Buzz Martin the Singing Logger

Have you guys heard of this guy?

He put out two records, I think. I have one of them, the one that is called, I think, The Singing Logger.

I thought of this after looking at the spoken word endings thread because he's got this song, "Butterin' up Biscuit," about how he's always gotta prime his old lady, warm her up, you know, to make love to her, and at the end he's - no, wait, I've got the wrong song. That is what that song's about, but the spoken outro is for "Retired Song," which is about retiring and visiting your kids more and having a lot of free time. So he says something like,

"I'll have to take Ma out to a movie, maybe one of them new [porno?] movies . . . and she'll say, 'They can't do that, can they?' and I'll say, 'Shut up, Ma, and watch the movie.' "

While it's fading out. He does it better. It's funny when he does it.

He's got a good voice.

He also sings this pretty song - well, I don't know about pretty, but it's touching - called "Always Plenty of Water," which he wrote. He sings, "There was always plenty of water/ I can feel it runnin' down my neck yet/ Some kids learn to feel the rain/ And others just get wet."

His son is selling a twofer on CDBaby and he says that Buzz drowned in Alaska in the early Eighties.

This is the one I have. Those are serious sideburns!
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This is the other one on the twofer.
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This is one I just found, so he has at least three.
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Dig the song titles!

I transcribed these lyrics for class and so I'm sharing them here.

Buzz Martin
“Retired Song”
from the album (The Singing Logger)

My wore out boots
Battered tin hat
Kicked around lunch bucket
Things like that
Scattered all over
My garage floor
I ain’t a-gonna need
Them things no more

Seems kind of strange
I don’t feel old
I work in the rain
The heat or the cold
But the company told me
That it’s required
When you reach my age
You get retired

Since I was a kid
Things sure changed a lot
There’s no more demand
For the knowledge I got
You gotta go to college
Now to even to get hired
And us old boys
Well, we get retired

I wonder if old Swamp still lives up on the old home place. Ah, I haven’t seen him for a long time. Used to be a good fishin’ hole up there, if I remember right. ‘Bout time I dropped in on him, I guess.

They didn’t even give me
A gold watch and chain
An honorary dinner
But I never complain
I spent my life doin’
Just what I desired
And maybe it’s time
I got retired

Got a new fishin’ pole
A new knapsack
A Datsun pickup
With a camper on back
And I get reacquainted
With them children I sired
And all my grandkids
Now that I am retired

I think I’ll take Ma to one of them x-rated movies. That oughta put some color back in her cheeks. She’d probably sit there sayin’, “Hey, they can’t do that. Can they do that?” I’ll just tell her and say, “Shut up, Ma, and watch the movie.”

Man, I'd love to hear this stuff! If you ever rip it and upload it on the net, drop me an email or something.