![]() The iconic Del McCoury Band appeared on the show. Like its predecessors, his show is a low-production showplace for country music's brightest, including some of the best musicians from the Appalachian South. Otherwise, Stuart left this throwback entertainment model alone. The 1970s split rail sets were replaced with patriotic bunting and pieces of country music memorabilia-vintage stagewear, outsider art in the likeness of Hank Williams, and early instruments, including "the priceless prewar Martin D-45 guitar given him by former boss (and ex-father-in-law) Johnny Cash." In November 1998, The Marty Stuart Show premiered. ![]() Gottsch had built his business on a rural market that mainstream networks had overlooked. He said, "Why doesn’t somebody redo the old Porter Wagoner show? Why doesn’t somebody redo the Flatt & Scruggs show, the Wilburn Brothers show?" RFD-TV has been the one TV outlet consistently airing these classic shows, so eight years ago, Marty Stuart approached the network's founder and president Patrick Gottsch and pitched him. “But, at the same time, it was just great country entertainment.” “It was intimate, it was homespun, it was folk art, it was cultural,” he recently told Bluegrass Unlimited. This is where country music mainstay Marty Stuart found his inspiration. On shows hosted by the likes of Porter Wagner and the Wilburn brothers, they didn't even bother to hide the microphone cords. There were no pyrotechnics, no rhythmic lights, no dancers. In the 1960s and 70s, music legends performed in front of a two camera set-up with faux barn backdrops that were as convincing as sets from a junior high play. Airing on RFD-TV, a farm themed network that is best known for HEE HAW reruns, the show is modeled after country entertainment from an earlier time. ![]() Though I don't know if I can rightly call it contemporary. The Marty Stuart Show just made that list. Usually that's plenty for me, but every now and then, I'll stumble on something contemporary that I'd really like to see. It doesn't have all the latest series, but it offers a quirky mix of TV classics-from Alfred Hitchcock Presentsto Kate & Allie-and offbeat finds like the British sitcom Vicar of Dibley. I have this little box called Roku that streams Web-based shows to my TV. I dropped cable television a year or so ago, and frankly, I don't miss it much.
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