"The roots of country music were being ignored and disregarded, and it was slipping away. It seemed to me that the right thing to do was to play it."
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Marty Stuart, in an interview with the Seattle Post-Intelligiencer.
Stuart will play it at Lincoln Center Out of Doors on August 13 as a part of the Roots of American Music Festival. Also performing that evening: bluegrass stars Dailey & Vincent and a Sun Records alumni revue including Sonny Burgess & the Pacers, Cowboy Jack Clement, Rudy “Tutti” Grayzell and Hayden Thompson. And that afternoon, Ebony hillbillies, Abigail Washburn, Sid Selvidge & Sons of Mudboy, and a an oral histories panel with teh Sun Records alums, hosted by Spike Barkin.
(via lincolncenter)
(Source: seattlepi.com, via lincolncenter)
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