She owns one of the most powerful, pristine voices in country music.Ībsolutely. And I’m doing an album of instrumental hillbilly surf music!Ĭonnie has three albums that she’s working on, too, so that’s six albums total by the end of the year. I’m producing Connie’s and they’re gonna be great, great records. Connie sings from the heart. Well, I’m sitting here right now with a pile of about 20 songs for my next album, and we’ve got three more songs to go on a gospel record that I’m doing with the Superlatives. What’s the status on new music from you as a recording artist? The best word to describe it is “need.” I needed to do it. She wanted it to be authentic and get back in touch with her roots, draw from her experiences. With Kathy’s album, Coal, she came to me with this desire to shine a light on the coal-mining industry, something she was familiar with being from West Virginia. It’s about a need. With Porter’s album, I wanted to keep his legacy intact. I thought it would be a great injustice for the integrity and dignity of one our statesmen, one of our elder chiefs, to be overlooked and brushed aside.
It all depends on the feeling that gets inside me. What about the role of producer feeds your creative spirit? Recently you served as producer on Porter Wagoner’s final album (2007’s Wagonmaster) and Kathy Mattea’s critically-acclaimed project, Coal. Just because it’s not front and center, in the mainstream, it doesn’t mean that it’s still there. There’s a great singer, Sunny Sweeney, from Texas and a lot of really cool bluegrass acts, like SteelDrivers and this guy from Kentucky, Trey Hensley. All these artists keep the tradition alive and well. Brad Paisley has a heart for it, Keith Urban has a heart for it, even artists that don’t get played on the radio all the time are doing it. It’s our turn to scoot it on down the line. What artists now do you trust to keep the flame burning?Ī lot of people, Ricky (Skaggs), Vince (Gill), me, Alan (Jackson), Patty (Loveless), Alison (Krauss). You’ve mentioned how Johnny Cash passed down the torch to you and the younger generation in the 1980s. There were a lot of people that were looking for this type of show. Right off the bat, with the response that we’ve gotten, it seems to be working. It’s just as tailor-made as a Nudie suit (laughs). Each segment is sculpted around the individual artists. Connie (Smith, legendary country singer and Stuart’s wife) says that it’s just one smile from top to bottom. In the thirty minutes, something will appeal to every viewer. I heard somebody say that the show is a throwback, but to me, it’s taking the tradition and putting a new twist on it, bringing it into the present day. It’s been that way since Little Jimmy Dickens kicked off the first show. We’ve got six more shows in Season One and after we tour this summer and work on some new projects, we’ll be thinking about what we did right, what we can improve, and go on with the next season. From the first note, there’s not one stray moment, not a bum song, not a throwaway performance. Have you had a favorite guest on the show or a favorite moment that’s transpired during the taping? I’m just trying to present country music as a part of American culture, our heritage. You know, you have your Kenny Chesneys and Taylor Swifts, and they’re great for the genre, but this is the absolute other end of the country universe, the real traditional stuff. I wanted to give it a voice and show the integrity and entertainment value. Traditional country has so few outlets now. There was nothing like it on television at the time. As a country music fan, I loved those old syndicated shows- The Porter Wagoner Show, The Johnny Cash Show, The Flatt & Scruggs Show, The Wilburn Brothers Show. I loved the spirit of those shows and started talking to Patrick (Carr, Stuart’s biographer) and really wanted to develop this idea.
I’m a big fan of the network and I’ve watched it grow. The most important thing was the right setting, the channel, RFD (a Nashville-based television station focused on rural America programming). What was the single driving force behind creating The Marty Stuart Show? What are your hopes for the future of the program? Stuart discusses the development of the show, his thoughts on the future of country music and his role in honoring its past. His most recent project is The Marty Stuart Show, a weekly television program airing Saturday nights on RFD-TV. A member of the Country Music Foundation and the Grand Ole Opry, he’s preserved the traditions of the genre by assembling a collection of country-related artifacts that has no rival. Widely acclaimed as one of country music’s greatest warriors, Marty Stuart turned a childhood obsession into a lifelong career filled with hit records and collaborations with numerous Nashville legends.
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