Marty Stuart discography explained

Artist:Marty Stuart
Studio:18
Live:2
Soundtrack:1
Compilation:7
Singles:33
Music Videos:28

Marty Stuart is an American country music singer. His discography comprises 18 studio albums, one soundtrack album, two live albums, and various compilation albums, in addition to 33 singles. Stuart has recorded for a variety of record labels, but his most commercially successful period was as a member of MCA Records' roster during the late 1980s and 1990s. Since then, Stuart has mainly released albums through his self-owned label Superlatone Records, often in conjunction with other labels to handle distribution.

Studio albums

1970s and 1980s

TitleAlbum detailsPeak positionsCertifications
(sales threshold)
US Country
[1]
With A Little Help From My Friends [A]
  • Release date: 1978
Busy Bee Cafe
Marty Stuart 34
Hillbilly Rock 19
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

1990s

TitleAlbum detailsPeak chart positionsCertifications
(sales threshold)
US Country
US
[2]
CAN Country
Tempted
  • Release date: January 22, 1991
  • Label: MCA Records
20193
  • CAN: Gold
  • US: Gold
This One's Gonna Hurt You
  • Release date: July 7, 1992
  • Label: MCA Records
12776
  • CAN: Platinum
  • US: Gold
Let There Be Country
  • Release date: August 1992
  • Label: Columbia Records
Love and Luck
  • Release date: March 15, 1994
  • Label: MCA Records
281416
Honky Tonkin's What I Do Best
  • Release date: June 18, 1996
  • Label: MCA Records
2719621
The Pilgrim 6321
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

2000s, 2010s and 2020s

TitleAlbum detailsPeak chart positions
US Country
US
US Christ
[3]
US Indie
[4]
Country Music 40
Souls' Chapel 75
Badlands: Ballads of the Lakota
  • Release date: October 25, 2005
  • Label: Superlatone/Universal South
Cool Country Favorites
  • Release date: July 2008
  • Label: Superlatone
  • Release date: August 24, 2010
  • Label: Superlatone/Sugar Hill Records
46
Nashville, Volume 1:
Tear the Woodpile Down
  • Release date: April 24, 2012
  • Label: Superlatone/Sugar Hill Records
41
Saturday Night / Sunday Morning
  • Release date: September 30, 2014
  • Label: Superlatone/Thirty Tigers
241621029
Way Out West
  • Release date: March 10, 2017
  • Label: Superlatone
44[B]18
Altitude
  • Release date: May 19, 2023
  • Label: Snakefarm
Songs I Sing In The Dark
  • Release date: TBA
[C]
  • Label: Superlatone
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

Live albums

TitleAlbum detailsPeak positions
US Bluegrass
Live at the Ryman
  • Release date: February 7, 2006
  • Label: Superlatone/Universal South
4
The Gospel Music of Marty Stuart
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

Album/Book Combos

TitleAlbum details
Country Music: The Masters
The Pilgrim: A Wall-To-Wall Odyssey
  • Release date: November 12, 2019[6]
  • Label: BMG/MCA Records/Universal Music Special Markets

Compilation albums

TitleAlbum detailsPeak positionsCertifications
(sales threshold)
US Country
Once Upon a Time
The Marty Party Hit Pack
  • Release date: March 14, 1995
  • Label: MCA Records
37
  • US: Gold
20th Century Masters:
The Millennium Collection
  • Release date: January 8, 2002
  • Label: MCA Nashville
Whiskey and Rhinestones:
The Ultimate Collection
  • Release date: September 29, 2004
  • Label: Hump Head Records
Icon
Now That's Country:
The Definitive Collection, Vol. 1
  • Release date: October 6, 2017
  • Label: Hump Head Records
The Definitive Collection, Vol. 2
  • Release date: March 29, 2019
  • Label: Hump Head Records
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

Singles

1980s

YearSinglePeak chart
positions
Album
US Country
[7]
CAN Country
1985"Arlene"1953Marty Stuart
1986"Honky Tonker"59
"All Because of You"3957
"Do You Really Want My Lovin'"5951
1988"Mirrors Don't Lie"56Let There Be Country
"Matches"66
1989"Cry! Cry! Cry!"3259Hillbilly Rock
"Don't Leave Her Lonely Too Long"4225
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

1990s

YearSinglePeak chart
positions
Album
US Country
CAN Country
1990"Hillbilly Rock"86Hillbilly Rock
"Western Girls"2016
1991"Little Things"83Tempted
"Till I Found You"1211
"Tempted"54
1992"Burn Me Down"712
"This One's Gonna Hurt You (For a Long, Long Time)"(with Travis Tritt)76This One's Gonna Hurt You
"Now That's Country"1816
"High on a Mountain Top"2429
1993"Hey Baby"3831
1994"Kiss Me, I'm Gone"2623Love and Luck
"Love and Luck"5459
"That's What Love's About"68
1995"The Likes of Me"5846The Marty Party Hit Pack
"If I Ain't Got You"4652
1996"Honky Tonkin's What I Do Best" (with Travis Tritt)238Honky Tonkin's What I Do Best
"Thanks to You"50
"You Can't Stop Love"2638
1997"Sweet Love"[8]
1999"Red, Red Wine and Cheatin' Songs"6973The Pilgrim
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

2000s and 2010s

YearSinglePeak positionsAlbum
US Country
2003"If There Ain't, There Ought'a Be"41Country Music
(as Marty Stuart and the Fabulous Superlatives)
"Too Much Month (At the End of the Money)"54
"Farmer's Blues"
2010"Little Heartbreaker (The Likes of You)"Ghost Train (The Studio B Sessions)
2012"Tear the Woodpile Down" (with Buck Trent)Nashville, Volume 1: Tear the Woodpile Down
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

