![]() ![]() There was a conversation that came up not long ago about somebody that should be in the Country Music Hall of Fame but is not. I don’t know enough to talk about what you’re talking about. But, man, I have never let that sway my love for him one bit. I’ve had opinions down through the years that I’m sure Travis didn’t agree with and vice versa. When we’re old, fat and ugly, and nobody cares about us, we’re still gonna be brothers.” And that’s how it’s been. I had Ernest Tubb’s bus at the time, and at the end of that shoot we made a deal in the back lounge of the bus. I mean, less than barely knew each other. The day we did “The Whiskey Ain’t Workin’” video we barely knew each other. ![]() I don’t know what to say about that other than I’ll go back to what I’ve always said about Travis. Travis posted on Twitter that he was deleting all Anheuser-Busch products from his tour rider. It started with the company sending Dylan Mulvaney, who is a transgender TikTok creator, a can of Bud Light that featured her image on it. I don’t even know what you’re talking about. What your thoughts are on his controversial choice to boycott Anheuser-Busch products on his tour? You have a long history with Travis Tritt. I don’t even remember what the issue was but I just thought, everybody’s talking and nobody’s saying anything. I was confused one day about something and I heard three or four different experts on my television set telling me their perspective on it. But sometimes I just get a little worn out with it. You can either find somebody to agree with or disagree with. Outside of however many people they have on their Facebook page, it’s like, why don’t you get up and go do something for real? It doesn’t matter what your opinion is. I get such a kick out of armchair activists. There’s a line in the song “Space” that really resonates in these days of rampant social media commentary: “Do you get a little mad when someone you don’t know tells you how you’re supposed to feel?” įlashback: Connie Smith Sings 'Then and Only Then' for Marty Robbins What’s crazy is, it’s sober psychedelia, which even makes it more goofy. There’s a real thread of psychedelia running through the whole album, too, which is something you can’t really escape when the Byrds are one of your inspirations. That followed me back to the bus when I was writing songs for this record. I was just in the presence of these gargantuan songs, just song after song after song that mean so much to so many people. ![]() On top of that, we were doing shows with the Steve Miller Band that year, as well as a bunch of Chris Stapleton shows. On the album, there’s Clarence White’s guitar in the middle of all that. When Chris Hillman plays the bass, I see colors. And it’s interesting that you say that because when Roger plays the Rickenbacker, I see colors. The chief culprit was us going on tour with Roger McGuinn and Chris Hillman, for the 50th anniversary of the Sweetheart of the Rodeo album in 2018. Was there a particular inspiration for it? This album is one of the most colorful you’ve ever done, as if you can almost hear the colors coming from the songs. The eminently quotable Grand Ole Opry member recently sat down with Rolling Stone for a conversation that ranged from psychedelic influences to his wife, fellow Hall of Fame member Connie Smith, to his take on Nineties collaborator Travis Tritt’s controversial response to a Bud Light campaign. A gloriously Technicolor-splattered collection, Altitude continues in the kaleidoscopic vein of the group’s 2017 album Way Out West. Now a member of the Country Music Hall of Fame, Stuart’s efforts to honor country’s traditions while injecting his music with the rock & roll he began playing as a kid served as inspiration on his latest album, Altitude. Stuart would also tour with Johnny Cash and achieve mainstream country success before establishing himself and his longtime band, the Superlatives, as stalwarts of the musically expansive Americana landscape. Forty-nine years ago, a front-page headline in Nashville’s Tennessean proclaimed “Marty’s a Mandolin Pro at 15,” heralding Marty Stuart’s teenaged role in Lester Flatt’s late-period band Nashville Grass. ![]()
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