Steve Earle and Dwight Yoakam and myself were the 'three next princes.' It took me about five minutes to realize it wasn't gonna happen for me. Stuart says what kicked him into his current overdrive was his emergence from his "great depression" of 1987-89 following his divorce from Cash's daughter Cindy and being dropped from Columbia Records after two unsuccessful albums. He's really the person to carry on that tradition, yet he really rocks out." Harris, who met Stuart in 1973 when she was touring with her mentor Gram Parsons says Stuart has "absorbed all the real solid gold stuff, but he's making it his own with his writing and bringing a whole new, young perspective to it. He also performed with country and rock stars including Monroe, Dylan, The Everly Brothers, Doc Watson, Billy Joel, Neil Young and Emmylou Harris. Stuart toured with Lester Flatt until his death in 1979, then spent six years in Cash's band. The musical influences are as varied as the wardrobe. It's just all my favorite influences that I wrap the music in." His total look, he says, is "Porter Wagoner and Gene Autry and Roy Rogers and Johnny Cash and Ernest Tubb, with a shot of Bob Dylan just for good measure." "The haircut comes from there, the boots from here, the style of the coat from there. More recently, he favors black outfits, a sort of "Cash with flash" look. Stuart favors studs, fancy stitching, arrow designs-lots of arrow designs-and brightly colored boots. "Mind you, if you wear the pants and the coat, you get beat up." To Stuart, it's "wearable art" that he assembles into outfits at once casual and chic. Most of Stuart's new outfits are tailored by Manuel, also responsible for Dwight Yoakam's glitz-and-grit look, and the protege of the late, outrageous Nudie the Tailor, who brought country flash to its peak in the 1950s. His bus, a rolling shrine to Tubb with its hand-tooled leather interior and names of performing legends burned into its wooden panels, carries stage suits worn by Williams, Cash and Porter Wagoner. Stuart's mania for country's yesteryear is evident in his 300-piece collection of spangled show-biz garb. Much of his collector-quality wardrobe is vintage stuff. The accompanying video cemented his image as a brash and colorful stage performer, recalling the country flash of the '50s and '60s. Stuart got the attitude and latitude to create Tempted when he scored a top 10 country hit in 1990 with "Hillbilly Rock," a short history course in country music. The fact I could get that on a mainstream country record just blew my mind." "It rocks, it twangs, it has that Appalachian harmony thing and it has blues, all wrapped up by two of the master architects. The album's opener, "I'm Blue, I'm Lonesome" by Bill Monroe and Hand Williams, "says everything I need to say about country music," Stuart declares. Yet it's that very mix that makes him stand out. Some said he was too rootsy-country others said too rock. At the same time, the Mississippi native faced industry ambivalence. It's the first fulfillment of what Nashville's Old Guard has been saying for years: Stuart's talent and credentials were bound to carry him to stardom. That's given him the fodder to hook up with Tritt for their No Hats Tour. Radio is jumping on the just-out fourth release, "Burn Me Down," written in 1965 by Eddie Miller ("Release Me"). What's enabled Stuart to step from sideman to star is Tempted, which as produced three hits. "Well, for one minute I did, but I thought, hell, I don't know how to do anything else." "I never doubted it would happen," says Stuart of his emergent star status. 4 country hit, "The Whiskey Ain't Workin'," and are co-headlining one of the hottest tours on the road. He and pal Travis Tritt have the current No. His current much-praised album, Tempted, is his breakthrough work. Only this time, the wide-eyed kid with the mean mandolin-who backed Lester Flatt and Johnny Cash-is a rooster-haired, glitterbilly comer. Twenty years later, the venerable bus, so worn it no longer rattles, again is whizzing Stuart cross-country. Marty Stuart Breaks Out With HIs Own Musical Mix - USA Today - 1992 Marty Stuart Breaks Out With His Own Musical MixĪt 13, on Ernest Tubb's tour bus, Marty Stuart learned to love the life of a road musician-and to play a decent hand of poker.
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