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Marty Stuart, The Pilgrim

Audio CD

Disk ID: 1573264

Disk length: 49m 8s (20 Tracks)

Original Release Date: 1999

Label: Unknown

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Tracks & Durations

1. Intro 0:25
2. Sometimes The Pleasure's Worth The Pain 3:09
3. The Pilgrim (Act.I) 0:54
4. Harlan Country 1:32
5. Reasons 3:31
6. Love Can Go To .... 0:31
7. Red, Red Wine And Cheatin' Songs 3:11
8. Truckstop 1:27
9. Hobo's Prayer 3:36
10. Goin' Nowhere Fast 3:10
11. The Observations Of A Cover 5:26
12. Intermission 0:31
13. The Greatest Love Of All Time 3:28
14. The Greatest Love Of All Time (Reprise) 1:54
15. Draggin' Around These Chains Of Love 3:12
16. The Pilgrim (Act.II) 0:36
17. Redemption 1:48
18. The Pilgrim (Act.III) 6:03
19. Outro 2:32
20. Mr. John Henry, Steel Driving Man 2:01

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Review

Marty Stuart has always been a terrific singer and picker (as well as a smart, ardent country music historian and collector), but only rarely has he written songs worthy of his other talents. However, on The Pilgrim, a concept album that tells a true story from Stuart's Mississippi hometown, he has finally found a theme to inspire a whole collection of substantial songs. The title character falls in love with a woman at work, discovers too late she's married, watches her husband kill himself, flees the town for years of drunken wandering, and finally finds redemption in religion and marriage. Here are the great themes of hillbilly music--infidelity, violence, rambling, alcoholism, church and family--wrapped up in an ongoing narrative. It's not surprising that Stuart can get satisfying results from this material when he reaches back to older musical styles and such guest performers as Ralph Stanley, George Jones, Johnny Cash, and Earl Scruggs. More impressive is the way he makes the same themes work with the cranked-up, drum-driven country-rock of modern Nashville, which seems to have forgotten how gripping the dark side of human drama can be. --Geoffrey Himes

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The Pilgrim

Tracks: 20, Disk length: 49m 6s (-1m 58s)

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