Flop Eared Mule A Country Music Death Beast and Worker in the Dylan Industrial Complex | Sydney, Australia | Est. 2004

Singer, producer, helluva multi-instrumentalist Marty Stuart is well known not just for his own hits and collaborations but for efforts in documenting and preserving country music history and culture. For a while now he's been doing The Marty Stuart Show on some US cable station, and has put the innertubes to good use providing various videos and a show run down so we can have a slice of it too. It's a nudie suited, star spangled and straw bedecked hoe down in the Hee Haw tradition,and so far has featured guests like Charley Pride, Old Crow Medicine Show and Earl Scruggs. Plus regualrs, his band The Fabulous Superlatives and Connie Smith. In good conscience I cannot endorse banjo-playing comedians. The album Country Music is one of my favourites, and you can't go wrong with his recent concept albums Badlands: Ballads Of The Lakota, Soul's Chapel and The Pilgrim, nor the older neo-trad TravisTritt collabs. He has one of the most goose-bumpy voice around today and he can even tempt Our Keith back home from the pop fauxtry of his current incarnation.

I'll embed this clip, with Earl Scruggs, but if you can spare the bandwidth go to the YouTube page and click "watch in high quality", it makes a lot of difference.