“It started in the bedroom of a house and now it’s in a warehouse in Mississippi,” he says of his memorabilia, which will eventually find a permanent home at the yet-to-be-constructed Marty Stuart Center in Philadelphia, Mississippi. His collection continued to grow during his adulthood, inspired not only by the Hard Rock’s stockage of gear, but by his respect for the older generation of country stars.
Later, a teenaged Stuart borrowed money from his mother to buy the stage outfits once worn by Porter Wagoner’s band.
“There was a junk store in Nashville on 8th Avenue, where I bought Patsy Cline’s train case for $75,” he says of his childhood years. After all, he’d been building a similar collection at home. He walked through the front doors and was struck by the amount of memorabilia hanging on the walls. While touring through Europe during the early Eighties as a member of Johnny Cash’s band, Stuart visited the original Hard Rock Cafe in London. “It was a very renegade thing to do in the face of that town,” he says. The modern country consumer didn’t know what the hell they were watching.” The Marty Stuart Show‘s refusal to cater to fleeting trends may be one of the reasons the show is now off the air, but its creator is proud he never pandered to his audience – or his city. “They got that show, hook, line and sinker.
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“It entertained the old country audience,” notes Stuart, who hosted the show and performed consistently with his full band.
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The Marty Stuart Show ran for 156 episodes, giving legends like Kitty Wells and Charlie Louvin their final TV appearances. “For years,” he tells Shiflett, “I went around, going, “When will someone do a 21st century version of The Porter Wagoner Show?” When no one stepped up to plate, Stuart created the job himself. Long before his own variety show hit the airwaves in 2008, Stuart wondered why TV networks refused to launch similar programs. The Marty Stuart Show, didn’t fare well with younger crowds.which suited its creator just fine.
Listen to the world premiere of the episode below, and be sure to catch the final moments, where Stuart and Shiflett team up for a loose version of Waylon Jennings’ “Waymore Blues.” The two musicians geek out over Telecaster guitars, Mike Campbell and old country legends, making their way through one of the more spirited installments of Walking the Floor.īelow, we’ve honored our weekly ritual of listing a handful of highlights from the podcast. The podcast covers the full range of Stuart’s career, from his days as a pre-teen picker in Mississippi to the SoCal recording sessions that spawned Way Out West. “I joined my first band at nine years old,” he tells Chris Shiflett during this week’s episode of Walking the Floor. In recent years, he’s become a sort of roots-music cult figure, releasing a string of forward-thinking albums – including this month’s Way Out West – that pack their punches by ignoring trends. He’s landed his own mainstream chart hits. Ever since he landed his first touring gig as a 12 year-old, Marty Stuart has occupied virtually every single corner of the country music world.
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