American Ballads: The Photographs of Marty Stuart

Although known primarily as a country music star, Marty Stuart has been taking photographs of the people and places surrounding him since he first went on tour with bluegrass performer Lester Flatt at age twelve. His inspirations to do this include his own mother, Hilda Stuart, whom he watched document their family's everyday life in Mississippi, bassist Milt Hinton's photographs of fellow jazz artists, and Edward Curtis's well-known images of Native...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826520170
• ISBN13: 9780826520173
• Release Date: July 2014
• Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
• Length: 132 Pages
• Weight: 2.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 11.3" x 10.7"