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  • May 8, 1928
    Fiddler Benny Martin is born in Sparta, Tennessee. Beginning professionally as a teenager, he becomes a sideman for Bill Monroe, Flatt & Scruggs, Kitty Wells and Roy Acuff, among others
    Oct 20, 1956
    Fiddler Benny Martin makes his first solo appearance on the Grand Ole Opry
    Oct 4, 1965
    CBS-TV's "The Steve Lawrence Show" presents a salute to country music, with Eddy Arnold, Grandpa Jones, The Jordanaires, The Stoney Mountain Cloggers and fiddlers Shorty Lavender, Benny Martin and Tommy Vaden
    May 5, 1982
    Dolly Parton and two publishers file a lawsuit in a preemptive effort to prove her song "9 To 5" does not infringe on Benny Martin's "Me And My Fiddle"
    Mar 13, 2001
    Fiddler Benny Martin dies in a Nashville hospital. The inventor of the eight-string fiddle, he played with Roy Acuff, Bill Monroe and Flatt & Scruggs, among others

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