Forget the country bro, his
sexy tractor, and his honky-tonk badonkadonk: While
Marty Stuart has mastered most flavors of country
music, he’s left that particular field for those
with tribal tattoos to plow. The Mississippi native
spent his teens touring with bluegrass maestro
Lester Flatt and five years in Johnny Cash’s band
before striking out on his own in the 1980s. Drawing
as much from bluegrass as from rockabilly and
traditional country, Stuart’s catalog exemplifies
the label “neo-traditionalist.” But don’t let that
suggest he’s a museum exhibit — with four decades of
craft at his disposal and his band of 14 years, The
Fabulous Superlatives, behind him, Stuart kicks up a
hell of a boogie storm that’ll party you under the
table before you can finish setting up for beer
pong.
By
Stephen Trageser
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