"little martha" ~~i just love duane, man. this version is in open Dmaj but lets face it , its just a capo away from open Emaj….same fingering, different key… "Little Martha", the ninth and final composition on The Allman Brothers Bands fourth album, Eat A Peach, was the first and only Allman Brothers track written solely by group leader and partial namesake Duane Allman, who would die on October 29, 1971, shortly after the recording sessions that produced it. Allmans original recording of the song is a bouncy fingerstyle acoustic guitar duet with minimal accompaniment. Allman and bandmate Dickey Betts played the tune on 6-string guitars using open E tuning. The songs simple melody and rhythmic counterpoint quickly made it a favorite among fans; acoustic guitar virtuoso Leo Kottke, who often covered the song in performance, once called it "the most perfect guitar song ever written". Song Origin The story goes that Allman had a dream where Jimi Hendrix showed him the melody of the tune in a Holiday Inn motel bathroom, using the sink faucet as a guitar fretboard. Remembering the melody during the October 1971 sessions that produced most of the third side of what would become Eat A Peach, Allman laid down the track, joined only by Dickey Betts and bassist Berry Oakley, though Oakleys part would be mixed out of the final version, leaving the number as a duet for the two guitarists. (Oakleys part would be restored on the 1989 box set Dreams.) The songs namesake was <b>…<b>

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26 thoughts on “"little martha"”

  8. Martha Troy
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    Beautiful! Thanks for the history of the song..always wondered about it…

  9. arjhendrix
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    nice rendition bro. thx fo the info.
    nice dream he had.
    Peace

  11. GUITARPLAYER45324
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    that was awesome brother….thanks for taking the time to record this and type in all that info…alot of that stuff I never knew.

  13. mavis41558
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    Good, Very Good.

    Makes me know I need to practice more.

    Thanks.

  14. SoEpicRightNow
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    favorite song ever. alot of things come to mind…. maybe when i was younger the most. memories

  19. kiaweking
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    Just when I thought I was losing it!! Ha Ha Ha
    You one tricky bugga you 🙂
    Still a great song.
    Have a good fun weekend…
    Aloha,
    Thomas

  21. strat2caster
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    hey thanks for the thoughtful comment! i’m gonna see them at waneefest in florida, i see them there annually, the best concert of the year! i wish i could make one of those beacon shows tho, i have dvd of one of them

  22. Mastas999
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    this song is literally perfect rip skydog by far my favorite guitarist and in my mind the best and u got the story of the song down perfect 🙂 cant w8 to see the allman brothers at the becan theatre this april gonna be amazing

  23. strat2caster
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    awesome bro ,glad to help…post it up when you get it down !

  24. strat2caster
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    awesome bro ,glad to help…post it up when you get it down !

  25. strat2caster
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    awesome bro ,glad to help…post it up when you get it down !

  26. Peter Mindnich
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    i typically play this in open g tuning and just figured out its in open d four days before an audition for the music school of my dreams, watching this vid is deff gonna help me make the transition from the previous tuning of g to d

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