Martin, from Atlanta, Georgia, was a musician and songwriter who lived in Nashville before moving to Los Angeles.
While working on a Neil Young tribute album, Borrowed Tunes, the Skydiggers introduced Martin to Scott Dibble (from the Toronto band Watertown) and Mark Sterling from Edmonton.
With some material already written by Dibble and Sterling, the band released a follow-up album, Under the Big Sky in 1995.
"Watch Over You" received a SOCAN Award in 1997 as one of the ten most-played Canadian songs on radio that year.
Mark Sterling is also actively songwriting, having released three solo albums including his self-titled debut (1996), The Well (1999) and Take From It What You Need (2009).