A Word on Words; 3804; Marty Stuart

fb liz from nashville studio way celebrating offers literature ideas for more than three decades this is word on words ellen johnson engel welcome the word on words i guess today is marty stuart money began performing as a musician at the age of twelve and he hasn't been off the state says the game a member of the grand ole opry in nineteen ninety three he's a storyteller he's a leading curator of

roots music memorabilia and photographer and founders you know the martha stewart show cables or the tv featuring traditional country music not surprising he's here today to talk about the masters it's a loving and but when a dowry of artists photograph marty welcome my friend gayle are not solve because and i totally wore the clothes get out that we as you know gary smith would say you're the man nods something you or whether the eu is great and you talk about this book on this book the masters and it has the picture john cage on the cover and i have to ask you why you took that picture too really cover this book of mischief we are next door neighbors common element toward john and june in hendersonville and i would go over and talk to him every chance i got and the last days

and we have coffee talk about live talk about songs john carter was really involving keeping his dad engaged singing songs of the market from the microphone was kind of his place to do it is to get a lot of things out and i was over there about the washington had a camera with me and we wrote a song together for days before that that was taken for it before it passed away and the way the light was coming in on his shoulders eleven all presidents agreed all statements are there this light and rejection and eleven seconds four over and i really dig yourself when you know you open this book was a lovely essay that is for poetry and follow most part is poetic and it's all very abbreviated story of how you came into it then who influenced chew on and then and then conferees photographs that really track the history of country music in and the masters

on that first night he came to town you had been performing already at the age of twelve nine year and what the ninth grade and you know meet a friend here who doesn't show up then you wandering from the greyhound bus station corporal suddenly narrative to thirty in the morning pro life aboard a plane with lester flatt and then i was going to be in years to his and roland was run a little late you've got involved and play music somewhere an hour that never felt so alone and my wife standing in the middle in nashville or tutoring thirteen years old had a suitcase and a manly rather will mail at the wrong place or step out on the opposite side of the greyhound terminal which debt towns across from the rhyme and there was a car i came face to face with the rhyme and i knew all about that bill because i knew that bill monroe had put bluegrass music together i remember when as a client hoax

opens in cowboy copas and randy hughes were killed in a plane accident way down in mississippi settlement her mother's lap are us all up i listened to the opening prayer that night in amman a moment of silence that you hear people saw them four miles away i felt like i was a part of that than enough about girls' apartment building and i couldn't wait to get in does sea that had no idea of the comforts business and this guy who don't meet you are you're wandering around town and have a madam and then suddenly he finds you they found a relevant role for and how did you come to know one point i belong the circuit as you said the previous summer down in the south playing with the sullivan family gospel singers and the solvency of big church pentecostal church app stores and we played camp meeting revivals bluegrass festivals and george wallace rallies and so i met roland when he was with lester flatt no one of the russians and he finally shows up and he sawed television all along

might be something you could do with lester flatt he invited me and we were on the bus and lester heard us display and mandolin guitar going to delaware that date not less dirt was out of bill monroe which group is a bright and the forties he hurls gross or both a member of bill monroe's band the forties and they left monroe and started the foggy mountain boys in nineteen forty a mano is a master classes allowing of course there is that was an afternoon that tony connelly that the building was a generation ago at his home and the photograph and not long before he passed away i think it was actually the last photo sessions tomorrow granted and i want to get a picture of his limousine their front of his log cabin but it would start and he had hay bales in the back of it but i notice there were you would go in the yard the chickens would fall into what he plays mandolin they all

played it is the acid letson got sick and realize their plans he started playing chicken reel and the chicken started dancing and clerk and no one's for local and above the right will appear and i thought that was a pretty good pretty good afternoon and flat comes out of that role and introduces you to to leicester by this sound in earl scruggs have pardoned brought on it's amazing to me you must have known some to keep him basically but his arm around you and says come with me and what was it what would the chemistry that the audience loved his music the first two albums that are wrong with my wife was flat screens graces and the fabulous johnny cash so the only two jobs of iran white privilege of what johnnie but lester i was twelve miles from gori parkers bros to interstate forty

and of course the twelve miles and we had never known each other i told them my favorite things to record with bill monroe muffler restrains he's not the favorite guitar that he played how much it meant to us when the foggy mountain boys have come more owner and a racially charged mississippi in nineteen sixty four it was like oh a letter from home and see those guys to lift away to twenty year old split up it was like a man with a friendly have been lost and he looked at me and i was thirteen years away the asset he said or you've had mississippi's it was there were bodies at their edge really reciting is the lead buyer of the forum and at and i know that late in his life so he was ill and we knew that in that long and you've broken now the city early and they were actually a lawyer happen at super was in the lester is in the hospital and bob dylan came down to see bobby said

