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20-463: A member of The Nashville A-Team , he played guitar on hits such as Marty Robbins ' " El Paso ", Loretta Lynn 's " Coal Miner's Daughter " and Sammi Smith 's " Help Me Make It Through the Night ". During a nearly 50-year career, Martin backed such names as Hank Williams , Elvis Presley , Buddy Holly , Johnny Burnette , Don Woody and Arlo Guthrie , Johnny Cash , Patsy Cline and Bing Crosby . He

40-486: A Country Pop and Traditional Country style. The album was later reviewed by Allmusic which gave it three out of five stars. Satin Sheets was originally released as the lead and title track of an LP record which comprised 11 songs. The album has never been issued on conventional compact disc but has been available on CreateSpace recordable audio CD since April 16, 2012. Satin Sheets' name derived from

60-535: A session that took place in April 1973. Most of the songs on the album were aimed more towards a Traditional country style, unlike the conventional Nashville Sound musical style used at the time on most country music sessions. This was seen particularly on songs such as the title track and "Walking Piece of Heaven". Many of the songs consisted of themes about passion and romance, including the title track, "Is Her Love Any Better Than Mine" and "Your Memory's Comin' On" in

80-661: Is a member of the Rockabilly Hall of Fame and was elected to the Country Music Hall of Fame in March 2015. Grady Martin was born in Chapel Hill, Tennessee , United States. He grew up on a farm with his oldest sister, Lois, his older brothers, June and Bill, and his parents, Claude and Bessey; and had a horse he named Trigger. His mother played the piano and encouraged his musical talent. At age 15, Martin

100-723: The same name as the album . The single reached number one on the Billboard Country Chart. The album was released in late spring 1973. Satin Sheets contained ten tracks of newly recorded material. The album was recorded in three separate sessions at Bradley's Barn studio in Mount Juliet, Tennessee . The first session took place in December 1972, which recorded the title track and "Sweet Sweetheart". In January 1973, "Ive Been Wrong for So Long" and "Lonely Women Cryin" were recorded. The final songs were recorded in

120-805: The Canadian RPM Country Tracks chart and number seventy six on the RPM Top Singles Chart. Satin Sheets was released around the same time its single became a major hit. The album peaked at number 1 on the Billboard Magazine Top Country Albums chart and number 122 on the Billboard 200 albums chart. Satin Sheets spent eight weeks at number one on the Top Country Albums, becoming the second-longest running album on

140-857: The Musicians Hall of Fame in 2007. He was married three times and had three daughters, Alisa, Angie and Julie; and seven sons, Grady Jr., Joe, Tal, Jason, Joshua, Justin and Steve. Martin died from a heart attack on December 3, 2001, in Lewisburg, Tennessee , and was interred at Hopper Cemetery in Marshall County, Tennessee . With Eric Andersen With Hoyt Axton With Joan Baez With J. J. Cale With Don Everly With Arlo Guthrie With Ronnie Hawkins With Roy Orbison With John Prine With Leon Russell With Buffy Sainte-Marie With Kai Winding The Nashville A-Team The Nashville A-Team

160-587: The Nashville A-Team. In 2007, The Nashville A-Team was inducted into the Musicians Hall of Fame and Museum in Nashville. That year's inductees included Harold Bradley , Floyd Cramer , Pete Drake , Ray Edenton , Hank Garland , Buddy Harman , Tommy Jackson , Grady Martin , Charlie McCoy , Bob Moore , Boots Randolph , Hargus "Pig" Robbins , and Jerry Kennedy . Noteworthy also is

180-590: The Nashville All-Stars album with Chet Atkins titled After the Riot at Newport , the Hank Garland LP entitled Velvet Guitar , Tupper Saussy 's Said I to Shostakovitch , Kai Winding 's Modern Country , Gary Burton 's Tennessee Firebird and Chester and Lester by Chet Atkins and Les Paul . The progressive country band Area Code 615 was composed almost entirely of members of

200-523: The Night ", among the most successful country singles of all time. In the early 1970s, Martin played on many records by Loretta Lynn and Conway Twitty , worked with Kris Kristofferson and produced the country-rock band Brush Arbor. Martin appeared on almost all of Cline's Decca sessions, from August 1961 to her last session in February 1962, during which time he backed her on songs such as: In 1978, with his studio career over, Martin returned to

