Buzz Martin
Buzz Martin
Top Songs
| 1 | Sick Of Setting Chokers | ||
| 2 | Different Kind of Breed of A Truck Driving Man | ||
| 3 | Fire Danger | ||
| 4 | Where There Walks a Logger There Walks a Man | ||
| 5 | Whistle Punk Pete |
Albums
Jan 2005 • 20 songs
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About
Biography
"The Singing Logger," Buzz Martin was the poet laureate of the timber industry, exploring through song the trials and tribulations of the brave men who risk life and limb working the forests of the Pacific Northwest. He was born Lloyd Earl Martin in a tent outside of Coon Holler, OR, on September 15, 1928. A cataract condition left him blind at age 13 and he was sent to the Oregon State School for the Blind, where he began his musical education. An experimental surgical procedure later restored Martin's sight, but in the interim he lost both of his parents, so he spent the rem...