Wha? You’ve never heard of Bug Martin?! Get on the ball, man! Seriously though Martin a Philly-via-Baltimore singer/songwriter who’s been on the scene for several years but this is the first I’d heard of him. For a guy playing bluesy/folky/country kinda stuff he sure looks the part with a 10-gallon hat and vest standing in front of a bar (plus his name’s Bug!). But the dude’s got some serious talent. Most of the tunes are him on vocals and guitar or banjo (there’s some bits and pieces of percussion, too) and he can spin a yarn with the best of ‘em.  Cuts like “Hypocrites’s Rag”  (takin’ aim at the bible thumpers), “Bartender” (we all know a few of them) and “Untitled” (ed.2019)”  which spins and dreams and eventually comes back down to earth are but three tunes that are worthy of your time. If you dig songs straight from the heart then you’ll wanna check out Bug Martin. He dedicated this album “to the oddballs, roustabouts and ne’er do-wells for whom these songs ain’t just music.” That to me sounds like YOU. www.pyrrhicvictoryrecordings.com