western world hang out anymore together said they don't speak in boston that the same allen castillo were always going to get that given that never quite happened that day norrell at the time and how it took a fall of bob's concert and what to if they form of corporal isaac along the seine to talk the best of the best at case questions about to pass without pain and i said anything i can do to help arrange you feel like corn seed pearls and authentic about how that anybody know an unannounced for a one set of laughter and a farewell well you know we might get stung and that's a lovely story in his thoughtful of you right he put it on you at the beginning and you put your arm around him at the very end and with a beautiful it was a beautiful reconciliation lets us let's just take random looks so at the photographs that you've taken on other issues the undisputed queen of

women i saw great us are doing great thing one night when we were young stars coming up in the nineties and there was there was a television show been filmed in nashville then all there was two young ladies that most pop stars at the time came in wearing the same dress and it was a major problem backstage between their camps and in the middle on the bickering that was going on the queen of caution as it walked in carrying her own well without bodine gales a car stories of the endangered is that i worked about that really struck me that the queen of country music carries her well actually you know i mean you're talking about the about lester flatt among the goal and that first line to open up in a ranting woman you've said that when you when you enter the ryman were last there is like going to the vatican with the pope absolutely well that's a photograph of the same great tragedy aren't said one time that

that's that incident that you're speaking of the financial truly lost its innocence the music in his uniform systems that string bean are still a windmill blocks are loads string bean he and lester flatt formed book by don white and a stranger a lot worse because he didn't drive at leicester were bodies all the way back to their bill monroe band member days so stray wasn't a big star video show at that time so he was pretty hard on the college circuit and all the sudden now he was taken away from his violently and i could never bring myself to go back out to the place since nineteen seventy four demos that when those murders occurred until i did this book and it was a piece of me i had to go and see about it what would absolutely stopped and my clock was that time had stood still at their core are still parked in the same place the house hadn't changed the trees are just said and done the landfill where you don't really usually talk about

his wife i guess i give him inside if you use refrigeration says now deserve what everybody worry about straining the family of the grand ole opry in the filing country they worried about him because he was proud of his business found fame in that role money that he carried in the as a world was it was it was a gag but at the same time you know he was humiliated go move to form an ad called dancing and then we have the photograph the world the whole i'm glad that both can tell that was the first major tour bus and this town that was really decked out and and fed has the artist seven the texture would those two word three hundred and some odd days a year and that really was a homely home

country music in my house in mississippi was in black and i enjoyed was in poorer and all the stars are national in black and white but the first time that i was so caution is in living color that was pulled up to the shelby county for them for that he was sick and these guys go out wearing cowboy suits or beautiful they sparkled rhinestones and when aristide stepped out where his ten gallon stetson cowboy suit he live thirty feet of the area where anywhere to be part it at where he was i as did so well as some people who remember the roi ran for governor but he sure did you as a republican delivered on the butt he was became money without question what was the story at that particular time and now that i'm far from i can remember there was a famous saying that one the japanese were bombed pearl harbor the phrase was it came back to america

to hell of babe ruth into hell of war ii yes that's exactly right and endowed and tokyo rose broadcast that to the troops shelled a roof <unk> forget sometimes whether international star in wake of was he was huge a lot of power a lot of people love the new roy koval cross planet earth than as a lot of hillbillies do we sometimes think that our car sales and our popularity might transfer over into the political arena and i think he tried to rent he did they not only did not winnowing and when ann and i don't think he really expected to at that time the sea was a one party state and you couldn't get elected to statewide office says a as republican and too few willing to try and roy said you know some of them be done to drug makers of two published that literally ran as a republican and and reliable race last month it expected to do the thing he ran for a call from the pioneer is absolutely well

adelson leicester hello from wells into the stills has still mccain and governor does or that was photographed wasn't there this is not the queen but she sure the prince's events and certain things in america i felt the same way about those shoes i was at the smithsonian once and came around the corner and there was dorothy's shoes from the wizard of oz yes and it really test of plays down the concern the same effect that muddy waters guitar and only at the rock n roll hall of fame in cleveland the same effect then when i saw those artifacts that really is beyond country music and tennessee that really is a part of america's vocabulary know and it's impossible for a boy who knows anything about entertainment in this country to turn the page see those two photographs those two are for me is

that many shoes and not say without saying that got me deeper and hot mobile app for those who just joined us on top and marty stuart about his book country music the masters award book a master's and that again is the cover but once you get inside that cover we've seen some of the analysis of all they hear there is a fellow as paula wagner dressed in a world of beautiful outfits that were his trademark you took that that you're going down a word that picture that's in his basement and we were on our way to take photographs for the book but as he was going down the hallway i had to stop and try to grab that shot with a super and oh it's a beautiful shot and you know what it reminds me

and maybe i'm wrong about the exact history but he walked away from dolly parton am i wrong to write about this one was set up you know that i don't think i remember you know i remember i remember when my wife nor of years ago as they were splitting we went with jack's that to the ryman for a preview rehearsal of the sealy awards and they were together and singing and jackson and analysts pledging gosh what's going on the port ali and jack was a visionary but not all well it's a law that one the accomplishments that had to be a part of that and so proud of an expert is a record on porter uses last project and the kids found the white stripes he opened for the white stripes and madison square garden

