Scott: But God didn’t condemn you, did He? You’ll never believe how low I felt, how worthless I felt. I was in the middle of creating Soul’s Chapel. the most embarrassing thing in the world. It didn’t happen once it happened twice - DUI. One of the things I had not surrendered was taking a drink. You were in the middle of making this album and you get busted. Scott: You define Gospel music in the sense of telling the truth it had to be truthful. Marty: I don’t think I was personally ready, first of all, to stand up front and center to make a Gospel record. Scott: All these years that you had this background, you had your roots back in the church, in the Lord and so forth, and now, for the first time you’ve come out with a gospel album. Scott: Even with the fame and everything else? That is to have made a commitment and to know the difference in right and wrong and to be out of the will of God. That’s the most misery any human being can feel on this earth. Like so many other people I was raised right, went crazy but I always knew God had His hand on me. Marty: Well, I was dedicated to God before I was born by Momma and Daddy, and I was raised in a very traditional Southern Baptist home. Scott: You came to a point where you encountered God or God encountered you. Marty: I worked my way from the top to the bottom several times. Scott: You had some highs and then took a nosedive. It gave me a reason to get me a bus and a band and cowboy clothes, and go live out some dreams that I always wanted to live out. Marty: Of my own? Well, it was a song called “Hillbilly Rock”. Scott: What was the first big record for you? Scott (reporting): Marty Stuart has had a half-dozen successful solo albums which are characterized as “hillbilly rock.” He’s had six top 10 hits and received four Grammy awards. I kept that record by my record player and ever now and then just walk by and look at it. We had a record in our house called Miss Smith Goes To Nashville, and she was so pretty. I told Momma I’m going to marry that girl. Miss Connie Smith was the performer that Saturday night, 1971. You said, “I’m going to marry that woman.” It only took another 25, 26 years before it came true. You were with your mother somewhere, and you saw Connie Smith. Scott (reporting): Young Marty Stuart owned at least one other record that had a significant impact on his life as an adult. I asked him to authenticate it and he wrote, “That’s it.” Don’t Take Your Guns To Town Pickin’ Time Five Feet High and Rising I Still Miss Someone… I love that. He showed me one of Johnny Cash’s guitars. Marty later wound up touring with both men. Scott (reporting): One of the first two records Marty Stuart bought as a youngster was by Lester Flatt. It’s important to the culture: recordings, guitars that people played were being bought and going to collectors in Japan. Marty: The town was kind of ashamed of that old rhinestone image, but I saw it as wearable art. Marty: Now you’re wearing Hank Williams’ coat. Today, Stuart owns the largest known private collection of its kind in the United States. He’s become a country music historian, an archivist, and a collector of country music memorabilia. Scott (reporting): Marty Stuart has lived country music history. Marty: Well, the first band was at nine, and I was on the road when I was 12 with the Sullivan Family Gospel Singers. Scott: At what point did you finally go out and start playing professionally? Marty Stuart: I can’t remember when I didn’t have an instrument around. Scott: You picked up an instrument when you were how old?
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