Julian Cramer
Julian Cramer (died 1986) was a mandolin player from Martinsville, Indiana. He played mandolin for his own enjoyment and at community events, admired Bill Monroe and traveled to the Brown County bluegrass festival. He was a friend and fellow musician of Memphis Beck Gentry of the Falls City Ramblers. He played mandolin and banjo on Old Photographs, the 1984 album by Roy Gentry and Memphis Beck, recorded in Cincinnati. Outside music he worked as a builder, completing his own brick cottage in Martinsville in 1930, and he painted local buildings.
In the newsletter
- No. 32 April 2003