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If Marty was a man concerned with concealing his age, why doesn’t he dye his hair?įurthermore, if you look at promotional photos of Marty from earlier in his career, before the sands of age started carving their cruel lines into his collar, he also wore shirts that many times concealed his neckline. Some have said Marty Stuart wears scarves to conceal a a neckline that has aged faster than the rest of him, but this certainly doesn’t appear to be the case in his scarf-free pictures. And lo and behold, there’s no grotesque scars, embarrassing birthmarks, or big hairy moles. One of the biggest misnomers about Marty’s neck wear is that his scarves are an essential accoutrement for him to be able to leave the house, when it reality you can find many recent promotional photos of Marty with a naked neck. Or perhaps he’s a dandy, you know, one of those types of dandies, despite having married Johnny Cash’s daughter once, and currently being married to Country Music Hall of Famer Connie Smith. Did he injure his neck? Is he concealing some big scar? Perhaps he tried to hang himself and is trying to disguise the embarrassing evidence (one of the most ridiculous accusations I’ve seen). Oh but that hasn’t stopped the questions, the concerns, and sometimes even the accusations concerning Marty’s scarves, and what they might be hiding, literally or figuratively. Why? Because despite all of the questions and consternation about Marty Stuart’s fluffy adornments, the answer to his scarf fetish should be quite obvious to all students of traditional country music, and Marty Stuart listeners especially. In fact I would be fairly embarrassed to bring up the subject matter to him even if the opportunity presented itself. No, I’ve not discussed the matter with Marty himself. Find more information at would think there would be much more important business to attend to in the lives of country music fans than to worry about what clothing accessories Marty Stuart chooses to adorn his wardrobe with, but you may not find a another topic of more intrigue or discussion amongst some country listeners than why Marty decides to indulge in neck finery as part of his public fashion. The show, which will also include Bill Anderson, Terri Clark, Carly Pearce, Vince Gill, Chris Janson, Jeannie Seely, The Gatlin Brothers and Chris Young, among others, will take place on October 30. Both Smith and Stuart will be part of the Grand Ole Opry’s upcoming star-studded celebration, honoring its 5000th Saturday night broadcast. Smith became a member of the Grand Ole Opry in 1965, 27 years before Stuart joined the Opry. “She says, ‘Well, five minutes of the right thing’s a whole lot better than 50 years of the wrong thing,'” Stuart remembers. It was Stuart’s mom who, not surprisingly, gave him the advice he needed to pursue a relationship with Smith. But I finally did what I ultimately have done many times in my life: gone to my greatest consultant who’s my mama Hilda Stuart. “I wrote down the pros and cons on a piece of paper,” Stuart recounts. Stuart knew he was falling for Smith, but was intimidated by their significant age difference. “We started writing songs and here comes these love songs and hearing Connie Smith sing them was like, ‘Oh my God.’ My heart started flipping out and I couldn’t believe it.” Stuart and Smith did indeed ultimately meet years later, in a writing session, where they wrote with songwriting legend Harlan Howard, and sparks instantly flew. I got her autograph, I met some of the guys in the band and all the way home I told my mom I was going to marry Connie Smith some day.” “I went tearing through the house, ‘Connie Smith is coming to town.’ At the end of the concert, my sister, Jennifer and I, we got our picture made with Connie. “Connie was the act of 1970, and she was my mom’s favorite singer,” Stuart shares. Stuart was a fan of Smith’s long before he fell in love with her, predicting even back then that she would one day be his wife. And that’s what I remember in meeting him.” “I thought, ‘He’s talking like an adult, like he’s been in the business for years.’ That really surprised me. “I remember this kid coming up on stage talking … about his steel and different things,” she continues. “I met him when he was 11,” Smith recalls to Apple Music Country’s Southern Accents Radio with Dave Cobb, adding that they met at a Choctaw Indian fair in Stuart’s hometown of Philadelphia, Mississippi. The two singers first met when Stuart was just a child, but even then he left an impression on Smith, in spite of their 17-year age gap. Marty Stuart and Connie Smith have been married 24 years, a perhaps unlikely pairing that has stood the test of time.