Other singles

Guest singles

YearSingleArtistPeak chart
positions
Album
US Country
CAN Country
1991"The Whiskey Ain't Workin'" Travis Tritt24It's All About to Change
1993"The Devil Comes Back to Georgia"Mark O'Connor (with Charlie Daniels,
Johnny Cash and Travis Tritt)
54Heroes
1996"Hope" Various57
1998"Same Old Train" 59Tribute to Tradition
2000"Blue Collar Dollar"Jeff Foxworthy (with Bill Engvall)63Big Funny
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

Music videos

YearTitleDirector
1985"Arlene"
1988"Mirrors Don't Lie"Steven Kopels
1989"Cry, Cry, Cry"Stephen Buck
1990"Hillbilly Rock"Joanne Gardner
1991"Little Things"
"Tempted"John Lloyd Miller
1992"The Whiskey Ain't Workin'" (w/ Travis Tritt)Gerry Wenner
"This One's Gonna Hurt You
(For a Long, Long Time)" (w/ Travis Tritt)
John Lloyd Miller
"Now That's Country"
1993"Hey Baby"
"Dream, Dream, Dream"Scene Three
1994"Kiss Me, I'm Gone"John Lloyd Miller
"Love and Luck"
"That's What Love's About"
1995"Don't Be Cruel" (Live)[9] Louis J. Horvitz
"The Likes of Me"Steven Goldmann
1996"Honky Tonkin's What I Do Best" (w/ Travis Tritt)Michael Merriman
"Thanks to You"John Lloyd Miller
"Magic Town"
1999"Red, Red Wine and Cheatin' Songs"
2003"If There Ain't, There Ought'a Be"Traci Goudie
"Farmer's Blues" (w/ Merle Haggard)Deb Haus
2007"Committed to Parkview" (w/ Porter Wagoner)Brian Barnes
2009"The Heartbreak Kind"Milton Sneed
2017"Way Out West"Reid Long
"Torpedo"
"Wait For The Morning (Acoustic)"
"Time Don't Wait"
2019"The Duchess (Queen of the Dixie Line)" (w/ Harry Stinson (musician))
2021"I've Been Around"

Guest appearances

YearVideoDirector
1993"The Devil Comes Back to Georgia" (w/ Mark O'Connor,
Charlie Daniels, Travis Tritt & Johnny Cash)
Gustavo Garzon
1996"Hope" (Various)Frank W. Ockenfels III
1998"Same Old Train" (Various)Steve Boyle
2000"Blue Collar Dollar" (w/ Jeff Foxworthy & Bill Engvall)Thomas Smugala
2001"Foggy Mountain Breakdown" (Earl Scruggs & Friends)Gerry Wenner

Notes

^ With A Little Help From My Friends was reissued in 1992 as The Slim Richey Sessions[10] ^ Way Out West reached number 71 on Billboard's United States Top Current Albums chart, which ranks the best-selling recently-released albums.[11] It never appeared on the magazine's normal album chart, which includes older releases in addition to current albums. ^ Songs I Sing In The Dark is an acoustic album that is to be released in a song by song fashion, with one new track debuting each month, starting in March 2021. A release date for the entire project has not been announced.[12] [13]

Notes and References

  1. [{{BillboardURLbyName|artist=marty stuart|chart=Country Albums C}} Marty Stuart Album & Song Chart History - Country Albums]. Billboard. Prometheus Global Media. December 8, 2010.
  2. [{{BillboardURLbyName|artist=marty stuart|chart=all}} Marty Stuart Album & Song Chart History - Billboard 200]. Billboard. Prometheus Global Media. December 8, 2010.
  3. [{{BillboardURLbyName|artist=Marty Stuart|chart=Christian Albums}} Marty Stuart Album & Song Chart History - Christian Albums]. Billboard. Prometheus Global Media.
  4. [{{BillboardURLbyName|artist=Marty Stuart|chart=Independent Albums}} Marty Stuart Album & Song Chart History - Independent Albums]. Billboard. Prometheus Global Media.
  5. Book: 978-1402214530. Country Music: The Masters. Stuart. Marty. 2008. Sourcebooks MediaFusion .
  6. Book: 978-1947026506. The Pilgrim: A Wall-To-Wall Odyssey. Stuart. Marty. 12 November 2019. BMG Books .
  7. [{{BillboardURLbyName|artist=marty stuart|chart=Country Songs}} Marty Stuart Album & Song Chart History - Country Songs]. Billboard. Prometheus Global Media. December 8, 2010.
  8. Single Reviews. Billboard. August 30, 1997.
  9. Web site: CMT : Videos : Marty Stuart : Don't Be Cruel (to A Heart That's True). Country Music Television. October 14, 2011.
  10. Web site: Marty Stuart Discography - Albums.
  11. Web site: Top Current Albums. April 1, 2017. Billboard.biz. subscription . October 12, 2018.
  12. Web site: New Music: Marty Stuart Announces Songs I Sing in the Dark and Releases. 24 March 2021 .
  13. Web site: Rolling Stone. March 24, 2021. Marty Stuart Readies New Album 'Songs I Sing in the Dark': Nashville vet previews 20-song acoustic project with 1976's "Ready for the Times to Get Better". Freeman, Jon. Jon Freeman (journalist). 2022-02-04.