Marty Stuart to Release “Saturday Night & Sunday Morning”
What’s better than a new album from Marty Stuart? Try two new albums from Marty Stuart released at the same damn time, and that’s just what will transpire when the scarved one doles out the double album Saturday Night & Sunday Morning on September 30th, backed by “Cousin” Kenny Vaughan,” “Apostle” Paul Martin, and “Handsome” Harry Stinson, otherwise known as The Fabulous Superlatives.
As the name implies, the Saturday Night & Sunday Morning project will delve into the duality of country music as both fulfilling the fun of the working class when it’s time to cut loose on the weekends, and when one finds themselves looking for forgiveness and redemption the next day. The first album, subtitled Rough Around The Edges is pretty self-explanatory, while the second disc subtitled Cathedral is also being touted as a sequel to Stuart’s critically-acclaimed 2008 release, Soul’s Chapel. The second album is said to also include a collaboration with The Staple Singers on the song “Uncloudy Day”.
Marty Stuart, Saving Country Music’s 2012 Artist of the Year, has stayed very busy since releasing his last studio album Nashville Volume 1: Tear The Woodpile Down. Along with spitting out one super episode after another of his revered The Marty Stuart Show on RFD-TV and playing shows across the country, Marty recently compiled a collection of his still shot photography taken over the years to form a new exhibit at Nashville’s Frist Center in downtown. From one of the last living shots of Johnny Cash, to Bill Monroe and Unknown Hinson, the collection offers an intimate look at country music through Marty’s eyes.
Listen to the new Marty Stuart song “Rough Around The Edges”.
Saturday Night & Sunday Morning Tracklist:
Saturday Night – Rough Around The Edges
1. Jailhouse
2. I’m Blue, I’m Lonesome
3. Geraldine
4. Rough Around The Edges
5. When It Comes To Loving You
6. Sad House Big Party
7. Talkin’ To The Wall
8. Lifes Ups And Downs
9. Look At That Girl
10. Old, Old House
11. Streamline
Sunday Morning – Cathedral
1. Uncloudy Day (featuring The Staple Singers)
2. Boogie Woogie
3. Long Walk To Heaven
4. That Gospel Music
5. The Gospel Way
6. Mercy Number 1
7. Firing Line
8. God Will Make A Way
9. Good News
10. Angels Rock Me To Sleep
11. Cathedral
12. Heaven
Klancy
May 24, 2014 @ 9:11 am
Best news I’ve heard all day
Don
May 24, 2014 @ 10:36 am
Will add this to the list. I have really been enjoying The Marty Stuart show on RFD, lots of fun to watch and great music.
emfrank
May 24, 2014 @ 11:33 am
Perfect artist to do an dual album like this. I look forward to this! The title made me hope he might put the old David Olney song “Saturday Night and Sunday Morning” on the album… though I am not really sure it fits Marty, the song deserves more exposure. Steve Earle used to cover it live.
Wow
May 24, 2014 @ 1:28 pm
How original. The coolest thing MaRTY ever did was run over cars while drunk at McDonalds. He sux.
Brett
May 24, 2014 @ 5:18 pm
This release couldn’t get here soon enough! Huge Marty fan and I couldn’t name you one bad album of his. This idea reminds me of Jamey Johnson’s “Guitar Song” and we all know how good it was.
Noah Eaton
May 24, 2014 @ 6:56 pm
Although I’m sure Marty Stuart will inspire a jaw-droppingly compelling effort with this, it would be remiss of me not to point out that this title (and duality) has been referenced before.
Counting Crows actually had an album released in 2009 titled “Saturday Nights and Sunday Mornings” that explored the exact same concept. Ralph Stanley of the Stanley Brothers beat the Counting Crows to use of the title by fourteen years by releasing an album of his own. And though I can’t think of who it was off the top of my head, I’m sure someone else beat Stanley to it too.
Anyway, that’s all much ado about nothing, really. There are some concepts that are just popular motifs across all music, and artists can always interpret them in their own compelling ways. I’m sure Stuart will deliver in spades.
Matt
May 24, 2014 @ 10:09 pm
I was thinking the same exact thing, Noah. While new music from Marty Stuart is NEVER a bad thing, the first thing I thought of was the Counting Crows album, which I absolutely love.
Matt
May 24, 2014 @ 10:11 pm
Although, like you said, it’s a popular motif, and CC were hardly the first…it was just the first thing I thought of. I will look forward to this double album.
Noah Eaton
May 25, 2014 @ 1:33 am
I liked the Counting Crows album more than the critical consensus suggested, but I do concede a few tracks didn’t work as well as all others around it and Duritz’s vocals sounded weaker on one too many tracks than usual.
To my ears, the clear standouts were “Cowboys”, “Washington Square”, “When I Dream Of Michelangelo” and “Insignificant”. (I absolutely loved live renditions of “Hanging Tree” before the album was released, but I felt Duritz underwhelmed vocally in the studio version somehow. It couldn’t help but sound like a vocal outtake performance.)
In fact, “Cowboys” and “Washington Square” are among the most impressive one-two punch couplets of any album I’ve heard in all recent memory. “Cowboys” is frightening to listen to with the way Duritz so eerily interprets a tragic figure who is disintegrating into thoughts of murder after a break-up, and the multiple guitar solos that have somewhat of a metallic scream to them………….only to segue right into the heartbreaking ballad of moving on in “Washington Square”. For whatever reason, Duritz really nails it vocally on those two tracks in a way he tends to fall short on too many other tracks aside from “When I Dream of Michelangelo” and “Come Around” most notably.
Lyrically, it is a mostly solid album that mostly achieved what it set out to do, but I also felt there were several weak individual cuts that the album would have done better without that stuck out like sore thumbs. “Los Angeles” was the most blatant example. (The closing lyric was especially embarrassing about where one can go to find a very nice taco.) “Sundays” also didn’t fit well in the edgier half of the album, while “Anyone But You” was a dull momentum-killer in the more reflective latter half of the album. And though I liked the lyrics on “On a Tuesday in Amsterdam Long Ago”, it’s unfortunately where Duritz also sounded weakest vocally (whether it was intentional or not, to channel the fragility of the situation, is anyone’s guess, but it didn’t work for me)
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Anyway, I acknowledge i digressed somewhat here, but I think the band made an admirable effort at tackling this motif, and I’m quite confident Marty Stuart will deliver quite likely a superior album.
Sonas
May 25, 2014 @ 10:01 am
Boy Noah, no one gives their two cents better than you. This is pretty good, just leave it at that.
Noah Eaton
May 25, 2014 @ 12:22 pm
#word
Is that better? 😉
Camie jo
May 25, 2014 @ 11:11 am
He’s bonafide. He’s a keeper.
A.B.
May 25, 2014 @ 5:52 pm
I was curious to know if all of these have been sung on Marty’s show so I looked it up. Songs 8 & 10 from disc 1 and songs 5, 9, & 11 from disc 2 have not been on the show yet.
A.B.
May 26, 2014 @ 7:00 am
#8 from disc 2 hasn’t been heard on the show yet either.
Dave from Kansas
May 26, 2014 @ 3:42 pm
‘Boogie Woogie’ is on the gospel album? That’ll be interesting.
Kev
May 27, 2014 @ 5:41 am
Great news!
Kingpete
May 29, 2014 @ 10:35 am
This a response album to Matraca Berg’s “Sunday Morning to Saturday Night”? If it’s half the album that was, it’s a great one.
Linda Gail Powers
January 2, 2017 @ 1:25 pm
MartyStuart married to Connie don’t you and the guy’s in the group leave us I love your show,i consider you and Connie Smith good friend