Marty Stuart & His Fabulous Superlatives

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A close-up of Marty Stuart and His Fabulous Superlatives.

Marty Stuart and His Fabulous Superlatives

Marty Stuart got his start on the road with Lester Flatt and Johnny Cash before shooting to solo stardom in the '80s and '90s. Since 2002, the Country Music Hall of Fame guitar and mandolin player has been backed by His Fabulous Superlatives, and the four-man collective in 2025 released Space Junk, 20 timeless instrumentals influenced by cosmic country and surf guitar. Stuart has a deep catalog and an affinity for covers; he and the band played Willie Nelson and Buddy Holly tunes last time they were at the Stoughton Opera House. 

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media release: Marty Stuart and band share the music video for “California Pt 1 (Bobbie Gentry, Please Call Home)” off Space Junk, their first-ever full-length double LP of 20 original instrumentals. Watch the music video here. “Instrumentals have always been a part of the Fabulous Superlatives repertoire, but this is the first completely instrumental album we’ve done, largely inspired by two of my favorite bands from sixties, The Ventures and Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass,” Stuart says. “They did some dangerously cool instrumental records. We’ve done bluegrass, gospel, and country records. Our hearts just led us to this one. Space Junk turned us back into kids with our first guitars. We thought the world needed a fresh instrumental album by a pretty good band, so we composed twenty instrumentals and took them to the microphones.” The album, previously only available as a Record Store Day vinyl exclusive, is available as a CD, on vinyl, and digitally. Space Junk is available on all formats here.

In a career spanning over 50 years, dozens of albums, and too many shows to count, Marty Stuart is still restless and pushing himself to new heights. Space Junk showcases the inimitable interplay and bond between Marty and his longtime band The Fabulous Superlatives, Kenny Vaughan, Harry Stinson, and Chris Scruggs. The album’s origins can be traced to Marty’s years composing music for film and television, including the score for All The Pretty Horses, which garnered a Golden Globe® Award nomination for “Best Original Score” and earned him GRAMMY® Awards in the category of “Best Country Instrumental Performance” for “Foggy Mountain Breakdown” and “Hummingbyrd.”  “Scoring required a cinematic way of thinking.” reveals Marty. “I had to make music for what the scene called for, which turned me into more of a visual player in an understated way. That kind of thinking followed me into the studio during the making of Space Junk. I knew the music had to be pretty, but it also had to say something without losing its drive.”