![]() Winter and "Frankenstein" brother Edgar, who grew up in swampy Port Arthur (also hometown to Janis Joplin and UGK), pioneered power-chord arena rock well before Alice Cooper came along.įoil: "Marty, do you remember the first time you came to Houston, Texas?" Johnny Winter, "Highway 61": Bob Dylan never wrote a song called "Highway 59," which is too bad because there's a lot of words that rhyme with 'nine': shine, fine, line, sign, pine, wine. With songs like these in the queue, it'll be worth the wait. It's running until midnight on XM channel 2, but alternating with his hour on Florida, so be patient if the first thing you hear is Gloria Estefan. Today, all day, he just happens to be in Houston. This has freed him up for plenty of Grand Ole Opry appearances and his own XM Radio show, Marty Stuart's American Odyssey, where he and his crew of good-natured bumpkins spend an hour spinning the music of one U.S. Since the turn of the century, Stuart has released some stirring gospel records (2005's Soul's Chapel), but hasn't troubled the charts much 1996's "Honky Tonkin's What I Do Best" was his last hit, edging the country top 25 at No. Stuart wasn't afraid of rock and roll when Nashville took that to mean Jerry Lee Lewis, not Don Henley, and remains a true believer in a town that has almost completely forgotten how to shake, rattle and roll. ![]() He was married to one of the Carter daughters, and was a good pal of their father-in-law, one Johnny Cash. ![]() ![]() 8 in 1990 - but he's got a great pedigree. He only had a couple of real hits - "Hillbilly Rock" and "Little Things" both reached No. Marty Stuart is definitely one of the more interesting also-rans of Travis Tritt-era popular country. ![]()
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