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)

“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)

“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)