“Bob Martin is a highly talented singer songwriter from Lowell, Massachusetts who released Midwest Farm Disaster in 1972. Martin is still making records today but this one is generally acknowledged as his

Continue readingReview / Midwest Farm Disaster (from The Rising Storm)

“In 1971, Bob Martin saw an ad in the Phoenix. Can you write a hit song, it asked. Easy enough, the Lowell native thought. While studying at Suffolk University, he’d

Continue readingArticle / Closing the circle (from The Lowell Sun)

You were recently pictured on the cover of the Suffolk University alumni magazine. What are your thoughts on that? I was thrilled, absolutely thrilled. I was a little bit surprised

Continue readingInterview / A troubadour at heart (from The Lowell Sun)

Nationally known folk singer, songwriter and recording artist Bob Martin is picky about his gigs. He won’t do bars or go where he’s a stranger. He plays fewer than a

Continue readingArticle / Music guides Martin’s life (from The Bolton Common)

The “Great Folk Scare” of the 1960s extended beyond the Greenwich Village scene that spawned the careers of Bob Dylan, Dave Van Ronk, Eric Anderson, and others. And if Bob

Continue readingArticle / Upstairs at Paradise (from San Francisco Bay Guardian)

Ernest Hemingway lamented that the world was lacking in undiscovered poets and unambitious writers. Add to that musicians who just aren’t in it for the money. Well, Bob Martin, from

Continue readingArticle / E * Files (from San Jose Mercury News)