Clint Martin Newshttp://www.clintmartinband.com/?pg=news2010Clint and Lindsay's son Case has been diagnosed with a very rare immune deficiency syndrome.  He will be undergoing a stem cell transplant in January at Texas Children's Hospital in Houston.  This is a treatment that can cure his condition.  Please keep Case Martin in your prayers and help him through this very rough time.  Thanks for your prayers and support.  Clint will not be performing any of the January 2012 shows.  Please keep checking back for updates. http://www.clintmartinband.com/?pg=news view slideshow (2 images) BEEVILLE – The Texas Grand will have Beeville jumping with sounds of Texas Country music on Saturday, Nov. 26, when the Jamie Richards Band and the Clint Martin Band pay a visit.The show will open with Clint Martin and his band of musicians. The band leans toward Texas Country and the traditional side of that music with mostly original compositions. His single “I Love Being Me” was on the top 20 list of Texas Country Charts for six weeks in late summer.It’s a song about how Martin feels about life and his career at this point.“I wanted to write a song that showed how I felt about life in general and put a smile on some people’s faces,” said Martin.He and wife Lindsay were blessed with the birth of their firstborn in May of this year and little Case Jarratt Martin is a big part of Martin’s thought of “I Love Being Me.”Martin and his band have toured mainly in Texas and have opened for such notables as Two Tons of Steel, Gary P. Nunn, The Bellamy Brothers and Gretchen Wilson along with the Jamie Richards Band.Clint has been noted as a songwriter and performer who brings a combination of passion and energy at every show. The Jamie Richards Band has been a headliner for several years in Texas and country music arenas. Richards latest CD “Sideways” has gained a lot of radio air time over the year since its release in April 2010. His music is down-home country with a story to tell.His recent single “She’s Cold as the Beer’s She Drinkin” has hit the charts and is a popular single on the local country music radio stations. Other songs of the CD include “A Whole Lot of Lonely,” “I Can Party When I Need To” and “When Love Leaves.”Richards has had at least eight number one country hits and fills clubs, arenas and show palaces every where he goes.The doors at the Texas Grand open at 7:30 p.m. with the Clint Martin Band taking the stage at about 9 p.m. Richards and company will follow at approximately 10:30 p.m. http://www.clintmartinband.com/?pg=news Clint's single "I Love Being Me" has been in the top 20 on Texas Music Chart for 6 weeks!  Thanks to everybody for requesting it and keeping it high on the charts!  Get ready for some more great music  from Clint Martin to be introduced to radio land very soon. http://www.clintmartinband.com/?pg=news Case was born on May 28th!  He weighed in at 7lbs 10 oz and was 20.5 inches long.  Lindsay and Clint's firstborn and he's a handfull!  look for pictures on facebook as Case grows and changes day to day! http://www.clintmartinband.com/?pg=news  Clint Martin’s second album, “Last of a Dying Breed,” will satisfy any Texas/Red Dirt music lover.   It consists of ten songs written solely by Clint. Title track four is a song Clint wrote for his grandpa, who left this world in 2001 due to cancer.  The album features a diverse style of really good country music and Red Dirt guitar and fiddle.  It’s the perfect combination of influences all coming together into one package.  The first song, “I Love Being Me,” makes you want to drive ninety miles per hour on the interstate with the top down.  “Keepin’ it Country” makes you want to hit the dance floor full throttle and get a little crazy. "Storm of Her Memory" has Red Dirt written all over it, and for all the waltz lovers, "Red Rio Grande" will make you grab your dance partner.  From Texas to Red Dirt, you’ll find it all right here on Clint Martin’s “Last of a Dying Breed.”  Check it out!  http://www.clintmartinband.com/?pg=news Clint and Lindsay's life's are going to be changing forever.  They are having a baby boy and couldn't be more excited.  Case Jarratt Martin will be entering this world sometime around the end of May. Clint will be taking some time off in May and June to be home with Lindsay and Case.  July and August will find Clint and the band back out gigging around Texas so make sure you catch a show soon because there will be some downtime through the first half of the summer.  Rumor has it Case already has an acoustic guitar and has been playing it...Kinda of hard to believe.  Maybe he is just kicking, but who knows!http://www.clintmartinband.com/?pg=news Pick up your copy today here on our website!  It's brand new Clint Martin music.  Everything from traditional country to Red Dirt, it's all on this new record Last of a Dying Breed.  Don't wait!http://www.clintmartinband.com/?pg=news Thanks to all the fans who voted for Clint Martin Band for Live Band of the Year!  We appreciate everyone's vote.  Now just go to www.texasmusicawards.org and vote for us again!  There are many cool categories so try to vote for somebody in each!  Thanks again for everybody's support and we look foward to seeing you at the Awards.  http://www.clintmartinband.com/?pg=news Some folks find themselves standing close to the stage on a Saturday night with a cold beverage in hand, just a few feet from their musical idol thinking, "This guy's got it made.  come Monday, I'll be back home to work, but he's off to another 24-hour party.  A musician's life is the life for me."  Make that statenent to Clint Martin, and he'll give you a grin and invite you to his south Texas home for a little horseback riding.  Make sure to wear your boots and jeans.  