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This One's Gonna Hurt You

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One of the best country Cd's ever made. So good infact, it sort of ruined Marty's recording career, as he will never be able to top this one. Classic country music. I generally can't stand Travis Tritt, but EVEN he sounds good here. I can't believe this didn't sell millions. This was the climax of the "Hillbilly Rock" chapter of Marty's career. Unfortunatly he is still trying to write new pages in that book... Lets move on...

If you like honky tonk music you will love this cd. I have
had it for a while and I still listen to it every day. Marty
is the most under rated guitar player in the world, He has
a way with the telecaster that is just awsome. My favorite song
on the whole cd is Honky tonk crowd, I have to hear it every day.
This is TRUE country music at its best.

Too many CD's on Amazon get 5-star ratings because dedicated fans write favorable reviews.
This one deserves 5 stars and more.
Marty Stuart, a traditional Country historian, musician and philosopher came up with a CD that touched on but did not rip off all the best of the country genres. He even went as far as to have a contemporary star (Travis Tritt) appear for the title tune and back that up with a rousing duet with former father-in-law Johnny Cash on another, Doin' My Time. You've got to hear Marty's band drop the octave for The Man In Black on this tune, it's classic.
This CD rocks and rolls, it has that back-country spirit, ballads, hard-drivin' step-out guitars playing honky-tonk riffs, you name it. Unfortunately, since Marty declines to wear a hat his imprint in country music is still overshadowed by the Hat Acts and you know who I mean. But they don't have more talent, they don't play a guitar/Dobro/mandolin better, and they don't have an all-good-songs CD like this, either. He sure made me a part of his "Honky-Tonk Crowd", I'll tell you. On the other hand, like George Harrison, topping this one is never gonna be easy! Buy this CD and play it for your "don't-like-country-music" friends....

This is Marty's best work (Pre "The Pilgrim". Now That's Country is pure Marty. A little rockabilly, a little country. His guitar sounds and ability to rock his country sets him apart from the pack. His duet with Travis Tritt is wonderful fun. Just Between You and Me is nice and easy to listen to. Marty's voice is sweet and sincere. Hey Baby is also pure Marty at his best. Other than "The Pilgrim" this is Marty's best work.

This album needs to be included when discussing the top country albums of all times.....definately one of the top 5 of the '90's. With the exception of "The Pilgrim", this is Marty's finest album. While "The Pilgrim" is by far his best work, it is a concept album much like an opera. "This One's Gonna Hurt You" is just plain, straight forward, hardcore country/honkytonk/hillbilly music, with no apologies. Everyone knows that Marty is one of the premiere guitarists (or any stringed instrument, for that matter), but this album showcases his voice. The opening number "Me & Hank...." is an oration of a conversation backed by the finest Tennessee-style blues, but at it's end, simply breaks into a country standard that will blow you away (High on a Mountain Top). Them Travis Tritt is introduced to sing the title track with Marty; here was a great duet. The album has a few rockabilly/blues based tunes, but the highlights remain the true-blue hillbilly sounds, such as Marty's rendition of Charley Pride's (and Dolly & Porter's) "Just Between You & Me". "Hey Baby" is a masterpiece, plain & simple, yet recalls the psychobilly sound of the late '60's. An appearance by Johnny Cash in "Doin' My Time" is also included, and folks, if Marty's guitar work on this Cash standard doesn't torment your brain, you are already dead. The last great song on this album (and they're all good) is "The King of Dixie"; Marty's rocking tribute to Hank. Yes, Country Music's Golden Era was indeed the 50's-60's, but thanks to folks like Dwight and Marty, we can have the modern "Classics"....and this is a Classic album.

i'm kinda new to marty stuart and country music in general, but this is really neat stuff. i've listened to it three, maybe four times in a row now and it still has my head ringing like somebody whacked me with a two-by-four. his guitar work is great and the concept of the album is sheer genius. although, when i go to heaven, i won't be looking up hank williams. pickup on it! it rocks, like your favorite bar jukebox right there in your house. i know this one will be in the 50+ disc player for the entire summer season for barbques and evening entertainment.