this mighty rock n roll band and they were cheering screaming from poorer the kids were sitting in the green green grass on but the thing i could say at the end of the day there was a bond between him and deli that time will never break and he loved her and i have to believe that there's a piece of her that truly loved him because they were but true there were apartments and when you think you came where she came from you know he had his own life was a prince a country music fan and she sort of fell into his life and then won't you would imagine jack step we're in the middle of manhattan go into madison square garden and innovation reporter was like a kid is looking around in this and all the people and i said does it from a jew west plains missouri city all sailed up oh yeah and there's charlie darwin the mississippi brother

true greatness in settlement late great country music where it's uncharted four is a great state is indeed and the next picture mr orr well had been sober for six months with jesse thermal party their way all where barron that when he was caught with a party robert duvall did a skit at the end of the day when we can expect a lot of game whalen tall then you know once my wife and i had dinner with several people into the two that were there and that when we were driving only card she do it so this but she said i don't know the song written but i haven't gotten their son willie look unlike jesus and there's a way to look and light rail it looked at night that's a great without your job that line that i

will you would agree are great together in their great singles are you a commission that's right on and there there was on there is the most beautiful of the more i though the agency radioed filibuster city five thousand watts of pure pleasure the big announcement wasn't ms connie smith has come into the choctaw indian fair in july of nineteen seventy that was big for us because she was my mom's favorite singer writer elmer smith goes to nashville and i had my mom take me to buy your shirt says she knows we saw there are very often in the sister or picture made were then she didn't notice me but on the way out of the stadium last month a bar you can go out back and the cons because the first pitcher to that while a great well a good lunch and iran and campo some of thousands out to viewers aged and now for the freedom for mama came to counties home from lunch one day with a husband in there with marty stuart nicholas smith of great moment

to learn both remember her annual great affection for issues where russell for the maritime law well thank you and there is there's a voice well various mr jones and i was very proud of their own when the president put the arts medal around his neck webster erin duffy deserved it because he truly the sayings from the very depths of his soul and this time what is it about a voice like that that has that makes it going to mean is distinctive there are musicians and vocalists and you can identify some new guests in evan state that voice it's a once in a lifetime voice that god brought to her gave to him

but other thing eleanor what the voice they come straight from the heart and there is a difference and renowned poet a lover man i was tired on my dearest friends and that's in writing a song in california one night and once again abraham lincoln center right now something on his apartment and that he is of that era he is of that debt you know we hear the news again sometimes we love it began telling them vocalists is the voice belongs to somebody for the words and the music the long term to him true one of our favorite photographers and the american landscape was most at risk are slim who photographed the tail end of the nineteenth century native americans the last of the real long hours and early part of the twentieth century and i saw a kindred spirit in him the first time we're sort of work because these people we've talked about today to me also look like a vanishing race of my

whole family bed one by one as johnny cash is left hers porter has left guzman <unk> rover's left arm and where these photographs around their one fan the best a family snapshots in but it is a vanishing race and of the wonderful people will assume there's news there's occasional is power one thousand his band they secure the camera on stage with them and i'd stop all in one scene the right moment and that truly was johnny cash and the phrase in the middle of you know marty had such trial such trouble once i was on an airplane engine worsening laramie and he came back and send an a manuscript would you read this wasn't sure john and i read it and i critics didn't sign in my dog out of that turned out to be a man and why and his is both about the apostle

end of it the senate come from god that took two years before it came out that they're in the introduction he recited that incident on a plane and thank me for those in the lineup on it was also the minute couple sure i just join their brand on a winter blend into a nervous and then retire and the movement was somewhere then there was nothing to do so for them to be john ging on the side of the road and that was just an actual that's the way i look at davis's mantra would've been happy yes so happy they were and she was she was such a strength don't seem like that's what we all know it would have gotten on the head really struggling from town to town with medication and then she made her she made a great difference

won't all areas and we're back where we began and tommy marty and we're all a master's going on the other books automated as clarity in the budgets and geographies ten deadline sometimes have a way of speaking and had a loud voice at the end of it all but there's always of the masters and on now look george jones a great song cause clinical issue that's a big question one of the issues on the field we're looking at my generation peers and i see the likes of well ricky skaggs nelson crossed vince gill patty loveless and friendship and dwight yoakam and a lot of people on forget about the top of my head but we were truly inspired by those people i think back to the day lester flatt harvey he saw something in me that are probably had no idea it was in most of the sauce open but at the end of the day the

most is that i take from that was he passed it on to me and i'm always looking for the next kid to pass it on to it's a wonderful thing to have traditional question is in the heart of pass along that next reinhardt well it's a beautiful book a beautiful story about a truly great industry we've run out of time my friend alice think of coming glad we thank all of you for watching this for word on words and dancing in our keep breathing keep breathing i know