Country Music Hall of Famer, five-time Grammy-winner, and AMA Lifetime Achievement honouree Marty Stuart picks up where he left off with ‘Altitude’, his first new album in five years, exploring a cosmic country landscape populated by dreamers and drifters, misfits and angels, honky-tonk heroes and lonesome lovers.

There’s a desert flare to the music here, a sweeping, spacious feel that conjures up wide open horizons and endless stretches of two lane highway, and the production is raw and cinematic to match, tipping its cap both to Bakersfield and Laurel Canyon as it balances jangle and twang in equal measure.

While it would be easy for an artist as accomplished as Stuart to rest on his laurels, ‘Altitude’ instead showcases the work of a searcher with an insatiable appetite for growth and reflection, one whose ambition, much like his keen wit and rich imagination, only seems to grow with each and every release.

Born and raised in Philadelphia, MS, Stuart got his start in bluegrass legend Lester Flatts’ band at the tender age of thirteen, and by twenty one, he was working in the studio and on the road with Johnny Cash. Though Stuart built his early reputation backing up royalty, it wasn’t long before Nashville recognized him as a star in his own right, and over the course of forty-plus years as a solo artist, he would go on to release more than twenty major label albums, scoring platinum sales, hit singles, and just about every honour the industry can bestow along the way.

Written primarily on the road, the collection was inspired in large part by Stuart’s 2018 tour supporting Byrds co-founders Roger McGuinn and Chris Hillman, who reunited for the 50th anniversary of their seminal ‘Sweetheart Of The Rodeo’ album.

Available to independent retailers on Translucent Blue coloured vinyl.