Chris Martin Trio

--2014 Music Nova Scotia "Blues Recording of the Year" WINNER --2013 East Coast Music Association "Blues Recording of the Year" nominee. --2012 Music Nova Scotia "Blues Recording of the Year" nominee. --"Favourite Blues Act", Silver Winner- The Coast Best of Music Readers Survey --New recording, "Young Blood", released May, 2014, on Let's Riot! Music/Rockabilly Roads (Playground Music Scandinavia). "The Trio carves out a sound as big as a barn and twice as echoey" THE CHRONICLE HERALD "The elder statesmen of rockabilly in Halifax" NOISEOGRAPHY "Chris Martin is a soul from eras past." HERE MAGAZINE "The perfect old-timey rock & roll voice" NOISEOGRAPHY "Chris Martin knows the importance of looking to the future and the past simultaneously." THE COAST "...incorporating a more rhythm and blues sound into straight-up rockabilly roots." THE COAST “Chris Martin has the attitude and the chops to resurrect the rowdy roots of Rock! A good time is guaranteed for all!” -TERRY PULLIAM- OWNER/PRODUCER, SOUNDMARKET RECORDING Chris Martin Trio (Halifax, NS) Genre: rockabilly blues For the last decade, guitarist Chris Martin has been hard at work ensuring that the spirit of blues, swing and rockabilly is alive and well in eastern Canada. Since debuting as a solo artist in 2003, Martin has gone on to an illustrious career as a front man, producer and record label owner (Let's Riot! Music). Basically, if it's hip and happening in the rockabilly community in Halifax, Martin is on the pulse of it. He first gained widespread notoriety with The Trouble Shooters. Joined by a full band, including a brass ensemble, Martin's Trouble Shooters were a staple of the downtown scene in Halifax throughout their duration. They released a superb full-length collection of high stakes rockabilly and loose jump blues in 2012, A Whole 'Nother Thang, which earned them 'Blues Recording Of The Year' nominations from the East Coast Music Association and Music Nova Scotia. And now, as if an old soul like Martin could get any deeper down into the roots of it all, he's decided to strip down to a grittier trio platform, featuring ex-Trouble Shooter Stu Hayward on bass duties, and drummer extraordinaire Dru Donovan. The full-length album, Young Blood, released in April 2014 features the nuanced and authentic-feeling single "12 Bar Blues (Searching For You)", accompanied by a video that frames perfectly the kind of wild times typical of a Chris Martin show. The Trio's live sets are tight, blending original material seamlessly with covers of classics by Muddy Waters, Chuck Berry, T-Bone Walker and Slim Harpo. If you're looking for a guy to help you cut loose after a long day of the blues, look no further than Halifax's own Chris Martin. Personnel: Chris Martin (voice/guitar), Stu Hayward (bass), Dru Donovan (drums) rockabilly blues for your soul!