SUPERLATONE RECORDS RELEASES:

Souls' Chapel:(released 8-30-05). Recorded at The Ark in Hendersonville, Tennessee, outside Nashville, and produced by Stuart, this 11-song sacred collection of old classics and newly composed songs coalesces various music strains into a style that Stuart describes as "Mississippi gospel," inspired by the work of the Staple Singers and other Mississippi Delta artists. Stuart's band -- drummer Harry Stinson, bassist Brian Glenn, and guitarist Kenny Vaughan -- appear, with Stinson and Glenn forgoing their instruments to contribute vocals. Each of the three musicians contribute a lead vocal, as does guest Mavis Staples, who helps Stuart climax the set on "Move Along Train."

Marty Stuart & His Fabulous Superlatives Live at the Ryman: (release date 2006). This July 24, 2003 concert of traditional bluegrass music was never intended to be released officially, and was recorded for routine archival purposes only. But the ultimate vitality of the performances argued otherwise. "With a natural pedigree in bluegrass music by way of my apprenticeship with Lester Flatt," Stuart says, "I finally made a bluegrass record. It was a happy accident, a one-off evening at the Ryman. Unrehearsed. Unplanned. At the end of the show, the sound man handed me a bootleg tape of the show, and that was what later became my first bluegrass recording." Banjoist Charlie Cushman and fiddle player Stuart Duncan join Stuart and his band, and the set includes as well a rare appearance by the veteran dobro legend Josh Graves.

Badlands: (released 10-25-05). Stuart and John Carter Cash produced this 14-song collection of original compositions, including one obscure song written by Johnny Cash, at The Cash Cabin in Hendersonville. It addresses the historic and contemporary lives of Native Americans. The album is performed by Stuart and his band and, on one song, features Connie Smith's wordless vocal harmonizing. "This album," Stuart says, "is a collection of ballads, a journey through the past, present, and future of the Native American people in and around Pine Ridge, South Dakota. The songs range from the legends of Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull to the tragedy of Wounded Knee to the modern day struggles of the original Americans."