“Way Out West is really a love letter to California. If you hear it in your head, play it that way because that’s probably the way it’s supposed to be played.” Go to that place where it makes you smile and you feel like somebody. “If you’re a new player, follow your heart.
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The crazy part about it was I got a job in Nashville when I was 13 with Lester Flatt, so I had access to the most incredible players in the world who were very free with their knowledge. The beautiful thing about country music and surf songs of that time was they were basically three-chord structures, so I could figure my way around them. It didn’t have the right feel so I blew that off. “I took some lessons, but I didn’t like what I was being shown. It made me feel special, like I was set apart from the civilians. When I got that little Fender guitar and put it around my neck and sang ‘Branded Man’ or ‘Folsom Prison Blues’, it empowered me. “My first band came at a time when the Beatles, the Stones and Jimi Hendrix were so popular, but it was country music that drove me. I thought girls would like it too, so that was a part of it.” “The first picture of me with a guitar that my mother took it just made it seem like it was supposed to be there. I wanted my band to sound like Luther Perkins or Don Rich. After a couple of shows, I knew I had to get a Fender guitar. I started my first band when I was 9 and had a little Teisco hollow-body guitar. “I cut yards in the summer of 1968 to earn enough money to buy my first Fender, a little Mustang and a Princeton Reverb amp. Here, in his own words, the Telecaster legend discusses Way Out West, collaborating with Campbell and the lessons he’s learned throughout his over four-decade journey in music.
The result is a tribute to the Nashville and Bakersfield ambassador’s past working with legends like Lester Flatt and Johnny Cash and his desire to take country music to the future, all told through the lens of a seasoned musician traversing the mystical desert. Produced by Mike Campbell of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Way Out West prompted Stuart to bring his band, the Fabulous Superlatives (guitarist Kenny Vaughan, drummer Harry Stinson and bassist Chris Scruggs), to the West Coast, where they split time between the famed Capitol Records and Campbell’s vibey M.C. So when he was putting together his latest album, Way Out West (due out March 10), the five-time Grammy Award winner didn’t need to think too hard about the overall topic, as he simply dipped into that Golden State nostalgia. Marty Stuart might have grown up in Mississippi, but he always had a deep affection for all things California.
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