Marty Stuart January 9, 2008

Marty Stuart is country music's renaissance man. He has scored six top-ten hits, one platinum and five gold albums and four Grammy Awards. But his success proves the difficulty of gauging a career in charts alone. He has made lasting music as a front man and in collaboration with virtually every major roots music figure of his era, from Lester Flatt to Bob Dylan. He has evangelized for country music around the world, eulogized the departed legends of the field and identified and encouraged talents of the future. Stuart has produced records for some of the most distinguished artists working today and many famous names have chosen to record his songs. Stuart's energetic enthusiasm has gone outside music, yielding impressive work as a photographer, writer, collector and arts executive.