September 30, 1958
Born Philadelphia, MS

1960
Gets first guitar

1963
Discovers Johnny Cash, Lester Flatt, Earl Scruggs & the Foggy Mountain Boys

1968
Starts 1st band. Critic says, "Local boy sings country songs in a Beatles society."

1969
Discovers bluegrass music

1970
Attends a Johnny Cash concert in Jackson, MS
Meets Roland White of Lester's Nashville Grass at Bill Monroe's Bean Blossom Bluegrass Festival in Indiana. Roland invites him to Nashville to visit some time.
Gets a mandolin
Attends a concert with his Mom and meets Connie Smith

1971
First professional job with The Sullivan Family Gospel Singers

1972
Joins Lester Flatt's band
First appearance on the Grand Ole Opry

1973
Plays landmark concert at Michigan State University along with Flatt, Gram Parsons, Emmylou Harris and the Eagles

1978
Records/produces his own album, Marty, With a Little Help From My Friends

1979
Lester Flatts dies
Works briefly with Vassar Clements, Doc and Merle Watson
Meets Johnny Cash

1980
Joins Johnny Cash's band

1982
Records Busy Bee Café

1983
Produces Johnny Cash gospel album, Believe In Him

1985
Wrote several articles published on country music and it's personalities including For Country Music Magazine, which had his account of the European tour of Johnny Cash. Awarded first GOLD album for bringing a song called "The Highwayman" to the attention of Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, Kris Kristofferson and Willie Nelson. Signs with CBS

1986
Major label debut with Marty Stuart
ACM nomination for Best Male Vocalist

1988
CBS releases Let There Be Country

1989
Signs with MCA and releases Hillbilly Rock which Marty's emergence as a complete artist – as a writer, musician and singer. Title track becomes a Top 10 hit on the R&R and Billboard charts.

1990
"Hillbilly Rock" receives CMA nomination for Music Video of the Year

1991
Tempted is released and yields 4 Top 10 hits on the R&R and Billboard charts: "Little Things", "Til I Found You", "Tempted" and "Burn Me Down"
Records a duet titled "Whiskey Ain't Workin' with Travis Tritt. This song was also co-written by Marty. It goes on to be a Top 10 hit on both R&R and Billboard charts.
Produced Jerry & Tammy Sullivan's, A Joyful Noise on which he wrote and co-wrote a number of songs.

1992
This One's Gonna Hurt You is released. The title track, a duet with Travis Tritt, becomes a Top 10 hit on the R&R and Billboard charts.
"Whiskey Ain't Workin'" nominated for ACM's Top Vocal Duet, TNN/MCN Vocal Collaboration and receives the Vocal Event of the Year award from the CMA.
"Little Things", "Tempted" and "Whiskey Ain't Workin'" receive songwriting awards from BMI
Inducted as a member of the Grand Ole Opry

1993
"Whiskey Ain't Workin'" receives ACM's nomination for Top Vocal Duet and goes on to receive the Grammy and TNN/MCN award for Vocal Collaboration.
"This One's Gonna Hurt You" and "Now That's Country" receive songwriting awards from BMI

1994
Love & Luck is released
Records duets with:
The Jordanaires - "Don’t' Be Cruel"
The Staple Singers – "The Weight" on Rhythm Country & Blues
John Anderson – "Mama Tried" on Mama's Hungry Eyes: Merle Haggard Tribute
George Jones – "One Man Woman" on George Jones – Bradley Barn Sessions
Performed with various artists on "Red Wing" for the Asleep at the Wheel Tribute to the Music of Bob Wills. This performance received the Grammy for Best Country Instrumental. It also received a CMA Vocal Event nomination.
Rhythm, Country & Blues is nominated for Album of the Year by the CMA.
Marty is nominated for Instrumentalist of the Year by TNN/MCN.
"Devil Comes Back to Georgia" is nominated for Vocal Event by the CMA
First of 5 Marty Party shows airs on TNN.

1995
Marty Party Hit Pack is released
Receives Grammy nomination as Best Country Instrumental for "Marty Stuart Visits the Moon" and Vocal Collaboration for "Devil Comes Back to Georgia"
Receives TNN/MCN nomination for Male Vocalist of the Year
Receives Tex Ritter award from IFCO
Produced At the Feet of God for Jerry & Tammy Sullivan
Produced George Ducas for George Ducas
Marvel Comics releases "Marty Party in Space" comic book
Marty Stuart trolley is dedicated

1996
Elected President of the Country Music Foundation
Honky Tonkin's What I Do Best is released. Title track is duet with Travis Tritt which receives CMA's Vocal Event nomination
Records duets with:
Steve Earle – "Crying', Waiting', Hoping'" on notfadeaway (remembering buddy holly)
Willie Nelson – "We Must Believe in Magic" on One Voice
Travis Tritt – "Double Trouble" on Restless Kind

