Marty Stuart and Molly Tuttle

Marty Stuart is a huge name in country music and has been since the late 80s. His music is definitely one of those fantastic crossover blends of music, creating a rockabilly, honky tonk and traditional country sound, that appeals to the masses.

He opens with his huge single “Country Boy Rock and Roll” which immediately gets the audience out of their seats and dancing until the end of the performance. Even for the mid tempo track “Tempted” the audience are in full participation mode, upon their feet and dancing. He closes his first set with his song “Arlene” which was a huge hit for him in 1985, and then is coaxed back onstage by chants of his name to perform an encore. “This One’s Gonna Hurt You” is his final song of the evening. It was also a number 7 hit in the country charts in 1992. It’s good to see that he is still doing what he does best, writing fantastic country music, writing records and touring.

Somewhat disappointed. I expected her to do SOME of her older material but none was there. No White Freightliner, no banjo and very little guitar flat picking. I understand she is promoting her own songs, which are good, but I would have liked to have seen and heard some of her great flat picking of her traditional music and her fantastic banjo picking. To me the opening act was more entertaining.