Little Martha

The song first appeared as the final studio track on the Allman Brothers Band's fourth album, Eat a Peach, released in 1972.

The story goes[1] that Allman had a dream where Jimi Hendrix showed him the melody of the tune in a Holiday Inn motel bathroom, using the sink faucet as a guitar fretboard.

It is commonly believed that the song's namesake was Martha Ellis, a twelve-year-old girl whose grave the Allman Brothers Band most likely came across during their frequent trips to Rose Hill Cemetery in their homebase of Macon, Georgia.

It was also interwoven into bassist Oteil Burbridge's bass solos during certain live shows in the late 1990s by The Allman Brothers Band.

Pickin' On The Allman Brothers: A Bluegrass Tribute contains a 3:40 min version of "Little Martha"[2] Guitarist Mac McAnally, a 10 time Country Music Association musician of the year and a long time member of The Coral Reefer Band, Jimmy Buffett's backing band, often plays Little Martha solo during an interlude in the main show.