Marty Stuart | The Country Music Masters

Johnny Cash On The Cover	Country Music - The Masters Book of Photos by Marty Stuart spanning the 1970s to the present concerning the golden era of country music, its people, places and treasures. Release Date: June 5th 2007 "Truly great art is, one hundred percent of the time, achieved by visionaries, not technicians. That is not to say a great visionary may not also be a great technician but art lives and breathes based on the soul of the artist, not his or her technical prowess. Marty Stuart is one of those rare human beings who possesses all of it. A photograph can just be a piece of paper with an image on it. A flat one dimensional image. A picture. But when the observer with his finger on the button has the life experience it takes to understand the life he’s shooting, the photograph is a story. Marty’s photographs live and breathe. If it’s a person, you can hear their thoughts, feel their pain, or joy and read at least a part of their story. If it’s a building or a landscape, you can feel the presence of those who have walked there or lived there through the years. Let these flesh and blood characters and these ghosts wash over you. Disappear into the stories. They were captured, in a moment, forever, by Marty Stuart. A visionary." Billy Bob Thornton Los Angeles, California

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