You'll need them while your're repairing fences and feeding the livestock.  Martin is an old school cowboy who just happens to play music.  His first release, Proven, is evidence that he's here for the long haul. Utilizing the same effort and perseverance it takes to hunt down the calf that wanders from the herd.  Martin won't quit until he realizes his dream.  In a fickle music world where singers transform themselves from country crooner to pop prima donna and vice-versa, Martin is content to pin a single label on himself: "I'm really country", he admnits "I grew up listening to George Strait, Merle Haggard, and George Jones.  Right now there's more and more crossing over from pop to country.  It gets on my nerves when I see pop artists come over to country.  Then, after it fails, they go back to pop.  I think you need to be yourself; if it doesn't work, it doesn't work.  Just don't try to be someone you're not."  At an early age, Martin seemed destined for bright lights.  As a precocious 5 year old, he'd burst into his own version of Strait's "All My Ex's Live in Texas" with a Mickey Mouse guitar.  He was drawn to the Texas country scene after enrolling at Tarleton State University at Stephenville in 2001.  Putting the Disney guitar aside, he purchased a six-string and taught himself enough to be noticed by a local band, Lost Cause.  After a two-year stint, the group disbanded.  At the time of his graduation, from Tarleton in 2005, Martin had already written several songs for what would be his first cd.  The next two years found him running the Texas roads to college towns and musical hot spots, accompanied only by his acoustic guitar and a used PA.  Then came the Clint Martin band in 2007, and recording at Floresville's Cherry Ridge Studios in 2008.  In 2009, Martin emerged with Proven, the 11 track result of his life's dream.  Opening the first cd's is a moment he says he won't forget.  "I had 'em duplicated in Dallas, and my wife and I drove there to pick 'em up, "  he says.  "I remember opening one up and thinking, 'This is a dream come true'.  "What was funny was that three or four days after that, I was still picking it up and looking through it, thinking, "This is cool.  I'm up there with the big boys now.'"  During 2009 Martin put his old-fashioned work ethic to the test, as he and his band shuffled their boots across many a Texas stage.  Their efforts are beginning to reap rewards.  "I just heard myself on the radio for the first time!" he says.  "My wife and I were going to Thanksgiving up in north Texas, and we tuned the radio to KACQ 101.9 in Lampasas.  They finished their local news and immediately got into "West Side of The Tracks"  It took a couple of seconds and then I thought, 'Thats my song!'  I was smiling from ear to ear.  My wife got teary eyed."  Martin has a favorite track on Proven, a reminder of the support and foundation he receives every day from his school teacher wife, Lindsay.  "The Lady She Is" is my favorite song," he says.  "Even though my wife and I are happily married, and it's about a breakup.  The guy is on the raod, traveling and doing his thing, and she says. 'The heck with you.  You're always gone.'  "Years later she comes to one of his gigs and they hook up again.  Then he starts to realize, 'Hey, I've got the treat her like the lady she is.  She's all I ever wanted.'  "My wife is extremely special, and I want her to always be treated like the lady she is.  Like the song says, I want to treat her like I should."  A true Texas cowboy unfazed by hard work, Clint Martin approaches his musical career with the same effort he'd use to wrangle a wayward steer.  "Music has to be something you really want," he says.  "The people who stick with it are the ones that make it."Randy Cunningham is a freelance writer based out of Baytown, Best in Texas Magazinehttp://www.clintmartinband.com/?pg=news On the cover of his new album "Proven." Clint Martin looks like a cowboy facing down the man he's about to meet in a gunfight. But the person he's actually targeting is you. In fact, he's daring you to buy his CD and give it a spin.Clint Martin was born into a South Central Texas family cattle operation, and he's a country boy through and through. His love of music started at an early age, and Clint Martin's music career began after he discovered his passion for Red Dirt music. The rest, as they say, is history, and even country music star Jamie Richards said Martin has "country in his soul." "Proven" begins with the traditional country track "Another Time Another Place." Martin offers laid-back vocals that are as comfortable as your favorite pair of boots. The pace picks up with the bluegrass-infused "Rest Of His Life," and "Satisfied" showcases Clint Martin's traditional country roots.The best songs on the album are the slower ballads. Clint Martin offers a subtle and satisfying vocal performance on "We'll See," which could be a mainstream country chart hit. It has a beautiful melody and lyrics that will strike a chord with country music fans everywhere. "The Lady She Is" is an upbeat country love song that radio will eat up like Rotel cheese dip at the station Christmas party.The biggest surprise on "Proven" is "Old Time Old #7 Whiskey," which is a mixture of outlaw country and southern rock. "West Side Of The Tracks" offers beautiful instrumentation and traditional country lyrics. Other successful songs include: "Dallas," "Blue," "32 Men" and "Love Run Wild."Clint Martin is a country boy who's daring music fans to take a heaping dose of his traditional country music mixed with Texas charm. Once you do, you'll be hooked. Indeed, "Proven" has more than "proven" that Clint Martin is one of the best new Red Dirt acts in the Lone Star State. CountryChart.comhttp://www.clintmartinband.com/?pg=news