![]() ![]() The guy is nothing less than a country music virtuoso who will surprise a lot of folks on Friday if they’ve never heard –or heard of him–before. A musical prodigy as a child, he hit the road playing guitar for Lester Flatt when he was 13, and a few years after that, played guitar and mandolin for none other than Johnny Cash. In fact, he and Travis Tritt, another 90s superstar who, like Stuart, was among the few who didn’t add a hat to their image back then, teamed up for a massively successful tour called “No Hats” in 1992, a collaborative effort that also produced what will always be one of the best crank-it-the-hell-up country songs of that era (in my humble opinion)īut Stuart is a lot more than just the product of his 1990s success. ![]() Marty had a rockabilly vibe (check that jacket in the video), a great, gravely voice and ginormous hair that made wearing a hat pointless (he once joked he got his hair to stand so tall using two things: a blow dryer and an entire can of “Aqua Net”). Stuart had a string of hits that were played incessantly on country radio, none moreso than probably this one, which, if you click below, I promise will leave you song-suckered for the rest of the day, in the best possible way. Marty Stuart opened his new exhibit, Hillbilly Rock, at Elvis Presley. If you grew listening to 90s music in “real time” then you’ll know: for a few years early in the decade, Marty Stuart was one of the hottest “new” country stars…back when that term, “new”, was first being applied to country music as a branding term. Members of The Wandering Hearts check out the Hillbilly Rock exhibit at Elvis. ![]() Anyone who loves 90s country is going to love Chris Stapleton’s opening act on Friday. ![]()
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