Marty Stuart and His Fabulous Superlatives – Way Out West (2017) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Marty Stuart and His Fabulous Superlatives – Way Out West (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 40:03 minutes | 706 MB | Genre: Country
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Five time GRAMMY-winner Marty Stuart will release Way Out West, his 18th studio album, on March 10 on Superlatone. The album was conceived as a love letter by one of Country music’s living legends, whom has played with everyone from Cash to Lester Flatt, to the lonely but magical American West, specifically the promised land of California. “If you go and sit by yourself in the middle of the Mojave Desert at sundown and you’re still the same person the next morning when the sun comes up, I’d be greatly surprised,” says Stuart. “It is that spirit world of the West that enchants me.” Produced by Mike Campbell (Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers), and featuring the Fabulous Superlatives –guitarist Kenny Vaughan, drummer Harry Stinson and new member, bassist Chris Scruggs– Marty’s longtime band, which NPR Music said could “melt your heart with four-part harmonies, rock your bones with honky tonk, and dazzle you with picking worthy of their name,” Way Out West is a cinematic tour-de-force. Listeners can feel the warmth of those desert winds over the album’s 15 tracks, a collection of newly written originals, instrumentals and rare covers. Marty Stuart is a five time GRAMMY-winner, platinum recording artist, Lifetime Achievement Award recipient from the Americana Music Association, Grand Ole Opry star, country music archivist, photographer, musician, and songwriter. Since starting out singing gospel as a child, Stuart has spent over four decades celebrating American roots music. His teenage years on tour with bluegrass legend Lester Flatt in the ’70s were followed by six years in Johnny Cash’s band in the ’80s, and a chart-topping tenure as a solo artist in the ’90s. Stuart hosts a Late Night Jam at The Ryman, a yearly tradition which kicks off the CMA Music Festival, with recent guests including Dolly Parton, Jerry Lee Lewis, Neko Case, Eric Church, Chris Stapleton, Maren Morris, Dan Auerbach and many more.

Ever since forming his backing group the Fabulous Superlatives in 2003, Marty Stuart has specialized in exploring various paths in country music’s past. Way Out West, his 2017 album, continues this tradition by taking them and his crew out west to collaborate with Heartbreaker Mike Campbell in a fevered Fantasia of cowboys, truck drivers, surfers, and other rebels. The brilliant thing about Way Out West is that Stuart doesn’t limit himself to either the pile-driving sounds of Bakersfield or the burnished country & western sounds of Hollywood cowhands. Each of these styles gets its own showcase — “Air Mail Special” rampages like the best of the Buckaroos, “Old Mexico” splits the difference between Johnny Cash and Marty Robbins — but Stuart not only swaps these sounds, he synthesizes them, so Way Out West winds up playing like an idealized version of California country. To that end, he even incorporates the big jangle of the Byrds — “Time Don’t Wait” rings and swirls like prime 1966 psychedelia, a move that shouldn’t come as a surprise with Campbell as the album’s producer — and creates a holy ruckus on “Quicksand,” which plays like Link Wray teaming with a Cosmic American honky tonk band to play a dive in Santa Monica, or “Please Don’t Say Goodbye,” a shimmering desert ballad that hints at the lush soundscapes of Lee Hazlewood. For anybody familiar with the rich traditions of West Coast country and roots music, it’s fun to spot the influences on Way Out West, but this is neither an exercise nor a history listen. Stuart and the Fabulous Superlatives are having an outright blast indulging in their imagined wild west, and the end results are so clever and kinetic, they’re difficult to resist. – Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Tracklist:
01. Marty Stuart and His Fabulous Superlatives – Desert Prayer – Part I (00:48)
02. Marty Stuart and His Fabulous Superlatives – Mojave (02:18)
03. Marty Stuart and His Fabulous Superlatives – Lost On The Desert (02:34)
04. Marty Stuart and His Fabulous Superlatives – Way Out West (05:42)
05. Marty Stuart and His Fabulous Superlatives – El Fantasma Del Toro (02:46)
06. Marty Stuart and His Fabulous Superlatives – Old Mexico (02:46)
07. Marty Stuart and His Fabulous Superlatives – Time Don’t Wait (03:56)
08. Marty Stuart and His Fabulous Superlatives – Quicksand (01:44)
09. Marty Stuart and His Fabulous Superlatives – Air Mail Special (02:17)
10. Marty Stuart and His Fabulous Superlatives – Torpedo (02:17)
11. Marty Stuart and His Fabulous Superlatives – Please Don’t Say Goodbye (02:48)
12. Marty Stuart and His Fabulous Superlatives – Whole Lotta Highway (With A Million Miles to Go) (03:19)
13. Marty Stuart and His Fabulous Superlatives – Desert Prayer – Part II (00:57)
14. Marty Stuart and His Fabulous Superlatives – Wait For The Morning (03:50)
15. Marty Stuart and His Fabulous Superlatives – Way Out West (Reprise) (01:56)

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