I knew Marty started young, but to be playing with Lester Flatt at 14 is just insane. Marty is still making great music and every time I see him I appreciate that he is a link to some of the true legends of country music.
I saw Marty play the mandolin and sing not long ago and he could still bring a crowd to their feet. He is one of the most skilled and talented country music artists of all time. And a finer man you will never meet.
I had no idea Marty Stewart could throw down at this young age . My gosh no wonder he is so wonderful 😍 I knew Marty was extremely talented but my goodness not at this age ..Wonderful Marty I have always loved you and you are just know words to describe how great you really are . To throw down that great at 14 I just can't get over how amazing Marty really is .♥️♥️
Marty is an absolute legend, look at him adjusting the mic for his fiddler, nobody on earth knows how to play a stringed instrument like Marty, hats off to a legendary career.
I worked in downtown Nashville for many years. One day on my lunch break, I walked into a flower shop to buy some roses, and there was Marty Stuart doing the same thing. He was so handsome! I just stopped and gawked at him. He just smiled. 😊
Lester Flatt is one of the all-time greatest singers from any genre of music. Nobody but nobody could sing a story like Lester. He could have the entire audience hanging on his every word! Incredible!
I was extremely proud to have had Charlie Nixon and his lovely wife stay in my motel in the north Georgia mountains a few years ago. My mother had a Dobro that she played as a young girl. I ask Charlie if he would play it for us, and he gladly spend 3 hours in our living room, playing some of the best sounds I had ever heard, what a treasure trove of memories. I hope he is still around today, and wish I could here him play once more. Thanks for those treasured hours.
I was friends with Porter and he helped me on one of my songs I had written. I also knew Marty . Marty called the funeral home is Soddy Daisy Tn when my Dad passed away in 2012. Marty married Connie Smith. She was country music's best female singer and still is.
Absolutely great footage. Marty was a real pro at 14 that's just incredible. One thing is absolute, nobody and I mean nobody has ever looked cooler in a cowboy hat than Lester Flatt did.
He was destined for greatness! Him and Kenny fit like a glove! Man that Lettermen show performance a few years back, they knocked a hole in the roof that night! Next Level stuff!
How the years have flown by. Earlier this evening I was watching Marty sing Paradise with John Prine a year or so back. All grey now but still a good picker.
Oh my goodness, Marty was adorable and talented at such a young age!! I've loved him since the 90s and only knew a small bit of his history, what a great video!!
I saw Lester and the boys in concert at Morehead State University in Kentucky way back in 1973. Marty had recently joined the group. Bluegrass music was big on college campuses then. Great show!!
Marty joined Lester's group at the invitational of Roland White (brother of guitarist Clarence White). Roland was Lester's mandolin player and Marty took over full-time after Roland left to work with Clarence. That's how Marty got to know Clarence and how he was able to purchase that famous B-bender. It was Clarence's widow who sold it for $1,600 (along with some other items). Marty was willing to pay whatever (even if he had to go to his mother, who worked at a bank, to get a loan), but Clarence's widow said that she knew Marty would respect and care for the guitar, and considering Marty still uses it today, she was spot on.
Wow cool vid. now I know where he came from and how he really shined. If I dug a little further I would learn a lot more of this star player. Thanks for the history lesson
It says a lot about Marty's talent that he was a mere lad, so young he sounds like a little boy, so pretty he could have passed for a girl (but for the silly haircut), but these seasoned pros invited him to play with their band, and he kept right up with them. He was remarkable even then. And he just kept on evolving into an even greater musician. Love his later songwriting, too.
Marty even had the "hair" as a kid. Without a doubt incredibly talented, who would have known at the time that he would have went on to become a Country Music super star.
Used to just see Marty talking about other country stars in whatever documentary, didn't realise he was a hot shot musician also a right good guy to boot.
I can remember being a boy in the 70s in Gordon Alabama...about 20 miles south of Dothan Alabama. These old shows bring back so many great memories of my grandparents home. My grandma would have us all over...my uncles, aunts, cousins, & family neighbors...Grandma would always have a big Southern Alabama country supper cooked on a Saturday night & we would sit around her big dining table & eat...then everyone would go to the livingroom & watch Hee-Haw & the show that came on before Hee-Haw which if I remember correctly was The Porter Wagoner Show. Then everyone would eat a dessert homemade cake or pie my WONDERFUL GRANDMOTHER would bake. FOLKS...THESE ARE REAL MEMORIES OF REAL PEOPLE WHO HELPED SHAPE MY LIFE FOR THE BETTER!!! I can remember my great grandmother used to say all the time "the older you get the more you go back"...I never really understood what she meant then...BUT NOW THAT I'M 50 YRS OLD, I SURE UNDERSTAND WHAT SHE MEANT NOW!!! I LOVE THESE MEMORIES OF MY FAMILY...I BELIEVE IF WE DID THIS MORE...THINGS IN THIS OLD WORLD BE SO MUCH BETTER!!! Much love from Mobile Alabama.
Fiddler Paul Warren was a wonderful team player - solid fiddling, back-up, breaks,kick-offs and tags, . One of the stronger stylists who set some high standards for the bluegrass fiddlers of the world.
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They're playing an arrangement of "Dueling Banjos" famed from the movie "Deliverence" and usually played as a guitar/banjo duet, but Lester didn't quite have the chops to pull it off (though he was the standard for rhythm guitar). Plus Lester was generous to "showcase" the other members of the band.
'Dueling Banjos" originally written in the 1950s as "Feuding Banjos" by Charlotte, NC based musician, songwriter and local tv star Arthur "Guitar Boogie" Smith.
My lord, Marty Stuart's life. If you don't know (like I didn't know) find Ken Burn's new documentary of country music. Marty Stuart is a giant, who had three goals in life and achieved them all.
Thank goodness that Marty's parents were willing to let him go off at such a young age to work with Lester Flats. Many parents would have said "NO way...Marty has school tomorrow!" They did a great & considerate thing for country music when they allowed Marty to play his music. And you were correct...amazing documentary by Ken Burns
@@lendrury2771.... and how long have you been playing, and what singers and/or bands of any notoriety have You played with? You speak of Marty "in the present tense" as in....... "this kid sucks on guitar", this video was produced in 1972 on Hee Haws 5th season finale. Marty, then 14... will be 61 years old Tomorrow as a matter of fact, Sept.30th 2019.
2Stroke Diesel Power I've been playing since 1973 with bands all over the east coast and basically I was just having a little fun with Marty lol hes a long time talented performer and a country legend. As for me I played with George benson and Michael Bolton and nee edition years ago Also worked with jazz saxophonist marion meadows and vicki sue Robinson the original vocalist of the classic dance hit turn the beat around Also played with daddy and the sax maniacs who performed at bill Clinton's second inauguration But in reality I was just having a little bit of fun with the great Marty stuart
I saw this band when I was little-it was probably a few years after this, Marty looked the same but Lester was sick and going downhill. He sat in a chair for the whole show and backstage he had no energy and just slouched in a corner and spoke with people as best he could. He couldnt take deep breaths it looked like but was still trying to smoke😢
