![]() ![]() The bluegrass standard High on a Mountain Top is rocked to its roots by Stuart's mandolin playing and Pam Tillis' harmonies.īesides being helped by Tillis, Stuart trades vocals with his "No Hats" tour partner Travis Tritt on the title cut, and with mentor Cash on Doin' My Time, a prison song set to a Bo Diddley beat. ![]() Powered by distorted guitars, the song avoids sentimentality and is worthy of Dave Alvin's Long White Cadillac as a Williams tribute. Marty Stuart - High on a Mountain Top (Letra y cancin para escuchar) - As I look at the valleys down below / They are green just as far as I can see / As. The King of Dixie, the album's best song _ Stuart wrote or co-wrote seven of the 10 _ honors both Elvis (Born to Be a Light in the Dark) and Williams (There Ain't a Heart in Heaven Going to Cheat on Him Tonight). In the hands of a lesser singer, those lyrics might carry no more emotional weight than a bumper sticker. Likewise for Now, That's Country, in which he sings (and alternately speaks) lyrics such as "I was raised a country child / Baby, that's my style" and is as convincing as a courtroom oath. Verse 2 Oh I wonder if you ever think of me Or if time has blotted out your memory As I listen to the breeze, whisper gently through the trees I'll always cherish what you meant to me Chorus. ![]() This One's Goin' Hurt You, then, is Stuart's crash course in the music's history and lore.ĭown Home, for example, is furnished with familiar totems: shotgun shacks, sugar mamas and Cadillacs, but Stuart's hard-edged rockabilly transforms familiarity into authenticity. "I hear some authentic country music on the radio today," Stuart said, "but most of it is glossed-over pop." Stuart told the New York Times recently that he respects the talent of Garth Brooks, but isn't sure Brooks is all that country. ![]()
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