#Marty stuart band tv#

Marty Stuart didn’t have far to search for the black music that informs his entire approach to country music it was all around him from Day One.

This white three-year old born-to-be a country singer thus grew up in the epicenter of African-American culture-both secular and religious, and in the crucible of white segregationist resistance to the struggle for black equality. It was a wild rollercoaster ride Jill and I were thrilled by and won’t soon forget.Ī bit of background: Marty Stuart was born in 1958 in Philadelphia, Mississippi-three years before the Freedom Rides came to Mississippi, and just six years before it became the most notorious town in America, site of the murder of three civil rights workers, Mickey Schwerner, James Chaney and Andrew Goodman who had gone to work for voting rights during Mississippi Freedom Summer in 1964, and next door to the related black church burning in Neshoba County, all orchestrated by the local Sheriff and Ku Klux Klan. And then I stepped into a time machine-Smothers Theatre at Pepperdine University-and got dragged kicking and screaming back into the mid-20th Century. I thought it no longer existed, except in my dusty LP record collection.

#Marty stuart band tv#

I had a near-death experience last night in Malibu, ninety minutes in Heaven that made me a believer-in Marty Stuart’s recreation of the traditional country music I grew up on-and have long since stopped hearing on any radio station or TV show claiming to broadcast country music today.

He was a child prodigy on both guitar and mandolin and at thirteen became their lead mandolin player. When he was thirteen years old Marty Stuart ran away to join the circus-the Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs bluegrass band. Marty Stuart and His Fabulous SuperlativesĪt Pepperdine University in Malibu: Thursday, September 17, 2015