1997
BMI Million-Air Club adds "Tempted" and "This One's Gonna Hurt You"
Receives Metronome Award for community service
Grammy nomination, Vocal Collaboration, for "Hope"
Grammy nomination, Vocal Collaboration, for "Honky Tonkin's What I Do Best"
ACM nomination, Top Vocal Duet, for "Honky Tonkin's What I Do Best"
TNN/MCN nomination, Instrumentalist of the Year
Wrote/produced music for Fire Down Below, the Steven Seagal movie
Records duets with:
B.B King – "Confessin' the Blues" on Deuces Wild
Hank Thompson – "Green Light" on Hank Thompson & Friends
Marries Connie Smith
Executive Musical Producer for Steven Frears/Martin Scorcese film, Hi-Lo Country
Marty Stuart signature Martin guitar is designed

1998
Duet with Ralph Stanley – "She's More To Be Pitied" on Clinch Mountain Country
"Same Old Train" written and produced for Tribute to Tradition
Produced Pam Tillis on "Milk & Honey Bound", which they co-wrote for the Prince of Egypt CD
Produced Connie Smith on Connie Smith for Warner Bros. Records
Marty Stuart signature Fender Telecaster is designed

1999
The Pilgrim, produced by Marty is released
CMA nomination, Vocal Event, for "Same Old Train"
ACM nomination, Top Vocal Event, for "Same Old Train"
Grammy nomination, Best Country Instrumental, "Rueben's Train" with Doc & Merle Watson
Grammy nomination, Best Bluegrass Album, Home Sweet Home, with Doc & Merle Watson
Grammy award, Best Country Collaboration, "Same Old Train"
BMI Million-Air Club – "Little Things", "Now That's Country" and "Whiskey Ain't Workin'"
Receives Governor's Excellence in the Arts Award – Mississippi
Pilgrims: Sinners, Saints & Prophets, a book of Marty's photographs, is published
Performs with Dylan at a concert in Nashville
Performs at the Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony in Washington DC

2000
Receives Uncle Dave Macon Heritage Award
Daddy & Them – produced soundtrack and co-produced album
All the Pretty Horses – produced soundtrack/movie score
NAMMIE nomination, Country Album of the Year, The Pilgrim
Grammy nomination, Best Country Instrumental, "Mr. John Henry, Steel Driving Man"
Grammy nomination, Best Pop/Contemporary Gospel Album, Prince of Egypt
Produced Jerry &Tammy Sullivan's CD, Tomorrow
Receives Honorary Master's Degree in Lakota Leadership from Oglala College

2001
Golden Globe nomination, Best Original Score-Motion Picture, All the Pretty Horses
Duet with Earl Scruggs, "Foggy Mountain Breakdown"
Produced The Old Gray Mare for Leroy Troy
Produced Private Radio for Billy Bob Thornton
Inducted into the Mississippi Musician's Hall of Fame
Scores Wakin' Up In Reno
Worked on Yellow Bird w/Faye Dunaway which was submitted to the Cannes Film Festival in France
Serves final term as President of the Country Music Foundation
Opening of the new Country Music Hall of Fame

2002
Produced Kindred Spirits: A Tribute to the Songs of Johnny Cash
Grammy award, Best Country Instrumental Performance, "Foggy Mountain Breakdown" with Earl Scruggs and others.
Forms his new band, The Fabulous Superlatives
Signs with Columbia Records
Performs at the Tribute to Hank Williams at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, OH

2003
Produced The Christmas Guest for Andy Griffith
Produced Country Music, his first Columbia release
Duet with Merle Haggard, "Farmer's Blues"
Conceptualizes/designs the Electric Barnyard Tour with Merle Haggard
Johnny Cash dies
Celebrates innovative moment in radio with Quincy Jones at XM Radio studios in Washington DC

2004
Signs with Universal South
Scored the Lifetime TV movie, Caught in the Act
Performs at the Christmas Tree lighting ceremony in Washington D.C

2005
Universal South Entertainment introduces Superlatone Records imprint from Marty Stuart
Releases Souls' Chapel as his first project
Records Badlands, addressing his long-held interest in the lives of Native Americans
Receives the Lifetime Achievement Award for Performer from the Americana Music Association

2006
Releases Live at the Ryman, a live bluegrass performance at the Ryman Auditorium
Performs for First Lady, Laura Bush, at a fundraiser for her cancer charity.
Receives 2 nominations by the Americana Music Association: Artist of the Year and Album of the Year for Souls' Chapel.
Hosts the 17th Annual International Bluegrass Music Award show
Has a street named after him in Sparta, TN

