Growing up in Philadelphia, Mississippi, Stuart was taken by the mystique of the Golden State: the culture, the movies, and especially the music. Specifically, the promised land of California. “It is that spirit world of the West that enchants me.” “If you go and sit by yourself in the middle of the Mojave Desert at sundown and you’re still the same person the next morning when the sun comes up, I’d be greatly surprised,” says Stuart. Produced by Mike Campbell (of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers), the album is a cinematic tour-de-force, an exhilarating musical journey through the California desert that solidifies Stuart as a truly visionary artist. Way Out West, his 18th studio album, hits both of those marks. Carter and an assortment of Cash’s black boots among his vast collection of memorabilia.īut most importantly, Stuart continues to record and release keenly relevant music, records that honor country’s rich legacy while advancing it into the future. ![]() ![]() The Grammy ® -winning singer, songwriter, and musician has played alongside the masters, from Johnny Cash to Lester Flatt, who discovered him been a worldwide ambassador for Nashville, Bakersfield, and points in between and safeguarded country’s most valuable traditions and physical artifacts-including its literal shoes: Stuart counts the brogan of Carter Family patriarch A.P. While he’s too gracious to admit it himself, Marty Stuart is living, breathing country-music history.
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