Mr. Good 'N Country Music, released by Decca in 1966, was Jimmy Martin's mid-1960s play for a broader country audience, with arrangements that leaned slightly farther toward Nashville convention than the band's earlier Decca outings while preserving his signature rhythm guitar and confident lead vocal. The Sunny Mountain Boys had been one of the toughest finishing schools in bluegrass through the late 1950s and early 1960s, and the album represents a working-band moment when the unit had a settled cohesion. Martin's commitment to a hard, joyful, on-the-beat sound never let the production stray too far, and the LP joins the run of Decca albums that defined him as the self-styled King of Bluegrass.
Tracklist
- 1 The last song 2:46
- 2 The summer's come and gone 2:21
- 3 Tennessee Waltz alt version 3:41
- 4 Mr. Engineer alt version 2:40
- 5 Sweet Dixie 2:17
- 6 The good things (outweigh the bad) 3:00
- 7 Hi-de diddle 2:21
- 8 Lost Highway alt version 2:45
- 9 I can't quit cigarettes 3:11
- 10 Fraulein 2:44
- 11 Run boy run 1:50
- 12 You're gonna change (or I'm gonna leave) 3:03
