Buzz Martin

Artist: Buzz Martin

LP: Where There Walks a Logger, There Walks a Man

Song: "There Walks a Man"

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Song: "Fire Danger"

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This 1968 album from "The Singing Logger" of the Pacific Northwest is another one of the things I found in Mount Vernon on my way up to Bellingham last weekend. Born in a tent near Coon Holler, Oregon in 1928, Buzz was temporarily stuck blind as a child. He later regained his sight again and went on to become the "poet laureate of the timber industry" with his songs about the joys, the wonders, and the heartaches of the hard-living American logger. You can read more about the life and career of Buzz Martin here, buy "Where There Walks a Logger..." together with "A Logger's Reward" on CD here, and find the LP liner notes by Dick Bond of radio KGAY (!) below.

[ Buzz Martin: September 15, 1928 — August 1, 1983 ]