Marty Wendell is a unique singer, songwriter, and recording artist.  Marty grew up in Ticonderoga, a small town in upstate New York.  As a child he spent many hours listening to all kinds of music on an old Philco radio.  This was before radio stations played only a particular genre which made it possible for him to be exposed to rockabilly, folk, pop. country, blues and gospel.  In the later part of the 50’s, influenced by artists who recorded on Sun Records in Memphis, TN, Marty entered a church talent show.  His first time singing in front of a live audience cemented his desire to sing and write songs.  In his college years he began to do more performances.  He met a talent agent, Jerry Teifer, who was based in New York City, who introduced him to Johnny Cash.  In the mid-sixties he ventured into New York’s Greenwich Village with his guitar and was discovered by a produced, Stanley Rowland, who first took him into the recording studio.  This session resulted in his first record “Hey Hey Mama” which exceeded 10,000 copies.  He then went with Tom Wilde as his producer who had an independent label, Ferus Records.  In August of 1968 on the strength of “Hey Hey Mama”  he was booked as an opening act for Johnny Cash and his troupe that included The Carter Family, Carl Perkins, and the Statler Brothers.  This was the tour that followed the release of Cash’s Folsom Prison Album which catapulted him into superstardom.      http://martywendell.com/index.html