Phase 1 of Marty’s plan is to open the renovated theater for performances. The Ellis Theatre built in 1926 is a centerpiece of the project. complex to house his some 20,000 country music artifacts, as well as classrooms and performances spaces.
According to the newspaper in Marty Stuart’s hometown of Philadelphia, Mississippi The Neshoba Democrat, he was in town earlier this month (March 5th) shooting for “his new TV show.” Though there’s no other details about what the show may be called, the nature of it, if it’s just a one-off thing at the moment or part of a bigger series like The Marty Stuart Show, the news is promising.įilming reportedly went down at the Ellis Theatre, which is part of the Congress of Country Music Marty Stuart is currently developing in the heart of Philadelphia with plans to eventually open a 50,000 sq. “Absolutely going back” is a pretty strong statement, and we may have just received our first indication that a new TV show is in the works. But we are absolutely going to go back to the TV cameras in the next couple years, I think.”
It’s in history books.”īut Marty Stuart also left the door open for a return to television, saying, “I love TV, and I think there’s another television show in development, probably for another network. Let’s move on … That particular show is in the books now. “ At the end of the 156 episodes and six or seven seasons, you know what? Mission accomplished. But in 2017, Marty let everyone know definitively he was moving on from the program. But since the airing of the final episode, folks have been wondering if there would ever be any more, especially with the cult status the show enjoys still to this day in reruns. And we accomplished that, ” Stuart said in 2017. “The mission statement there was to put our arms around the culture of traditional country music inside the walls of Nashville before it completely disappeared off the edge of planet Earth. Some 156 original shows aired from the series which featured Stuart and his backing band The Fabulous Superlatives and Eddie Stubbs as announcer, along with many special guests over the years, including country legends that would go on to pass away, marking The Marty Stuart Show as one of their final appearances. Of course, it didn’t work.Time and distance have only made the heart grow fonder for the work Marty Stuart did on the RFD-TV-based music presentation The Marty Stuart Show between 20. “I thought that if I learned that song, the girls would think I was a Don Juan and talk to me. “I was shy around girls, so I took Don Juan as a stage name because the Sons of the Pioneers had a song called ‘Don Juan of Mexico,’” he said in a 2008 interview with The Mail Tribune of Medford. Maddox provided the comedic impetus for the group’s gag-laden stage show, particularly through his “Don Juan” persona. His previous wife, Nila Bussey Maddox, died in 2002.īesides playing the fiddle and singing backing vocals with his siblings, Mr. He went on to perform at the Grand Ole Opry, on the singer Marty Stuart’s television show and at festivals, including a headlining engagement in Las Vegas. Maddox came out of retirement to participate in an exhibition at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum in Nashville commemorating the Bakersfield sound that he and his siblings had helped establish. Maddox went back to school to study agriculture and bought a 300-acre ranch in Ashland, Ore., where he raised Angus cattle for more than five decades.
The remaining brothers went on without them, only to call it quits two years later - because, according to Don Maddox, they lacked the talent to make a go of it on their own.įor his part, Mr. Rose hired Cal as her accompanist and pursued a solo career. Maddox and his brothers), the act broke up. In 1956, after more than a decade of success touring and recording (interrupted only by the military service of Mr. Maddox and his family - his sharecropper parents, Charlie and Lula (Smith) Maddox, and his five siblings - headed west, hitchhiking and riding in the boxcars of freight trains in search of a better life. In 1933, forced by drought to abandon their life of subsistence farming in rural Alabama, Mr. The account of how the Maddoxes made it to California rivaled the story of their rise within the ranks of West Coast country music - a Depression-era narrative as emblematic as “The Grapes of Wrath.” Rose Maddox died in 1998, Cliff in 1949, Cal in 1968, Henry in 1974 and Fred in 1992. The other members were his older brothers Cliff and Cal on guitars and his younger brother, Henry, on mandolin. Maddox played fiddle, in a sawing down-home mode, and provided backing vocals his sister, Rose, was the lead vocalist. Maddox said of his brother Fred’s style in an interview for Ken Burns’s multipart PBS documentary “Country Music” in 2019. The Maddox sound “was born from that slap bass,” Mr.