There’s a whole lot of future in what’s happening in the world of country music. I went to the governor at the time and said, “Can we have a country music trail?” But I noticed most of the people we were celebrating in the blues category were ghosts - friendly old ghosts that we love - and the thing I love about country music is that it’s not just about the past. When I first got involved in the state, I noticed that the Mississippi Blues Trail markers were so pretty and cool and informative. Beyond you and Jimmie Rodgers, you’ve got artists like Hardy, Randy Houser, and Track 45. Mississippi, and your region in particular, produces some megawatt country music talent. We caught up with Stuart to talk about how his home state continues to inspire him, and his new album, Altitude. “To see Jontavius Willis and the Choctaw dancers, Connie Smith and Ricky Skaggs, and Vince Gill and Bill Gaither bring their music there, I just couldn’t believe what I was watching. “What’s happening there with the Congress of Country Music has given Philadelphia a puff of wind in its sail, and it’s getting on to a new chapter,” he says. Stuart knew his project would create a stir - he likens it to “setting a spaceship down in the middle of nowhere, expecting everybody to understand it” - but after a run of sold-out shows for the Ellis Theater’s opening weekend, he’s enjoying the buzz it created. When it fully opens in 2024, the museum will be the repository of his 20,000-piece country artifact collection, including Nudie suits - the decorative outfits worn during country music’s golden era - plus guitars and ephemera that give insight to how country music was made. The Ellis Theater is the first wing to open from the Congress of Country Music, Stuart’s monument to the genre and proof of his obsession with collecting and preserving its artifacts. He watched the 1969 film Johnny Cash! The Man, His World, His Music in the old movie house, and lived to tell the Man in Black about it after joining his band in 1980.īut today, with decades of success in Nashville to his credit - first as a sideman to bluegrass legend Lester Flatt, then Cash, and finally as a bandleader in his own right - Stuart has reclaimed the 500-seat venue in the name of country music history. To learn more about how and for what purposes Amazon uses personal information (such as Amazon Store order history), please visit our Privacy Notice.When Marty Stuart was growing up in Philadelphia, Mississippi, the Ellis Theater downtown could practically qualify as his second home. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice. Click ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices, or learn more. Third parties use cookies for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalised ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. This includes using first- and third-party cookies, which store or access standard device information such as a unique identifier. If you agree, we’ll also use cookies to complement your shopping experience across the Amazon stores as described in our Cookie Notice. We also use these cookies to understand how customers use our services (for example, by measuring site visits) so we can make improvements. We use cookies and similar tools that are necessary to enable you to make purchases, to enhance your shopping experiences and to provide our services, as detailed in our Cookie Notice.
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