2007
Produced a new CD, WAGONMASTER, for Porter Wagoner's 50th anniversary on the Grand Old Opry
Produced JERRY & TAMMY SULLIVAN: LIVE AT THE PLACE OF HOPE
Hosted “Country Soul” for the GRAMMY Foundation
Recorded "Mule Train" for the Gene Autry tribute project, “Boots Too Big to Fill”
Produced COAL, a CD of coal mining songs for Kathy Mattea.
Launched Sparkle & Twang: Marty Stuart’s American Musical Odyssey, an exhibit of his collection at the Tennessee State Museum
Hosted “Mississippi’s 50 Year GRAMMY Legacy” and was honored with the Governor's Award as having been one of the GRAMMY winners.
Hosted the Opry's 50th Anniversary tribute to Porter Wagoner
Published COUNTRY MUSIC: The Masters, a photo book focusing on the golden era of country music, its people, places and treasures.
Receives the JOE TALBOT AWARD from the Country Music Association in recognition of his work in collectiong and preserving country music memorabilia.
Launches a new, weekly XM Radio show, Marty Stuart's American Odyssey
Inducts LEster Flatt & Earl Scruggs into the Nashville Songwriter's Hall of Fame

Books: Marty has appeared in the following…..

Pilgrims: Sinners, Saints, Prophets by Marty Stuart (Rutledge Hill Press)

How the West Was Worn by Holly George-Warren and Michelle Freedman (Harry N. Abrams)

Hillbilly Hollywood: The Origins of Country Western Style by Debbie Bull (Rizzoli)

Tattoed on Their Tongues: A Journey Through the Backrooms of American Music by Colin Escott (Music Sales Ltd.)

Gone Country: Portraits of Country Music's New Stars by Raeanne Rubenstein (Music Sales Ltd.)

Another Song to Sing: The Recorded Repertoire of Johnny Cash by John L. Smith (Rowman and Littlefield)

Cash Family Scrapbook by Cindy Cash (Crown Publishing Book)

Cash: The Autobiography by Johnny Cash (Harper San Francisco)

Ten Feet Tall and Bulletproof: The Travis Tritt Story by Travis Tritt and Michael Bane (Warner Books)

A Century of Country: An Illustrated History of Country Music by Robert K. Oermann (TV Books Inc.)

Art of the Boot by Tyler Beard and Jim Arndt (Gibbs Smith Publisher)

The Cowboy Boot Book by Tyler Beard and Jim Arndt (Gibbs Smith Publisher)

Honky Tonk Heroes and Hillbilly Angels by Holly George-Warren

The Unmaking of Elvis by Peter Guralnick (Back Bay Books)

True Adventures with the King of Bluegrass by Tom Piazza (Vanderbilt Univ. Press)

B.B King: There Is Always One More Time by David McGee (Backbeat Books)

Are You Ready For the Country: Elvis, Dylan, Parsons and the Roots of Country Music by Peter Doggett

Country Music USA by Bill C. Malone (Univ of Texas Press)

Johnny Cash Chronicle: I've Been Everywhere by Peter Lewry (Helter Skelter Pub.)

Ring of Fire: A Tribute to Johnny Cash by Brian Mansfield (Rutledge Hill Press)

Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison: The Making of a Masterpiece by Michael Streissguth (Da Capo Press)

Ring of Fire: The Johnny Cash Reader by Michael Streissguth (Da Capo Press)

Definitive Country: The Ultimate Encyclopedia of Country Music and Its Performers by Barry McCloud (Perigee Books)

Nashville: Pilgrims of Guitar Town by Barry Hicks and Michel Arnaud (Stewart, Tabori, Chang)

Saturday Night With Daddy at the Opry by Libby Leverett-Crew (Rutledge Hill Press)

The Rough Guide to Country Music by Kurt Wolff (Rough Guides)

Mojo Triangle; Birthplace of Country, Blues, Jazz, Rock-n-Roll by James L. Dickerson (Schirmer Books)

Martin Guitar Masterpieces: A Showcase of Artists' Editions, Limited Editions and Custom Guitars by Dick Boak (Bullfinch Press)

Martin Guitars: Illustrated History by Jim Washburn, Richard Johnston (Rodale Press)

Country Reader: Twenty Five Years of the Journal of Country Music by Paul Kingsbury (Vanderbilt Univ. Press)

Country: The Music and Musicians-From the Beginnings to the '90s by Country Music Foundation (Abbeville Press)

Comprehensive Country Music Encyclopedia by Country Music Magazine (Times Books)

A Biography of Lester Flatt by Jake Lambert (Jay-Lyn Publication)

All Shook Up: Mississippi Roots of American Popular Music by Christine Wilson (Mississippi Dept. of Archives and History)

Saddlemaker to the Stars: The Leather and Silver Art of Edward h. Bohlin by James H. Nottage (Univ. of Washington Press)

Rednecks and Bluenecks: The Politics of Country Music by Chris Willman

Johnny Cash: The Biography by Michael Streissguth

On DVD:

Fire Down Below (1997)
Hi-Lo Country (1999)
Daddy & Them (1999)
Tom Sawyer (animated -2000)
All the Pretty Horses (2000)
King of Bluegrass: The Life and Times of Jimmy Martin (2003)

Carter Family: Will the Circle Be Unbroken (PBS)
American Roots Music (PBS)
The Ryman: Mother Church of Country Music (PBS)
The Appalachians (PBS)