There's a fire that burns down in my soul. Can't seem to help myself when it comes to loving you. Time stands still for me every minute that we're apart. MARTY STUART: (Singing) I keep on wanting you with all my heart. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "WHEN IT COMES TO LOVING YOU") This is his song "When It Comes To Loving You." But before revisiting their conversation, let's hear a track from his then-new double album called "Saturday Night/Sunday Morning." The "Saturday Night" album features songs about love and heartbreak, while the "Sunday Morning" album features hymns and gospel songs. When Marty Stuart visited the FRESH AIR studio to talk with Terry Gross in 2014, he brought along his guitar. He's also a photographer of country music performers and fans. Stuart has a huge collection of country music artifacts and memorabilia. Before going solo, he also was a member of Johnny Cash's backup band. He first went on the road when he was 13 years old as a member of Lester Flatt's band. He won five Grammys, but then moved away from commercial country to get back to his and the music's roots. Stuart is a songwriter, singer, guitarist and mandolin player who's had gold and platinum records. In Rolling Stone, Marty Stuart was described as, quote, "one of the last remaining links to traditional country, roots music and the generation of greats like George Jones and Hank Williams," unquote. His induction is scheduled to take place next year. Our guest today is country artist Marty Stuart, who's just been selected for the Country Music Hall of Fame.
MARTY STUART AND MERLE HAGGARD TV
I'm David Bianculli, editor of the website TV Worth Watching, sitting in for Terry Gross. Stuart is the real deal.This is FRESH AIR. Themes of love, death, work, and fun will always be timeless, but not everyone can make them seem so. Stuart makes the music come alive and feel as current and topical today, even as he captures the passion of a bygone era.
Amen, brother, amen.īut these are only three of album’s 15 cuts that evoke the spirit of country music past in a variety of styles, from sweet love songs such as “I Run to You” (sung with his wife, Connie Smith) to jaunty instrumentals like “Hummingbyrd” (a tribute to the Byrds’ guitarist Clarence White in which Stuart plays White’s old guitar) to hot pickin’ standards like “Country Boy Rock & Roll” (with Kenny Vaughn) to… well, it seems silly to name every single song, because they all vary in style and each one’s a winner. Stuart offers a spoken word recitation about an apparition that drives the man from the graveyard to the church as he finds salvation in the ghost of Porter Wagoner. “Porter Wagoner’s Grave” concerns a stranger who seeks shelter from the storm in a cemetery. The two men had become close in Wagoner’s final days, and Stuart produced the man’s final record. Stuart’s tribute to the Wagonmaster is the album’s eeriest track. On this track, Stuart preaches pride and dignity rather than politics as he asks, “What will become of the hard working man?” Stuart cannot answer, but feels compelled to raise the issue in a voice that echoes Haggard’s original anthem. Stuart and Haggard have sung together in the past, most notably on “Farmer’s Blues”. On “Hard Working Man”, he takes on Haggard’s “Working Man’s Blues”, directly citing the song as he notes that the one thing sadder than a working man with no time for his family and fun is one that has nothing to do with his hands. Stuart lets the tale resonate and lets the sound of his guitar do the talking as he seeks g-d’s mercy for the last minute of the tale. “Hangman” tells the tale of an executioner with a troubled conscience about his job. Here Stuart sings a song he co-wrote with Cash just four days before the great man died. Stuart played guitar, mandolin, and fiddle in Cash’s band for many years and even was married to the Man in Black’s daughter for a few years. Stuart’s association with Cash goes way back. Stuart pays tribute to Cash, Haggard, and Wagoner directly on his new album. The new disc is a peach, the sweet and juicy kind where one sucks on the pit because one cannot bear to part with its rich flavor. In fact, he even recorded his latest album in the old RCA Studio B in Nashville where so many classic albums were recorded, including those he made with Lester Flatts’ band when Stuart was a prodigy at a mere 13 years of age. Stuart’s not just nostalgic, he brings that music back to life through his exuberance and talent. To some people, like Marty Stuart, the glory of that sound still lives on, like a ghost train that barrels through the backwoods of the nation. Many fans believe country music in America hit its heyday during the sixties, when individualists like Johnny Cash, Merle Haggard, and Porter Wagoner put their idiosyncratic stamps on the hard driving rhythms and soft spoken truths of that era.
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