Marty Stuart

americana · bluegrass · roots

Marty Stuart is an American country and bluegrass singer, guitarist and mandolinist, born John Marty Stuart on September 30, 1958 in Philadelphia, Mississippi. He turned professional at twelve, joining Lester Flatt's backing band after meeting mandolinist Roland White, and in 1980 moved into Johnny Cash's road band, where he played for most of the decade. His own recording career took hold on MCA Nashville around the turn of the 1990s with Hillbilly Rock (1989) and Tempted (1991); the Travis Tritt duet "The Whiskey Ain't Workin'" reached No. 2 on the country chart and won the 1992 Grammy for Best Country Collaboration with Vocals. He has since won five Grammys from sixteen nominations, joined the Grand Ole Opry in 1992, and was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2020. Since 2002 he has recorded and toured with the Fabulous Superlatives, a band built around guitarist Kenny Vaughan, drummer Harry Stinson and bassist and steel guitarist Chris Scruggs, known for three- and four-part harmony singing and for setting honky-tonk, gospel, surf and bluegrass side by side in a single show. From 2008 to 2014 he hosted The Marty Stuart Show on RFD-TV, a half-hour program featuring the Superlatives, his wife Connie Smith and banjoist Leroy Troy. Way Out West (2017), produced by Mike Campbell of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, and Altitude (2023), his first release for Snakefarm Records, both draw on the cosmic country of the late-1960s Byrds. Stuart is also one of country music's most serious collectors and archivists; his holdings of more than 20,000 artifacts anchor the Congress of Country Music, a campus in his Mississippi hometown that includes the restored Ellis Theater.

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