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On Blues harmonica, Mick Martin has played professionally since 1968 and, since 1983, led "Mick Martin and the Blues Rockers." On March 31, 1994, Mick did something highly unusual for a harmonica player: he performed at Carnegie Hall for the nationally-broadcast "Blues in Jazz" concert with mentor Jimmy Smith, Jimmy Witherspoon, Grover Washington Jr., Carrie Smith and Mark Whitfield. That same year, he was featured on Jimmy Smith's Fantasy/Milestone Records release, Sum Serious Blues. Mick has played harmonica on stage behind Freddie King, Jimmy Rogers, Bo Diddley, Mick Taylor, the Yardbirds, Roy Brown and many others. He is a featured artist on Dig Music's Bob Dylan tribute, "Positively 12th & K," which also features Sal Valentino and Jackie Greene.

Mick shared the “Best West Coast Blues Harmonica Player” nod with Mark Hummel in 2001. Mick Martin and the Blues Rockers have won the Sacramento Area Music Award (a.k.a. the SAMMIES) for “Best Blues Band” three times, thus entitling them to a place in the SAMMIES Hall of Fame.

Mick Martin has been producing and hosting the Blues for 17 years, beginning with "The KZAP Blues Show" in August of 1989. He joined the staff of KXJZ in July 1991 to create "Mick Martin's Blues Party."

 

 

 

 

Living Blues Top 25 -- Mick Martin's Blues Party -- February 2010

1. Guitar Shorty/Bare Knuckle/Alligator Records

2.Taildragger/Live at Rooster's Lounge/Delmark Records

3. Nick Moss/Privileged/Blue Bella

4. Otis Clay/Walk a Mile in My Shoes/Echo Records

5. Laurie Morvan/Fire It Up!/Screaming Lizard Records

6. Savoy Brown/Too Much of a Good Thing/Panache Records

7. The Holmes Brothers/Feed My Soul/Alligator Records

8. R.J. Mischo/Knowledge You Can't Get in College/Greaseland Records

9. The Nighthawks/Last Train to Bluesville/Rip Bang Records

10. The Back Alley Players/Beyond the Blues/BAP Records

11. Don Ray Band/On Top of the Heap/Margodon Records

12. Earl Thomas with Paddy Milner & the Big Sounds/Big Sounds Music

13. Gov't Mule/By a Thread/Evil Teen Records

14. Uvee Hayes/Play Something Pretty for Me/Mission Park Records

15. Eric Bibb/Booker's Guitar/Telarc Blues

16. Moreland & Arbuckle/Flood/Telarc Blues

17. Solomon King/Under the Sun/Blue Skunk Music

18. Travis "Moonchild" Haddix/I'm One, You're One, Too/Benevolent Blues

19. Mike Oborn/Fire & Fury/Je Gage Records

20. Chainsaw Dupont/The Real Guitar Hero/Chicago Blues Records

21. Kilborn Alley/Better Off Now!/Blue Bella Records

22. Tommy Keys/The Man in the Moon/LPF Records

23. Cash Box Kings/1-94 Blues/Blue Bella Records

24. Kansas City Blues Band/Danger Zone/Serenity Hill Records

25. Cee Cee James/Low Down Where the Snakes Crawl/FWG Records

Submitted by Mick Martin, host/producer of "Mick Martin's Blues Party" 1-5 p.m. Saturdays on 90.9 FM KXJZ Sacramento, 90.5 FM KKTO Tahoe City/Reno, 91.3 FM KUOP Stockton/Modesto, 88.1 FM KQNC, Quincy and www.capradio.org. Mick Martin, the Blues Party, 3912 Little Rock Drive, Antelope CA 95843; (916) 348-1955

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