Noted freelance writer Mark Sullivan writes about Mac's balance of work life and a musician's life: Mark Sullivan Writings

Mr. Jerome Clark of Rambles.Net writes that "Mac Martin, guitarist and vocalist, has been performing bluegrass in Pittsburgh and western Pennsylvania since the mid-1950s.  He and his band, who do not in point of fact travel Dixie, are known for their straightforward traditional approach and well-chosen material.  Most band members have been with Martin for years, in some cases decades, and the result is a tight yet easygoing approach that recalls Flatt & Scruggs and the Foggy Mountain Boys in their peak period.  Basically, Travelin' On, like Martin's other records, subscribes to bluegrass as it was conceived in the 1950s, when it had one foot in earlier mountain sounds and another in then-commercial country."

Mac has written a feature story on the WWVA Jamboree that is published in the latest edition of Bluegrass Unlimited.

Mac describes his recollections of the early country and bluegrass entertainers that formed the Jamboree.  The article starts off with a reprint of the WWVA Jamboree cast picture from 1952 and recounts the wide range of talented musicians that belonged to or visited the Jamboree during its seventy two years of existence.  Mac talks about the early performers such as Doc Williams, Big Slim with Toby Stroud, Wilma Lee and Stony Cooper, and Red Belcher.  The Jamboree staff had wide ranging effects on bluegrass and country music as the Jamboree managed multiple country music parks.  Mac conveys how these summer venues were precursors to the bluegrass festivals of today and also showcased the talents of WWVA Jamboree performers.