Ghost Train: The Studio B Sessions
| Ghost Train: The Studio B Sessions | ||||
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| Studio album by Marty Stuart & His Fabulous Superlatives | ||||
| Released | August 24, 2010 | |||
| Genre | Country | |||
| Language | English | |||
| Label | Sugar Hill Records | |||
| Producer | Marty Stuart | |||
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Ghost Train: The Studio B Sessions is the 17th studio album of country music singer Marty Stuart. The album was long-awaited by fans of Stuart, as most of the songs had already featured on The Marty Stuart Show, Stuart's country/bluegrass show on RFD-TV. It was recorded in the historic RCA Studio B in Nashville, which was being used by the Country Music Hall of Fame as a type of museum until Marty asked to use the "Home of a Thousand Hits" to record 'Ghost Train'.
The album has a neo-traditionalist approach to country music, an indication from Stuart that he and his Superlatives intend to carry on with their more serious approach to recording, a direct contrast to Stuart's earlier days of performing.
'Branded' is a song about a man who is constantly on the run; he has been jailed for vagrancy (amongst other crimes). He claims he is "guilty of the crime of tryin' to get back home." The song is, in sorts, a tribute to Merle Haggard who had a hit single on the country charts with the song "Branded Man" in 1967. The song is a reminder of 1970's country rock. Stuart had the idea to write the song whilst in his dressing room at the Grand Ole Opry, and had to "keep getting out of the shower" every time a new line came into his head.
'Country Boy Rock & Roll' was originally a bluegrass tune by the group Reno & Smiley. Marty heard the song on the radio in his tour bus, and immediately fell in love with the tune, deciding that upon his next visit to the recording studio he would record an electric version with the Superlatives. The song is performed as a duet between Marty Stuart and his lead guitarist, "Cousin" Kenny Vaughan.
'Drifting Apart' is a song about two lovers who are, as the title suggests, drifting apart from each other. Stuart got the idea for the song whilst in the car with his wife, Connie Smith. He told her to take a pen and paper and write down as he dictated to her: "Our home is like a prison, where we're both serving time/I'm a stranger in your world now, and it's driving me out of my mind./Drifting apart, drifting apart, darling, we're drifting apart./Out of reach, out of heart, we're slowly drifting apart." Stuart later joked in an interview that he had to reassure his partner that the song was not about her.
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