“There’s always a Lowell connection, right? Farewell, David Bowie, rock star, pop star, culture star, endlessly inventive artist. When I heard the news today, I was reminded of a story
Continue readingArticle / David Bowie & Bob Martin: The Lowell Connection (from Richard Howe)
“Just in case you’d welcome some positive economic news right now, there’s an American export that Europe can’t seem to get enough of these days. Singer-songwriter Bob Martin, who first
Continue readingArticle / Bob Martin unveils new songs at the Jefferson (from The Daily Progress)
Thank you very much for agreeing to this interview, Bob. I have been a fan of Midwest Farm Disaster for many years now. You were born in Lowell, Massachusetts in 1942. What
Continue readingInterview / Bob Martin (from It’s Psychedelic Baby magazine)
Klemen: Thank you very much for agreeing to this interview, Bob. I have been a fan of Midwest Farm Disaster for many years now and I am only 20 years
Continue readingInterview / Bob Martin: Jack Kerouac’s contemporary (from Prog Sphere)
“A highly talented singer-songwriter from Lowell, Massachusetts, Bob Martin released Midwest Farm Disaster in 1972 — a record that is generally acknowledged as his masterpiece and a genre benchmark.” Read the full
Continue readingReview / Midwest Farm Disaster (from Aquarium Drunkard)
“Drunks, ex-cons, dispossessed souls and down-and-outers: These are Bob Martin’s people, the scuffling anybodies who populate Midwest Farm Disaster, the Massachusetts native’s recently re-issued 1972 debut, a record so unjustly
Continue readingArticle / In Praise of Bob Martin (from No Depression bookazine)