Stuart’s photographic style: Like his music, it can be described as Southern populist and steeped in Americana. The book also has a section devoted to country music fans, which underlines a point about Mr. Stuart has played with also show up, often in backstage or recording studio settings. King, Loretta Lynn, Bill Monroe, Willie Nelson and other performers Mr. Stuart, who turned 56 on Tuesday, displays a similar reverence for his mentors in “American Ballads.” The book’s opening image is a photograph he took of Johnny Cash, his former next door neighbor, boss and father-in-law, three days before his death, and Ray Charles, Merle Haggard, B. Just the fact that he seemed to inherit pop’s sound, we just love him so much, it felt natural for him to get one of the guitars.” “You know Marty was Pops’ godson and we’ve always called him our lil brother. Staples wrote in an email in which she recalled being overcome with emotion while recording the song in Mr. “He and his band sound so much like the Staple Singers” because “he’s got that sound, that twang,” Ms.
Stuart’s vast collection, a trove that includes handwritten lyrics by Hank Williams, a George Jones guitar and costumes worn by Porter Wagoner, Johnny Cash and Patsy Cline. A selection of 50 of those images is also being exhibited at the Frist Center for the Visual Arts in Nashville, which in the past has also shown artifacts from Mr. Stuart’s photographs of country music stars, their fans and his travels over the years. The records are coming out shortly after the publication of “American Ballads,” a book of Mr.
This week he released a two-disc set, “Saturday Night/Sunday Morning,” dedicated, as its title suggests, to distinct but intertwining strands of country tradition: the profane and the sacred, the honky-tonk and the church. Even at that tender age, he was intent on documenting the genre’s rich history and heritage.
When the country music singer Marty Stuart first went on the road, at 13 with Lester Flatt’s bluegrass band, he took with him not only a mandolin and a guitar, but also a camera.