Marty Stuart & Vince Gill - El Paso(Country Music Hall of Fame Medallion Ceremony 2015)

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Nashville, TN. October 25, 2015. Country Music Hall of Fame Medallion Ceremony. Marty Stuart and the Fabulous Superlatives with Country Music Hall of Famer Vince Gill, Duane Eddy, Mandy Barnett, Pete Wade and Buddy Miller performed a version of Marty Robbins´ hit ‘El Paso’ during Grady Martin’s segment of the ceremony.
Born on a Marshall County farm in Middle Tennessee on January 17, 1929, Martin became a dedicated fan of the Grand Ole Opry, listening at first on a homemade radio that his cousin built from a cigar box and coils scavenged from an old car. Martin found himself transfixed by the King of Country Music, Roy Acuff, and harmonica titan DeFord Bailey.
Martin left the family farm at age 15, heading to Nashville to play fiddle with local favorites Big Jeff Bess & the Radio Playboys, and in 1949 he joined Little Jimmy Dickens’ legendary band, the Country Boys. That same year, Martin played on his first huge hit, recording a distinctive solo on Red Foley’s thirteen-week #1 single, “Chattanoogie Shoe Shine Boy.”
Before long, Martin became a fixture at the Quonset hut studio and at RCA’s Studio B—the busiest Nashville recording centers at the time. He appeared on numerous country recordings and spent the 1950s, ’60s and ’70s creating indelible musical parts on a good percentage of the best-loved country songs from those eras.
Williams cited the memorable acoustic guitar part Martin created for Marty Robbins’ 1959 hit “El Paso,” as well as the fuzzed-out electric solo on Robbins’ 1961 classic, “Don’t Worry.” Of the latter, Williams added, “A soundboard amplifier blew during a studio session, and Grady’s water-clean guitar suddenly sounded distorted and raucous. What to do? Some people in the room thought it sounded wrong. Grady knew it sounded just right. He played what became one of country music’s most famous solos, through malfunctioning equipment.”
Martin’s fuzzy guitar sound inspired Keith Richards to play a similar part on the Rolling Stones’ seminal rock hit “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction,” and soon an electronics company created a device that allowed guitarists to replicate the sound on functioning equipment.
Martin is among the few musicians to record with both Hank Williams and Elvis Presley. He worked with Joan Baez, J.J. Cale, Patsy Cline, Lefty Frizzell, Merle Haggard, Brenda Lee, Loretta Lynn, Willie Nelson, Conway Twitty and so many others. His guitar is heard on the country standards “The Battle of New Orleans,” “For the Good Times,” Satin Sheets,” “Help Me Make It Through the Night” and countless others.

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