless of the song, he never disappoints me with his rendition.  Thank you RP for reacquainting me with this great artist. 
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Posted 6 years ago by mread:
glydev wrote:

I was listening to this as I was doing something else and it caught me, I thought "here's a Leo Kottke song I've never heard before"
then checked and it is Jerry Douglas, this got a 9 from me, it's beautiful..

 
Kottke actually covered this too.  Also a great version.
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Posted 6 months ago by GingerandMe:
Excellent. Raise a glass to Duane too.
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Posted 1 year ago by zggystardust:
I hadn't heard this version of Little Martha before...good stuff! Thanks RP. 
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Posted 1 year ago by joejennings:
EXCELLENT!  Thanx RP!   
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Posted 1 year ago by chinaski:
Though a Jerry Douglas fan myself I nevertheless hold the original as sacred. Thank you Duane. 
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Posted 2 years ago by Rockit999:
Did you realize that Dobro has 2 words in it...Do & Bro.
This Bro do really good. What a wonderful sound & piece of music.
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Posted 3 years ago by SkidMarx:
 vinylbob wrote:

Song is a masterpiece.  Well done cover. 



Yeah indeed a 1st Class cover and well done Jerry Douglas and thanks
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Posted 3 years ago by bikerman65:
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Posted 4 years ago by nelamvr6:
Simply beautiful! It's worth noting, for those who are not aware, this is the only song that Duane Allman wrote entirely by himself.
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Posted 4 years ago by cc_rider:
Just a couple notes and you know it's J.D.
There's an argument to be made he's not just the best, but the best ever.
c.
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Posted 6 years ago by chinaski:
"Little Martha" minutes after "Embryonic Journey". This is why I listen to RP.
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Posted 16 years ago by Mugro:
This cover is quite likeable...
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