![]() "Old Man's Vision" is a spoken word tale backed with spare, haunting guitar and drum atmospherics. Mandolins, acoustic guitars, and bass are tightly knit together to offer a story that is raw, yet elegant and pure. "Trip To Little Big Horn" is the story of Custer's Last Stand with a twist: presented as a dialogue with a ghost. Produced by Stuart with John Carter Cash, the set begins with elder Everette Helper's prayer song, and then jolts into the reeling crunch of the title track where country, rockabilly, and folk music meld together into an anthem that reveals both continuity and contradiction and top those whose views are short sighted. History, spirituality, legend, the lineage of memory, shame, guilt, and transcendence pass through these songs in equal measure. Smith and the elders of this noble and persecuted tribe who adopted Stuart as family. He wrote these songs after being guided through the Lakota lands for a period of years by John L. He was guided by the Lakota people and their elders through the true, official record of their existence, not the account in the revisionist American textbooks, and this record has the tribe's blessing. Badlands is no less a sacred endeavor, though it is a far more historical one, and these ballads of the great Lakota tribe are his own. His first, Souls' Chapel, was a rollicking, hard country record filtered through gospel music and sacred song. Badlands: Ballads of the Lakota is his second album in 2005. Marty Stuart has made an aesthetic life of living and creating from the heart of intention. ![]() In the heart of an artist it stands where cynical, critical notice can cast aspersion.
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