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"Nobody in Nashville was really paying attention to the old Nudie suits people basically were ashamed of that image, and they were being sold and pawned. "The first thing I acquired was guitars and costumes," he says. Stuart felt that the historic accoutrements of the country world merited similar attention. I thought it was so cool that someone was archiving all this." Here was all these treasures from the Beatles, the Stones, the Who, Buddy Holly. Isaac Tigrett had just started the Hard Rock Café. I was in London touring with Johnny Cash. "When it really exploded for me was in the early 1980s. "I've always been a collector at heart," he says. Accordingly, Stuart began to acquire the artifacts of this world.

"From the first time I played with Lester Flatt, I sensed an extreme amount of history around me," he says. In all his endeavors - much including his songwriting, singing, playing, and producing - there is a storyteller at work, a man who listens to and translates the world he knows. In addition to the first three Superlatone releases - the gospel collection Souls’ Chapel, the concert recording Marty Stuart & His Fabulous Superlatives Live at the Ryman and Badlands, a group of songs about the lives of Native Americans - Stuart will publish collections of his photography, as well as pursue associated work in other media. Keen to broaden the scope of his life-long passion to uncover the depths and eccentricities of Southern culture, Stuart now finds himself in the opening stages of combining music and the arts to continue his ambitious story. With the launch of his Superlatone Records imprint backed by Universal South Entertainment, Marty Stuart opens the most ambitious chapter yet. Stuart's energetic enthusiasm has gone outside music, yielding impressive work as a photographer, writer, collector and arts executive.

Stuart has produced records for some of the most distinguished artists working today, and many famous names have chosen to record his songs. He has evangelized for country music around the world, eulogized the departed legends of the field, and identified and encouraged talents of the future.

He has made lasting music as a front man and in collaboration with virtually every major roots music figure of his era, from Lester Flatt to Bob Dylan. But his success proves the difficulty of gauging a career in charts alone. He has scored six top-ten hits, one platinum and five gold albums, and four Grammy Awards. Marty Stuart is country music’s renaissance man.