220-724: The Radio Playboys followed by a stint with the Bailes Brothers Band. By 1950, Martin was a part of the rising Nashville recording scene as a studio guitarist and fiddler, and his guitar hooks propelled Red Foley 's " Chattanoogie Shoe Shine Boy " and "Birmingham Bounce". In 1951, he signed with Decca Records with his own country-jazz band, Grady Martin and the Slew Foot Five. In addition to backing mainstream acts like Bing Crosby and Burl Ives , they began to record in their own right, with later sessions under

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240-637: The Road Again ", Ray Price 's " For the Good Times " and Jeanne Pruett 's " Satin Sheets ". Martin is credited with accidentally stumbling onto the electric guitar " fuzz" effect during a recording session with Robbins at Bradley Studios in Nashville; his guitar was run through a faulty channel in a mixing console , generating the fuzz sound on "Don't Worry". In the 1960s, he played on sessions with Joan Baez , J. J. Cale and others, and played on Sammi Smith 's 1971 hit, " Help Me Make it Through

260-548: The Rockabilly Hall of Fame. On April 5, 2000, he received a Chetty award for significant instrumental achievement at Nashville's Ryman Auditorium during the Chet Atkins Musician Days festival. Health problems prevented Martin from attending; Nelson, Vince Gill and Marty Stuart presented the award—named after Atkins, who attended—to Martin's son, Joshua. Grady Martin was inducted into

280-610: The album's title track, which was the lead single and only single released from the album. The single released in February 1973, becoming Pruett's first major hit, peaking at number one on the Billboard Magazine Hot Country Singles chart the week of May 23 and number 28 on the Billboard Hot 100 shortly afterward. The single later returned to number one on the country chart the week of June 23. In addition, it also peaked at number three on

300-537: The fact that many A-Team members went on to have solo careers of their own. Notable members of "The Nashville A-Team" included: Satin Sheets Satin Sheets is the second studio album released by American country artist Jeanne Pruett . The album was released in June 1973 on MCA Records and was produced by Walter Haynes . The album contained Pruett's first major hit and signature song of

320-602: The guitar on the Marty Robbins hits " El Paso " (1959) and " Don't Worry " (1961), on Roy Orbison's " Oh, Pretty Woman " (1964) and Lefty Frizzell 's " Saginaw, Michigan " (1964). His guitar work was also displayed in Johnny Horton 's " The Battle of New Orleans " (1959) and " Honky Tonk Man " (1956), and especially his pure rockabilly sound on " I'm Coming Home " (1957). He shaped countless other classics, including Brenda Lee 's " I'm Sorry ", Willie Nelson 's " On

340-454: The life of a touring musician, first with Jerry Reed and then as lead guitarist for Willie Nelson's band, appearing in Nelson's 1980 film Honeysuckle Rose . In 1994, deteriorating health forced him to retire, but he produced Nelson's 1995 honky tonk album, Just One Love . The Nashville Entertainment Association gave him its first Master Award in 1983, and he was the 83rd inductee into

360-430: The name Grady Martin and his Winging Strings when he introduced his twin-neck Bigsby guitar. The band, with Hank Garland , Bob Moore , Tommy Jackson and Bud Isaacs made regular appearances on ABC-TV's Ozark Jubilee in the mid-1950s. It was as a session musician starting in the late 1950s that Martin made his greatest mark on country and rockabilly music. As a guitarist with The Nashville A-Team , he provided

380-871: Was a nickname given to a group of session musicians in Nashville, Tennessee , who earned wide acclaim in the 1950s, 1960s, and early 1970s, similar to their West Coast counterpart who became known (after the fact) as the Wrecking Crew . Some members of the Nashville A-Team were also subsequently or previously members of the Wrecking Crew. They backed dozens of popular singers, including Elvis Presley , Eddy Arnold , Patsy Cline , Jim Reeves , Bob Dylan , Moon Mullican , Jerry Lee Lewis , Brenda Lee , and others. The Nashville A-Team's members typically had backgrounds in country music but were highly versatile. Examples of their jazz inclinations can be found in

400-698: Was invited to perform regularly on WLAC-AM in Nashville, Tennessee , and made his recording debut two years later on February 15, 1946 with Curly Fox and Texas Ruby in Chicago , Illinois . That same year, he joined Paul Howard's Western swing-oriented Arkansas Cotton Pickers as half of Howard's twin guitar ensemble with Robert "Jabbo" Arrington and performed on the Grand Ole Opry . When Howard left, Opry newcomer Little Jimmy Dickens hired several former Cotton Pickers, including Martin, as his original Country Boys road band. He later joined Big Jeff Bess and

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