I have a funny story about Duane Allman's Little Martha. First though, Kottke called Little Martha "the most perfect guitar song ever written." Hard to disagree with that. Dickey Betts loved playing it, too.
But my story: My dog Sirius hated doorbells .. they drove him nuts. Play a descending major third on the piano or guitar, and Sirius would run to the door barking. In about 2003, I started a series of road trips between Dallas and Brevard, NC, to a mountain house we we had purchased in Transylvania County.
I always carried the two dogs with me on the trips to NC, Sirius and a young Nick-Nick, and a lot of CDs for the road. The Allman Bros. "Eat a Peach" was one of my favorite albums.
Well, I had to stop playing Little Martha because the guitar doorbell riff, a descending E-major third, drove Sirius wild. He wouldn't ride in a car kennel (but Nick loved the kennel cage, thankfully), so it was downright dangerous to have Sirius hopping all over the car barking at a doorbell. And it happens at least twice in the song.
Back to Leo Kottke .. his was the best ever cover of Little Martha.
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