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Marty Stuart
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Vicky
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Track List
1. Branded Marty Stuart
2. Country Boy Rock & Roll (Feat. Kenny Vaughan) Marty Stuart/Kenny Vaughan
3. Drifting Apart Marty Stuart
4. Bridge Washed Out Marty Stuart
5. A World Without You Marty Stuart
6. Hummingbird Marty Stuart
7. Hangman Marty Stuart and Johnny Cash
8. Ghost Train Four-Oh-Ten Marty Stuart
9. Hard Working man Marty Stuart
10. I Run To You (Feat. Connie Smith) Marty Stuart/Connie Smith
11. Crazy Arms (Feat. Ralph Mooney) Marty Stuart/Ralph Mooney
12. Porter Wagoner's Grave Marty Stuart
13. Little Heartbreaker Marty Stuart
14. Mississippi Railroad Blues Marty Stuart
Description
With Ghost Train (The Studio B Sessions), his 14th studio album, GRAMMY-winner and American music icon Marty Stuart continues to lead the charge in preserving the roots, culture and history of traditional country music.
The album includes such country staples as the male-female duet ("I Run to You," written and sung with Connie Smith), the chugging, bluesy--and spooky-- fellow Mississippian Jimmie Rodgers-like train song "Ghost Train Four-Oh-Ten," steel guitar driven, hardcore heartbreak ballads such as "A World Without You," and "Drifting Apart," and a no-flinching directness is front and center in the premiere of "Hangman". This is a pointed, harrowing tale of an executioner's job and life that Stuart co-wrote with Johnny Cash just four days before the Man in Black passed away.
As the album title denotes, GHOST TRAIN (THE STUDIO B SESSIONS) was recorded in the legendary RCA Studio B in Nashville, where Stuart participated in his first-ever recording session at the age of 13 playing mandolin in Lester Flatt's band.
Review
I came to Marty Stuart through seeing him on the Gaither Homecoming dvds and also on Rural tv where he has his show.
Ghost Train:the Studio B Sessions - to me is a fine example of Country music at its best with a good mix of the slower Country and some more bluesy/rock & roll ones. I particulary liked 'I Run To You' where he duets with his wife Connie Smith, who gives a superb understated harmony on the song. Of course I'm a sucker for the faster songs such as 'Country Boy Rock & Roll' in which he duets with Kenny Vaughan and 'Bridge Washed Out', but it is 'Hangman' the song Marty Stuart wrote with Johnny Cash just before he died that is quite fascinating. Immediately you can hear the darker influence that Cash has had in all his songs, but is made lighter by the fact that it is Marty who is singing it.
'Crazy Arms' I loved because you hear Marty asking Ralph Mooney if he would play it for him, and to hear Ralph's voice adds to the atmosphere of the instrumental.
And in talking about atmosphere, Marty in his blurb on the cd leaflet writes in a very lyrical way about going to the old train depot on August 29 2005, the day of Hurricane Katrinaand the effect this had on him 200 miles away. I felt quite moved by it.
Last but not least this cd is made superb because of the Marty's backing group the Fabulous Superlatives and their quite brilliant musicianship which enhance Marty's writing to the max!
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