VOL № CW024 — February 2023
Busy Bee Cafe
Marty Stuart
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“The moment country music was born, it started dying — at least according to a particular substrate of purists. For decades, they have dug in their heels for fiddle, for mandolin, for harmonies. Every so often, they get a win, pulling the rope over to their side in the endless tug-of-war between country music that incorporates the pop trends of the day (for both creative and commercial reasons), and country music that prioritizes mining the music’s widely mythologized tradition.
Marty Stuart was one of those artists. On 1982’s Busy Bee Cafe, the singer and mandolin player flaunted his real country bona fides via both his prodigious picking and the gaudy talent among the album’s personnel — earned in the course of a career that had already, apocryphally, lasted a ...
LP 1 / Side A
| 1 One More Ride |
| 2 Blue Railroad Train |
| 3 I Don't Love Nobody |
| 4 Watson's Blues |
| 5 Busy Bee Cafe |
LP 1 / Side B
| 1 Down The Road |
| 2 Hey Porter |
| 3 Boogie For Clarence |
| 4 Get In Line Brother |
| 5 Soldiers Joy |
| 6 Long Train Gone |
