XM Satellite Radio has signed on country music legend Marty Stuart to host a new weekly show, “Marty Stuart’s American Odyssey,” starting on Friday, October 5th.
Each hour-long episode will focus on a different part of the country and bring the musical sounds and stories of that region to life through informal interviews with local musicians, stories, guests and a regular cast of studio and tour musicians. “Marty Stuart’s American Odyssey” will bring together a broad range of American music including traditional country, blues, rockabilly, bluegrass, gospel and rock songs.
Stuart began his career in the country spotlight as a musical prodigy at bright-young age of 13 when he started touring with Lester Flatt, and later joined Johnny Cash’s band before he turned 20. He's played with the likes of Willie Nelson, Emmylou Harris, Bob Dylan, Randy Travis, and Roy Rogers.
Episodes of “Marty Stuart’s American Odyssey,” air Fridays at 8am ET on XM America (ch 10), and will also be available all day every Friday on XMX (ch 2).
Very cool...I remember Lee Abrams writing in his blog about going up to meet with Marty, and that XM had been hoping to do something with him for a while now.
So, I wonder if XMX will move the Quincy Jones programming to Tuesdays and get rid of the "Bill Anderson Visits with the Legends" airings, or if Quincy's various shows will become part of weekend line-ups.
Mr. Stuart, My name is William Simmons and I live in California. A long time ago, the Leo Fender company near my house was throwing away lots of things, and I picked up some of them and have been storing them ever since. When I read in Forbes magazine about you having collected picks from the rubbish cans, I felt that you would understand me and my reason for keeping the items I have. What i have is Leo Fenders various meters and switches that were attached to his workbench. Now I know that this may seem to be somewhat larger than the "Picks" you collected i.e. The things I have are about 6 feet long, non-the-less, I feel that they need to be somewhere like in either your collection in Hendersonville, or maybe in the "Rock and Roll" hall of fame in Cleveland. What do you think? Remember, Leo Fender made the first non-acoustic guitars using these various electronic devices, so maybe it is worth your time to look at the "Rube Goldberg" assemblage, as well as some of the original shelfs that the various guitars sat on when their varnish was drying/
I can be reached at the above Email address (my wife's) or by phone at 1 - 949 - 459 - 5457. I hope this message reaches you, and could you possibly affirm that fact? Thanks, William Simmons.