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<p>New page: &#039;&#039;&#039;Asa Martin:&#039;&#039;&#039; was an important recording artist during the ‘Golden Age of Hillbilly Recording’, working both as a solo and as a member of a large number of different aggregations -...</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>&#039;&#039;&#039;Asa Martin:&#039;&#039;&#039; was an important recording artist during the ‘Golden Age of Hillbilly Recording’, working both as a solo and as a member of a large number of different aggregations - eg, his well known duets with James Roberts and with Roy ‘Shorty’ Hobbs.&amp;nbsp; He also served as an exemplary backup guitarist for the great Doc Roberts.&amp;nbsp; Asa also presided over a long-running radio show that nurtured local talents such as Stringbean and Cowboy Copas.&amp;nbsp; Asa had lived away from Kentucky in the &#039;fifties, working as a night watchman in Ohio after the radio business fizzled, but he had recently returned to his Irvine home and was now playing in a little band called The Cumberland Rangers on the local radio station<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> &#039;&#039;Part of the booklet notes, written by Mark Wilson, to the Musical Traditions Records 4-CD set Meeting&#039;s a Pleasure (MTCD341-4)&#039;&#039;</div>

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