Marty Stuart has been busy promoting his latest album Saturday Night / Sunday Morning. The album explores the meeting of Saturday night’s country music at the local honky-tonk and Sunday morning’s church service. Stuart has been experimenting with the mixture of styles since he came to Nashville and joined Lester Flatt‘s band at just 13 years old.
“Being endorsed by Lester Flatt as ‘that kid in Lester’s band [who] can actually play’ … His seal of approval … gave me instant credibility,” Stuart tells Rolling Stone Country.
“They cast long shadows, but they all were kind to me, every single one of them. They raised me as a kid coming into the tribe that they saw something in, so they invested in me, and I took that very seriously.”
His most recent stop was on the David Letterman show where he performed his song “Streamline”.
“I’m a streamline lover; nobody touch my speed” is a line from “Streamline,” a bluesy track from the album Saturday Night / Sunday Morning. Although in the context of the song, it extols the virtues of a “backwoods Romeo,” it also works well to describe Stuart’s band and their streamlined sound.
Stuart was joined in the ‘Letterman’ performance by guitarist Kenny Vaughan, drummer Harry Stinson and upright bass player Paul Martin. Check out their performance in the video below:
