I knew Marty started young, but to be playing with Lester Flatt at 14 is just insane. Marty is still making great music and every time I see him I appreciate that he is a link to some of the true legends of country music.

Lester Flatt keeps cracking up Marty Stuart. Priceless !

There is no music that is better than authentic mountain bluegrass!

I saw Marty play the mandolin and sing not long ago and he could still bring a crowd to their feet. He is one of the most skilled and talented country music artists of all time. And a finer man you will never meet.

I worked in downtown Nashville for many years. One day on my lunch break, I walked into a flower shop to buy some roses, and there was Marty Stuart doing the same thing. He was so handsome! I just stopped and gawked at him. He just smiled. 😊

I want to go live in a time where good country shows like this were on television. I belong there.

For Marty to have had such talent and stage presence at such a young age is amazing.

And that is why Marty loves doing this kind of show now, the fabulous superlatives are immaculately dressed just like it used to be.

PBS Country Music Documentary brought me here.

I was extremely proud to have had Charlie Nixon and his lovely wife stay in my motel in the north Georgia mountains a few years ago. My mother had a Dobro that she played as a young girl. I ask Charlie if he would play it for us, and he gladly spend 3 hours in our living room, playing some of the best sounds I had ever heard, what a treasure trove of memories. I hope he is still around today, and wish I could here him play once more. Thanks for those treasured hours.

You had Marty with Lester, Young Ricky Skaggs along with Keith Whitley playing with Ralph Stanley. What a time to be festival going.

Marty encapsulates Country Music. He's connected to the Carters, Cash, and beyond.

14 yo playing in the band of one of the greatest legends, makes my head want to explode, also shows what a humble person Lester Flatt must have been.

How the hell did Lester stay so cool, calm and collected on stage all the time? The man was one cool song machine!

Marty is born to do what GOD wanted him to do. He is a very important Role in Country Music.

I saw Marty and the Superlatives about ten years ago at The Little Bear in CO. One of the best concerts I’ve ever seen.

I love the part where Marty Stuart cracks up at 2:34. What a great example of great American music. (Scouts Out!) and God Bless America.

... he (they all) look like they really are enjoying their music talent... awesome stage presence. Grabs you !!

Lester Flatt, turned me on to bluegrass as a small boy in the 60's. He will always be my favorite.

I can see where Marty got the inspiration for the Marty Stuart show,Outstanding Music and Musicians

I was friends with Porter and he helped me on one of my songs I had written. I also knew Marty . Marty called the funeral home is Soddy Daisy Tn when my Dad passed away in 2012. Marty married Connie Smith. She was country music's best female singer and still is.

It says a lot about Marty's talent that he was a mere lad, so young he sounds like a little boy, so pretty he could have passed for a girl (but for the silly haircut), but these seasoned pros invited him to play with their band, and he kept right up with them. He was remarkable even then. And he just kept on evolving into an even greater musician. Love his later songwriting, too.

Marty even had the "hair" as a kid. Without a doubt incredibly talented, who would have known at the time that he would have went on to become a Country Music super star.

Flatt and Marty Stuart - it don't get NO BETTER than this!

What a Lively footage! Lester is a giant but Marty is surely à rising star in here!

Absolutely great footage. Marty was a real pro at 14 that's just incredible. One thing is absolute, nobody and I mean nobody has ever looked cooler in a cowboy hat than Lester Flatt did.

1:22 Lester's singing is so smooth and effortless.

WOW Marty Stewart was only 14 years old on that video.Terrific mandolinist.

I'm so glad that Marty fell in love with the mandolin! Aren't you?

Marty, at such a young age, had all the confidence and personality it took to make it! Oh, and talent too!

Marty is so amazing even as a kid. “there’s a bluebird singing” What a darling!❤❤❤

Haha! Just look at that youngster and his awesome musicality, and what a fine musician he has matured into.

Lester's right hand is a thing of beauty. Such style.

Wow, I did not know much about Marty. He really paid his dues. I did watch his show back in the day. I was really entertained.

How the years have flown by. Earlier this evening I was watching Marty sing Paradise with John Prine a year or so back. All grey now but still a good picker.

He was destined for greatness! Him and Kenny fit like a glove! Man that Lettermen show performance a few years back, they knocked a hole in the roof that night! Next Level stuff!

I watch this all the time, Marty is so damn cute when, he sings, there’s a bluebird singing. Marty steals the show. ❤❤❤

I know Marty and he’s very down to Earth a wonderful human being and extremely talented 😊😊😊😊

Wow I’m so impressed at all of them! Just perfection, and Marty so young, just a natural!

Holy sh...! Man Marty and the banjo player can flat out get it. Wow and whole new even deeper respect for Marty

Used to just see Marty talking about other country stars in whatever documentary, didn't realise he was a hot shot musician also a right good guy to boot.

I saw Lester and the boys in concert at Morehead State University in Kentucky way back in 1973. Marty had recently joined the group. Bluegrass music was big on college campuses then. Great show!!

I think if Marty practices enough, he'll have a career in music.

I really admire Marty Stewart and all of his music he performs with his great Band.

I can remember being a boy in the 70s in Gordon Alabama...about 20 miles south of Dothan Alabama. These old shows bring back so many great memories of my grandparents home. My grandma would have us all over...my uncles, aunts, cousins, & family neighbors...Grandma would always have a big Southern Alabama country supper cooked on a Saturday night & we would sit around her big dining table & eat...then everyone would go to the livingroom & watch Hee-Haw & the show that came on before Hee-Haw which if I remember correctly was The Porter Wagoner Show. Then everyone would eat a dessert homemade cake or pie my WONDERFUL GRANDMOTHER would bake. FOLKS...THESE ARE REAL MEMORIES OF REAL PEOPLE WHO HELPED SHAPE MY LIFE FOR THE BETTER!!! I can remember my great grandmother used to say all the time "the older you get the more you go back"...I never really understood what she meant then...BUT NOW THAT I'M 50 YRS OLD, I SURE UNDERSTAND WHAT SHE MEANT NOW!!! I LOVE THESE MEMORIES OF MY FAMILY...I BELIEVE IF WE DID THIS MORE...THINGS IN THIS OLD WORLD BE SO MUCH BETTER!!! Much love from Mobile Alabama.

Guy working that fiddle, makes me smile.

Young Marty was a confident musician even then, and what a career he has had, great to see this video!

I just can't stop listening to this wonderful song.

These musicians are true masters. Love 'em all!

Great Country Music! Marty Stuart was very young back in the days. A true legend! Wish we had a weekly county music on TV today!

Nobody can sing a song like Lester, Bill Monroe must have thought he discoverd gold when he met Lester

Oh my goodness, Marty was adorable and talented at such a young age!! I've loved him since the 90s and only knew a small bit of his history, what a great video!!

This is the first time I'm ever seeing this! It's truly amazing!

Great show and singers love this show we need more good country and bluegrass

We saw this line up in Kansas City,outdoors,in 1974 or '5.They were great!!!!

Now this is Real Country Music.

4:35 Fiddle player says, Let's get this tempo going!!! I love it!!!

Marty laughing is just wonderful!!

Marty is the best I actually really love his playing an music he one who still knows country period

I loved seeing young Marty Stuart, thank you for posting

absolute country legend! amazing musician and entertainer. its amazing all the country icons he,s played with

Wow cool vid. now I know where he came from and how he really shined. If I dug a little further I would learn a lot more of this star player. Thanks for the history lesson

Some master country boys at their prime here, for sure. That fiddler...wow.

Christ this is stupendous! Why is this not better known?!

They're playing an arrangement of "Dueling Banjos" famed from the movie "Deliverence" and usually played as a guitar/banjo duet, but Lester didn't quite have the chops to pull it off (though he was the standard for rhythm guitar). Plus Lester was generous to "showcase" the other members of the band.

Man I Love You Tube On the weekends after work, Its kinda become my new jukebox at the bars. Thanks all of you.

I have got to get me a jacket like Porter. I even would wear it cutting grass!

The little bitty one is Marty Stewart- we all start someplace. He started being able to shred on the mandolin.

Saw Marty Stuart last Oct with Chris Stapleton in Knoxville. He flat tore it up. Had no idea how good he was on the guitar.

2 years later at the ripe old age of 16 Marty was playing lead guitar for Johnny Cash. WOW!!!!!!

I can be in a bad mood and listen, I start smiling. Marty steals the show. Blue bird calling

2:34 Something obviously tickled Marty. Brilliant video

My lord, Marty Stuart's life. If you don't know (like I didn't know) find Ken Burn's new documentary of country music. Marty Stuart is a giant, who had three goals in life and achieved them all.

Porters is a legend also.

I now live in Lester Flatt's hometown. There is a big celebration every year to honor him.

Marty is one of the best mando players I've ever heard !!!

Marty just grinnin' from ear to ear.

He damn near ripped that fretboard off that there mandolin ..

According to IMDB, this was in August 1973. It was episode 468.

Marty a class act even a young boy!

Dang,Marty Stuart is alot more country than I thought he was.

I saw Flatt & Scruggs in the late 60s. Warm up band for Arlo Guthrie. Living legend

Pure Americana. What I love.

Makes my heart sing💕

So good to hear when country was country......

I remember the Porter Wagoner Show from high school days. Dolly Parton was a regular too!

Marty is from Philadelphia, Miss., and a most talented individual. He had a bit of a rough stretch one time like all youngsters do, but came out okay. He is doing well with his ambassadorship of country music. Ya'll come to Philadelphia and check out his project going on downtown.

I have watched this one video probably 100 times at least, thanks for posting it

Those boys are so good they can wear those hats and nobody says a thing!

Oh my LAWD!!!! Marty has been at it for a long time! He’s a treasure and a legend!!!♥️♥️♥️

The best part is when the crowd claps for breakdowns. Right on cue. 😆

Great blue grass music..enjoyed Nashville grass and Lester many times..saw the a vandy.in 73 or 74..it was good.rj.

Fiddler Paul Warren was a wonderful team player - solid fiddling, back-up, breaks,kick-offs and tags, . One of the stronger stylists who set some high standards for the bluegrass fiddlers of the world.

Loved watching this show as a kid!

Haskel McCormick was a great replacement for Scruggs. He could play like crazy then and still plays well today in 2017. Just a great guy and talent!

Wow, just an amazing performance

June 19, 1914 - Lester Flatt is born in Duncan's Chapel, Tennessee. Along with partner Earl Scruggs, he rises out of Bill Monroe's Blue Grass Boys to become a leading figure in the development of bluegrass, joining the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1985.

Gotta love a good bowl to make hairhelmet. Cute as heck when he missed his que and Lester smiled or stuck out his tongue. Marty started busting up but pulled it off. Kid was a real pro.

Like the old black folks used to say some times, "Marty been here before"♬♫♪

Such a pretty song. And done so well. Thanks for the upload !!!