Marty Stuart - Pilgrims: Sinners, Saints, and Prophets

MARTY STUART
pilgrims

sinners, saints, and prophets

MARTY STUART

pilgrims

sinners, saints, and prophets

a book of words and photographs

Rutledge Hill Press NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE

Copyright 1999 by Marty Stuart
All rights reserved. Written permission must be secured from
the publisher to use or reproduce any part of this book,
except for brief quotations in critical reviews or articles.

Published by Rutledge Hill Press, Inc., 211 Seventh Avenue
North, Nashville, Tennessee 37219-1823.

Distributed in Australia by The Five Mile Press Pty., Ltd.,
22 Summit Road, Noble Park, Victoria 3174.
Distributed in Canada by H. B. Fenn & Company, Ltd.,
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Distributed in New Zealand by Southern Publishers Group,
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Distributed in the United Kingdom by Verulam Publishing,
Ltd., 152a Park Street Lane, Park Street, St. Albans,
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Cover photos by Marty Stuart
Cover design by Schwalb Creative Communications, Inc.
Text design by Schwalb Creative Communications, Inc.
Production by Robert Clay White, Manuscript Ink, and
Roger A. DeLiso, Rutledge Hill Press
Photographs by Marty Stuart

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data:
Stuart, Marty.
Pilgrims : sinners, saints, and prophets : a book of words and photographs / Marty Stuart.
p. cm.

ISBN 1-55853-773-2

1. Country musiciansUnited States Biography. 2.
Country musiciansUnited States Portraits. I. Title.
ML394.S88 1999
781.642'092'273dc21
[B]

99-38150
CIP

Printed in the United States of America

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 904 03 02 01 00 99

To Momma

Permissions

The Pilgrim (page 15) by Marty Stuart.
Copyright 1999 Warner-Tamerlane
Publishing Corp. (BMI)/Marty Party Music
(BMI). All rights administered by Warner
Tamerlane Publishing Corp. All rights reserved.
Used by permission. Warner Bros. Publications
U.S. Inc., Miami, FL 33014.

Hobos Prayer (page 47) by Marty Stuart.
Copyright 1999 Warner-Tamerlane
Publishing Corp. (BMI)/Marty Party Music
(BMI). All rights administered by Warner
Tamerlane Publishing Corp. All rights
reserved. Used by permission. Warner Bros.
Publications U.S. Inc., Miami, FL 33014.

A. P. Carters signature (page 86) reprinted
with permission of the Carter family.

Woody Guthries quote (page 88) and pictures
of items from his archives (pages 89 and 192)
reprinted courtesy of the Woody Guthrie
Archives.

Be Careful Who You Love (Arthurs Song)
(page 90) by Harlan Howard. Copyright
1984 Sony/ATV Songs LLC. All rights administered
by Sony/ATV Music Publishing, 8 Music
Square West, Nashville, TN 37203. All rights
reserved. Used by permission.

Chiseled in Stone (page 92) by Max D.
Barnes and Vern Gosdin. Copyright 1948,
renewed 1976, Acuff-Rose Music, Inc., and
Hookem Music. International rights secured.
All rights reserved. Used by permission.

Martys Talking Blues to Steve Earle (page 99)
by Marty Stuart. Copyright Warner
Tamerlane Publishing Corp. (BMI)/Marty Party
Music (BMI). All rights administered by
Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp. All rights
reserved. Used by permission. Warner Bros.
Publications U.S. Inc., Miami, FL 33014.

Wealth Wont Save Your Soul (page 102) by
Hank Williams, Sr. Copyright 1948, renewed
1976, Acuff-Rose Music, Inc. International
rights secured. All rights reserved. Used by
permission. Copyright 1948 (renewed)
Hiriam Music (BMI). All rights o/b/o Hiriam
Music, administered by Rightsong Music, Inc.
(BMI). All rights reserved. Used by permission.
Warner Bros. Publications U.S. Inc., Miami, FL 33014.

Martys interview with Leroy Troy (page 107)
reprinted with permission of Leroy Troy.

I Am a Pilgrim (page 127), words and music
by Merle Travis. Copyright 1941, 1969
Universal-Duchess Music Corporation, a
Division of Universal Studios, Inc. Copyright
renewed. International copyright secured.
Used by permission. All rights reserved.

Mississippi Mudcat and Sister Sheryl Crow
(page 163) by Marty Stuart. Copyright 1996 Warner
Tamerlane Publishing Corp.(BMI)/Marty Party
Music (BMI). All rights administered by
Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp. All rights
reserved. Used by permission. Warner Bros. Publications U.S. Inc., Miami, FL 33014.

The Thin Man from West Plains (page 180)
by Marty Stuart. Copyright 1999 Warner
Tamerlane Publishing Corp. (BMI)/Marty Party
Music (BMI). All rights administered by
Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp. All rights
reserved. Used by permission. Warner Bros.
Publications U.S. Inc., Miami, FL 33014.

What Would You Do (If Jesus Came to Your
House) (page 181) by Hugh Ashley and Lois
Blanchard. Copyright 1956. Renewed
1984Budde Songs, Inc. All rights in the
United States and Canada controlled by Bronx
Flash Music, Inc. Used by permission.

T o Alfred Steiglitz for taking the photograph of the airplane, Diane Arbus for showing me the edge, and Edward S. Curtis and Karl Moon for allowing me to breathe the dust of their integrity. Thank you, Milt Hinton, for having the foresight to take a camera along on your jazz journey. Les Leverette for your passion in documenting the family of country music.

Eudora Welty for giving me a glimpse into my heritage and a very different time in Mississippi. Love to you, my friend Ed Clark, you national treasure, you. You proved that you can get as much soul out of a photograph as Hank Williams did a song. Heres to the heartbeat of the Photo Gallery on Royal Street in New Orleans; long may you live. Thank you, Thomas B. Allen, for inspiring me to view music and photographs as paintings.

The Nashville guys, Bill Thorup and Dan Loftin, for the years of friendship in front of and behind the lens. Thank you, Jim McGuire, for putting the twang back into black and white photography. Ron Keith, you are a genius for breaking every rule in the manual of photography. I thank you for the new rules youve innovated for the other hot shots to break.

Anne Brown, thanks for encouraging me to frame my photographs and hang them on a wall, and for giving me the prestige of calling it an exhibit. To John Folsom and the Chromatics Family in Nashville, thank you for bringing the images to life. To Cathy OBryant for your artistry.

Bob Schwalb, thank you for your design of this book. Clay White, your assistance has been invaluable. Willie Wilson, I owe you a new car for all the trips to the warehouse to find negatives. Thanks to Chet Flippo for helping me find Woodys words, and to Nora Guthrie, the Guthrie Family, and the Gene Autry Museum.

To Maria-Elena Orbea (MVP), for taking all my unreadable chicken scratch and translating it into the words of this book, and for bringing order to twenty-five years worth of negatives and contact sheets. Bonnie Garner, thank you for helping me make another dream come true. Thank you, Andy Corn, for taking so much time with me in the early days. I miss you buddy.