BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN TZID:America/New_York X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/New_York BEGIN:VEVENT UID:3072@mariettaohio.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260717T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260717T220000 DTSTAMP:20260507T184901Z URL:https://mariettaohio.org/events/marty-stuart-his-fabulous-superlatives / SUMMARY:Marty Stuart &\; His Fabulous Superlatives DESCRIPTION:A Country Music Hall of Famer\, five-time Grammy Award-winner\, and AMA Lifetime Achievement honoree\, Stuart knows a thing or two about standing the test of time. Born and raised in Philadelphia\, Mississippi\, he landed his first big gig in Lester Flatts’ band at the tender age of thirteen\, and by twenty-one\, he was working on the road and in the stud io with Johnny Cash. Though Stuart built his early reputation backing up c ountry and bluegrass royalty\, it wasn’t long before Nashville recognize d him as a star in his own right\, and over the course of forty-plus years as a solo artist\, he would go on to release more than twenty major label albums\, scoring platinum sales\, hit singles\, and just about every hono r the industry could bestow along the way.\n\n“If country music had a pr esident\, it would be Marty Stuart\,” famed documentarian Ken Burns once proclaimed. “He is the embodiment of the culture.”\n\nStuart emerged as an unofficial caretaker of the culture\, too\, spending much of his car eer rescuing and collecting country music artifacts from throughout the ge nre’s history. The first piece he picked up? Patsy Cline’s makeup kit\ , which he bought from a junk shop for $75. These days\, Stuart\, who Roll ing Stone calls “one of the world’s foremost country experts and archi vists\,” has roughly 20\,000 pieces in his collection\, including a hand written copy of Hank Williams’ “I Saw The Light” and Johnny Cash’s first black performance suit. While select items have been exhibited ever ywhere from the Rock &\; Roll Hall of Fame to the Louvre\, Stuart is ha rd at work building a dedicated arts and cultural center to preserve and d isplay it all in his hometown of Philadelphia.\n\n“I’m calling it The Congress of Country Music\, and I want it to serve as an inspirational spo t\,” says Stuart\, who’s raised funds for the center with annual late night jams at the Ryman featuring everyone from Emmylou Harris and Sheryl Crow to Tyler Childers and Billy Strings. “I want it to be a touchstone where younger generations can learn about this stuff and figure out who th ey are and embark on their own musical journeys.”\n\nIt’s that last pa rt that particularly excites Stuart\, whose musical journey came full circ le on Altitude. Written primarily on the road\, the collection was inspire d in large part by Stuart’s 2018 tour supporting Byrds co-founders Roger McGuinn and Chris Hillman\, who reunited for the 50th anniversary of thei r seminal Sweetheart Of The Rodeo album.\n\n“I bought my first copy of S weetheart Of The Rodeo for $2.99 at the discount bin in a shopping mall re cord store in Goodlettsville\, Tennessee\, and it became the blueprint for my musical life\,” Stuart recalls. “Revisiting it on the road with Ro ger and Chris put me back under its spell all over again. I was writing so ngs in dressing rooms and soundchecks and on the bus\, and then one day\, I looked up and there was enough to make an album.”\n\nStuart and his ba nd spent much of 2019 breaking in the new material live\, and by 2020\, th ey were raring to get into the studio. COVID\, however\, had other plans. Not wanting to lose any momentum\, Stuart moved the sessions from the temp orarily shuttered Capitol Studios in Hollywood\, CA to East Iris Studios i n Nashville\, TN\, where he and his bandmates were still able to perform l ive on the floor (albeit masked and six feet apart).\n\n“We knew if we d idn’t find a way to make the record in that moment\, we might never reca pture the same circle of fire around the songs we had going for us\,” St uart explains. “If we waited for COVID to pass\, the album might very we ll have passed us by\, too.”\n\nThe electricity in the room is palpable on Altitude\, which opens with the blistering and trippy “Lost Byrd Spac e Train (Scene 1).” Played on Byrds guitarist Clarence White’s origina l B-Bender Telecaster (another prized possession in Stuart’s collection) \, the instrumental track chugs along at a breakneck pace\, flirting with country\, bluegrass\, and even psychedelic rock as it sets the stage for t he wide-ranging sonic journey to come. Stuart keeps the energy high here —the scorching “Country Star” squeezes a lifetime’s worth of absur dist imagery into a three-minute tour-de-force\, while the ecstatic “Tim e To Dance” is a slice of pure honky-tonk joy\, and the rousing “Frien d Of Mine” even offers hints of Link Wray and The Ventures—but he neve r loses sight of the emotional core of the music\, even amidst all of the instrumental fireworks. The ringing 12-string and bittersweet harmonies of “Sitting Alone\,” for instance\, only serve to heighten the song’s sense of distance and isolation\; the hypnotic sitar line on “Space” a mplifies the uneasiness and longing that simmers just beneath the surface\ ; and the spare acoustic delivery of “The Angels Came Down” underscore s the raw vulnerability in Stuart’s deeply autobiographical lyrics.\n\n “‘The Angels Came Down’ is probably the most truthful song on the re cord\,” Stuart reflects. “There have been times in my life when I’ve felt like a lost and wandering soul\, just chasing all the wrong things. Some people lose their lives to that\, but sometimes the angels offer you a hand up out of the darkness.”\n\nIt’s that big picture perspective t hat guides Stuart on the album’s old-school\, shuffling title track\, wh ich takes a bird’s eye view of what really matters most in this life. “To get to go and stay\, must give all your love away\,” Stuart sings over what turned out to be one of the final performances from late piano l egend Pig Robbins.\n\n“I like to say that the most outlaw thing you can possibly do in Nashville right now is play country music\,” Stuart says with a laugh. “This album is a reminder to me\, and to anyone else out t here who’s interested\, that there’s still a few of us left who know h ow to do it. This music is in our hearts.” ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://mariettaohio.org/wp-content/uploads/2026 /05/marty-stuart-band-canva-1080-x-1350-px.png CATEGORIES:Live Music LOCATION:Peoples Bank Theatre\, 222 Putnam St\, Marietta\, Ohio\, 45750\, U nited States GEO:39.415852;-81.453433 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=222 Putnam St\, Marietta\, Ohio\, 45750\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Peoples Bank Theat re:geo:39.415852,-81.453433 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York X-LIC-LOCATION:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20260308T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR