Country Music owes so much to this fine Gentleman and singer song writer. I hope to see him and Superlatives someday.

Marty Stuart is the owner of a fine mind. His eloquence serves Country Music and Bluegrass in a profound way. A national treasure. Oh...he's a pretty fine musician,too!

Watching all 4 of these with Marty and you, I am reminded of how history was passed along from elders to the next generation long before there was the written or the recorded word. You both are treasures of American music for what you are doing to preserve the history to build upon the future.

Well. As great a musician, singer and performer as Marty Stuart is, the best thing about him is that he is a first-class person and a child of God. Those things are even better ...

After our son graduated basic training in Fort Lenord Wood, Missouri we as a family stopped in Nashville. Took the kids to the Rhyman. What a treasure. Thank you Marty Stuart. So glad it's still around for future generations. History matters.

Marty Stewart is a true American treasure.

During my days with T. Graham Brown I had the privilege to play the Ryman probably thirty times in all. Magical memories.I was a lucky man indeed. ❤️🎸❤️ And again, so glad I got to spend an afternoon with Marty back in the day. Thanks for doing this video!

When i was a kid, i got one of those tours of the Ryman. I still remember it at 67.

It's nice to have content built from warm wood in a day that's filled with plastic entertainment.

Two gentlemen with so much class and so much lived history between them. I miss Joe's interviews so much. Bless you, Joe.

I can watch Ken Burns documentary on Country music again and again.Thank you Marty for your expertise and talent.

Very proud of Marty, how he values history, and the legacy he is building. I have fond memories of the Ellis Theater growing up in Philadelphia back in the 50's and 60's. Can't wait to visit his Congress when it opens.

So good that the Ryman was saved. I didn’t know that Marty Stuart was involoved in that, but I’m not surprised. As a musician myself, I see his love for music in his face and his voice when he performs and whenever he speaks. It’s true.

Just as Ken Burns " Country Music " is part of the American Curriculum, as is Marty , You Joe are just as an important part , this will inform generations to come. I am so grateful you take the time to present these !!! You sir have gone from GOLD to PLATINUM. I just rewatched Country Music,,,,,there is so much information that I find it impossible to retain all that is there in one viewing,the same I find your videos, I often have to watch them over again. To any that have not been to Nashville,,,,, A stop at the Ryman is a must,,,, and just as important is a trip to The Musicians Hall of Fame,,,,there is more great artifacts than the rock museum in Cleveland,,,,,again more than you can retain,,,,I will be back there again ,,,,,soon,,,,, Thanks Joe,,,,you da man !!!!

Joe, that was a fantastic series of interviews with Marty! Never knew that he was so involved with the Ken Burns Documentary about Country Music. It's great that both of you are passing down a tradition that hopefully will last well into the distant future! Thanks for these interviews. Be well & stay safe.......... 👍👍😉😉

Until seeing these interviews, I had no idea that Marty was such a deep thinker or that he was so profoundly dedicated or interested in preserving history, culture, or the arts. Moreover, I didn’t know that he was genuinely warm and loyal. For the record, I’m not sure that I’d ever seen him interviewed before. My awareness of him was pretty much limited to seeing him on stage performing during one broadcast or another. He really surprised me! He truly seems to be at peace and like a man who is sharply tuned into what really matters. Really nice interview Joe! Now I’ll be up late searching for and listening to MS recordings. It’s already close to 10 PM, I better get moving!

He's a guy with a huge heart just like his wife Connie.

Marty IS the "Keeper of the Flame".

Marty Stuart was the Shelby Foote of Burns' Country Music. "Nobody can hold a grudge like Hillbillies."

I agree with Marty, in America we loose more beautiful buildings and architecture in the name of progress? I went to the U.K. and saw them still using 1000 year old buildings, its a travesty that needs to be changed.

As a young married couple we stopped in Nashville, & parked on the street outside the Ryman; walked up to the side door which opened for us. We went inside & enjoyed just looking at the beauty of the old building. This was probably about 1964 or so. I know one couldn't do that today, but it is a fun thing for us to look back on after 60 years of marriage!

Marty is always a fascinating interview. Super class act with a pure love of tradition and history. This country needs more people like him. As always a superb interview by Joe.

Thank you Joe for preserving a very important part of our history ☮️

I'm a big blues/jazz/rockabilly fan in Australia and until i watched ken burns' Country Music this week on TV, i had never even heard of Marty Stuart. Now I've found a great new artist and guitar player to check out. Marty has the music in his soul. Also, this is a great interview to add to the Ken Burns effect. As Marty says, it brings in new people.

i have this recurring fantasy / dream that when i go down to the wed nite open mic jam session the house band is marty & the superls and we rip through 4 songs... big river mama tried dark hollow & friend of the devil... thanks joe for all that you do it's a great series....

One word, Joe..............EXCELLENT! You know I'm a big cheerleader of The Musicians Hall of Fame and Museum here in Ohio....Anyone I know who travels to Nashville, always gets your museum first on the list of places to see in Nashville!

Thank you! Just recently discovered Marty Stuart and enjoying all the music!

Wow! Thank you Marty, thank you both.

When I watched one of the episodes of country music on PBS I enjoyed watching Marty talk about the first time he saw his wife something to the effect of ‘I saw her and I thought she is the most beautiful girl I’ve ever seen…I’m going to marry her one day…and I did.’ Vince Gill had a moment also that he carries with him from when he first got to work with his wife something like ‘we were working together and I walked into the room and she smiled at me and I haven’t been the same since.” It’s so sweet and delicate of these men to share! I’d love to find a southern guy like that!! I guess it doesn’t help that I don’t live in the south.

Watching your interviews with Marty got me hooked on him. He is such a knowledgeable person and has such a calmness about him. Then when I watch him play, he and his band members are simply amazing. His command of the guitar is surreal. Thanks, Joe for "showing me the light" of this wonderful person and performer. It opened a new path of music excellence for me. And Marty, thank you so much for all your contributions to not only country music but maintaining it for future generations.

Two class acts. Bless you both.

Thoroughly enjoyed this one too. I've watched the Ken Burns special and was given the book for Christmas in 2020.

During the 1950s, Carnegie Hall was slated for demolition to make way for a 44-story skyscraper. Thank God, some people with wisdom and foresight fought for its preservation and renovation. Marty Stuart is exactly this kind of person. It took a country music historian and visionary like Marty to appreciate the importance of Ryman Auditorium, and preserve it for future generations. Marty Stuart is a champion of country music history and tradition.

This series was so good! Thank you for all your hard work!

Super Marty!!!

If you haven't been to a show at the Ryman you really ought to.

Such a great, great series. You both play off each other so well. Thanks for telling the story of the Ryman. No trip to Nashville would be complete without seeing a show there. Now I must come to the Musicians Hall of Fame on my next visit. Ken Burns couldn't do Country Music without Marty Stuart pointing the way to the most important stories. That's how I feel about these interviews.

“Country Music” ... I’ve watched it twice now and it had me wondering how Marty was doing. Glad to see he is doing well and so is the Country Music Congress. Thanks for interviewing him, Joe! (Maybe you can get Connie to come with him next time!)

These were great interviews. The humanity of real musicians, their passion is so heartwarming thank you foe posting

Great interview of one of the Greats. I attended The Guy Clark Memorial show at the Ryman It was a very spiritual event. So glad it was preserved.

Thanks for this wonderful series with the talented Marty Stuart. With this being the anniversary of one of the saddest days in music history, I am reminded of a story about Marty coming here to Memphis in 1985 to be a part of the Class of 55 recording. As the story goes, he caught a flight out of town with Rick Nelson. They talked about life on the road and somehow got on the topic of the Buddy Holly plane crash and Rick made the comment about being a awful way to die. So ironic if true. Thanks again for great series on Marty.

Joe, awesome interview series! And thanks too you and Marty for preserving our musical history! Y’all’s hard work and determination will never be forgotten! Looking forward to more great guests!💫

This 4 part interview is so good Joe, but you might have shot yourself in the foot. Can't really go anywhere but down from here it seems. Thank you sir, very much appreciated

Super job Joe & Marty! I sure appreciate all you do. And being a musician it hits home and to the heart!

Nashville, Memphis, I need to add Mississippi to my list.

👏👏👏👏👏👏👏 Thanks, Joe. Can't wait to see your MHOF museum.

I'm going to make sure I watch the Ken Burns.....

Awesome all 4 👏🏼, great job! Videos like this touches the soul. Thank you Joe

Joe, just got a chance to watch another video with Marty Stuart! What a great interview and perspective from Marty. Thoroughly enjoyable, entertaining and a whole lot of history! Nuttin' mo' better.

Awesome, Mr. C! 🎸🎙🖤

Great interview Joe...TY. You Guys and Gals have such a love and devotion to the arts...wish I had been smitten early on. My nieces and nephews are carrying the next wave and traditions now in Nashville. May be quiet now but Covid wont last forever. 2022 world tours and new material will fill the arenas. See you at the MHAF&M soon.

Loved watching all 4 of these with Marty and you. Now I'm going to look into your youtube vault for more to watch. Thanks so much for doing these, teaching us cool stuff and inspiring us all. I had just started watching the Ken Burns country all over again so it was great to see how Marty played a part in it.

Thanks Joe and Marty. Enjoyed that immensely.

I would like to see the young country artists get away from pop, and back to the soul of country music. Enjoyed your interview, Thanks to both of you!

I've enjoyed this 4 part series probably more than anything I've watched regarding music in decades. The absolute love and respect you and Marty have for the history...and it's importance for future generations makes an old man proud. Thank you for all you've done, and for what you've yet to do. It'll be remembered. Now that's a legacy!

Great one. Important and even some friendly fun at the end. Thanks Joe. mVm

You have quite an impressive body of work here. I’ve now watched all the videos and I’ve learned so much. As a teenager, my father wanted me to learn to play the piano and though I learned to read music, I was totally tone-deaf and could only play notes, never music. I would like to share a few comments and thoughts about the MHOF channel. To properly watch a 30-minute interview could easily take me an hour and thirty minutes, mainly because I didn’t know the vocabulary of the music language. I often had to look up words to find out what was being discussed. And sometimes your guest(s) would mention a particular song, or a riff, or maybe some “mistake” that became part of music history. I listened to a lot of good music, often with a new respect for the sound. I know that you have no control over the closed-caption, but when I didn’t understand a phrase I would go to the CC and these were often funnier than anything you were discussing - my guess is the person creating the closed-caption didn’t understand any more about it than I did! And then there were times where I felt a visual recognition of people who I could not possibly have known - at least after watched hours of the same videos and asking several friends, it finally came to me who I was confusing with Shelby Singleton. One last question, how likely is it that someone would actually see Joe Chambers on a visit to the MHOF? Thanks again for the great work.

Great Memories Joe. Thanks For having Marty on your program and Thank you and Marty for your preservation of All Music. We've lost to Many Historical Buildings of all Types as well as losing many great Musicians of all types!

I love your series of great interviews Joe! Thank you so much.

Two people truly dedicated to country music.

Marty failed to mention country bluesman Mississippi John Hurt out of Avalon, MS. Nobody else in the world like him.

Doesn't get any better than this. Marty Stuart is a National Treasure…as is Joe Chambers!

This just made me want to pick up my guitar and play. So I did. This guy is what its all about. And so are you Joe. 👍🏻😎

Don't forget the University of Oxford in Mississippi. Home of the Blues Archives

Thank you Joe love this very much good stuff😎

Thank you sir!!! Loving these shows!!!

Hi Joe, love all of your features but have enjoyed Marty especially. Coming from the UK country music was always mainly the mainstream artists but have seen the Ken Burns documentary on country music during lockdown and loved it, the history the characters and hearing music and artists I never new existed.

I love seeing footage of Marty when he was just a kid. You can tell who it is, for sure. Interesting story. If I ever make it south... Thanks for this

I “Liked” this before I even watched it....Joe hosting plus Marty? Guaranteed to be a great interview.

Thank you for making and posting this video, truly.

Thank you so much for these wonderful moments with you and Marty. Really appreciate all you do. Have enjoyed every one of these with Marty. You just have to convince Connie to come in for an interview, too. Take care and keep on doing what you're doing. All the best.

Awesome...thanks Joe for remarkable interview. Greatly appreciated.

These Interviews with Marty Stuart are the most interesting ones you've done. Didn't know Marty was behind saving the Ryman. I knew Roy Acuff was for demolishing it because of the hookers & red light district around it and boy was it hot in the summer in that place.

I'm glad the Ryman was saved. Joe have you considered a interview with Carl or Carol Gorodetsky about the Nashville String Machine? All music credits them on over 1,100 albums. Chet couldn't have produced the late 60's and 70's albums without his signature lush string sections.

This was a wonderful series. Thank you, Joe. hj

Love your series Joe. I’m a great admirer of Marty and his band, and as a historian also. I live in New England and saw your museum on the road at The Big E fair, and that was a great exhibit. Was that during the Nashville flood?

Thumbs Up!

Hey Joe here in a very cold Omaha, Nebraska I'm watching old vids and I came across Marty & McGuinn doing My back Pages and guess who I seen front and center in the front row.. Ha.. fame sure has it's privilege... Lucky guy ..

Great thing you’re doing with the MHOF Joe. Watched these all and enjoyed them with great interest as always.

Joe, thank you for this series with Marty. I thoroughly enjoyed it. So are you at the museum on a daily basis? One day when I come to see the museum, I'd love to shake your hand and say thanks. (Don't worry, I will have had my vaccines by then LOL.)

Thanks Joe, as always I enjoyed this interview a great deal and didn't want it to end. Just wondered if you have ever thought of a John Jorgenson interview? Great musician and a super nice guy. Again thanks!!

Thanks for this. Really inspiring

Every summer we would go 4 r 5 times . Was on the front row center on the last night before it was moved to Opry land.

Speechless Joe, except for Thank You!!!

Great series!

Buddy, You need to Interview Frankie Miller (The Blackland Farmer) who played the Louisiana Hayride. He is my buddy, he just turned 90 but remembers the 50s and 60s like it was a month ago. The Stories I have heard from him I have not heard from another living person. His stories have so many personal details. He was very close with George Jones, Tommy Hill and a bunch of the other Star Day artists. Respond here and we can go from there.

Great interview(s)! Is it possible to make the theme at the beginning and end of the videos (Chit Chat - S.Wariner-according to video) available to purchase and download? Sounds like a Tom Petty and Mike Campbell thing - really cool

The late John Hartford had a good song out called" They're going to Tear down the Grand Ole Opry", about knocking the Ryman down before the made plans to save it. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/hJd2edyqr-Ccp5c.html

saw the series enjoyed it a lot i'm curious do you know why, the night club,museum,Buck Owens built in Bakersfield does not have anything in it about the late Don Rich one of my fav pickers

What's you favorite song Mr Stuart? Just curious 🤗🎶

It's a shame the way The Grand Ole Opry treated The Killer.

And sorry. Most importantly he is a great Christian.

Love Marty but Ken Burns and his left wing ideas is a no for me. I won’t be supporting anything that involves Ken Burns.