Been looking for this CD for years. I LOVE THIS ALBUM/CD. Product came in good condition & plays excellent. LOVE IT!

I've owned this cd since it came out in 1992. I still listen to it on a regular basis. Nothing I can say about this cd can come close to explaining its brilliance.

I've always viewed this cd as a concept album, and given what Marty Stuart did with "Pilgrim," I'm convinced this should be viewed as a concept album. The first track opens with a dream where Marty meets Hank Williams in "hillbilly heaven." As the two part ways, Hank gets in his cadillac, and Marty says "Right here is what he said before he shut that door."

The cd then rips into "High on a Mountaintop." Although there are electric guitars, giving the song a contemporary country sound, the banjo and fiddle sound like a modern version of something straight out Hank Williams' catalog. The lyrics are sung from the perspective of Hank Williams, in heaven: "As I look at the valleys down below, they are green, just as far as I can see. As my memory returns, oh how my heart it yearns for you and the days that used to be." The most emphasized line in the song is "I wonder if you ever think of me."

The next song is a duet with Travis Tritt, which was the big hit off of this cd. There are not loud electric guitars, as a steel guitar, a fiddle, and a piano carry the melodies. This really stood out on country radio at the time because harken back to a more old-fashioned sound, more prevalent during Hank's era than today. This song, as well as "Just Between You and Me," and "Doin My Time," which features Johnny Cash, sound like something out of a different generation. Not only are they good by today's standards, they're as good as any classic country. Johnny Cash comes in singing "You can hear my hammer, you can hear my song. Gonna swing it like John Henry all day long" and the song is instantly classic. Really this song is as good as anything Cash put out in the last 20 years of his life, maybe the best.

"Down Home," "Now That's Country," and "Honky Tonk Crowd" are honky tonk at its best. The lyrics fit right in with the Hank Williams theme, like: "When I was a baby, my sweet momma told me go around this world and see all that you can see. find a good woman get a job and settle down, but i could not stay away from the lights of town. I had to go where the music is loud, i fell in with a honky tonk crowd." "The King of Dixie," is a clear nod to Hank Williams. The first verse is about Elvis, while the second is about Hank. The cd ends with Marty's voice after the last track saying "and then I woke up." This cd should be seen as Marty Stuart's trip to hillbilly heaven, his encounter with the Hank, and his spin on classic country.

Before Marty Stuart was a solo artist, he was a young man who played with the best bluegrass musicians in the world. Musically speaking, this cd has some of the best steel guitar you've heard in the last 30+ years. This cd is as close to perfect as it can be. The idea behind it is inspired and brilliant, the music is executed perfectly by expert musicians, the lyrics are on point. While there are radio friendly songs on here, there aren't any "commercial" sounding country sounds on here. Its straight honky tonk-country-bluegrass at its best. PICK THIS UP!!!!

To Imfeds and others who think Marty is underrated and overlooked. It's true. I'd heard of him over the years, but had no reason to go buying CDs by him because I hadn't heard anything by him except alongside Flatt & Scruggs (didn't even know he was playing with them) and a few other places I had seen him. Of course Flatt & Scruggs were the 'stars' of their act, but now and then they would highlight Marty, but I didn't see it much. Our local radio station (one) that plays what they call "country" freed up a button on my radio years ago. I now have that button tuned to PBR. I'd rather listen to them read me stories while I'm driving than to hear that "country" of today. Of course that's when I don't have a CD handy in the 'trac. (That's what I call my Sportrac. My son-in-law argues with me that it isn't a truck, and I say it isn't a car, therefore, I call it my 'trac) Now I'm in here on the computer today on AMAZON hunting good CDs by Marty. I have just one that I bought years ago, which didn't impress me all of that much, but had no idea he had so many out and that they were all so good. I'm really here as a direct result of his hosting the show honoring Porter Wagoner and making the album with Porter this year. If there is any legitimacy left in these "awards" events, Marty Stuart should be honored with very many of them this coming year. They ought to bring out 9/10(ths) of what I've been sampling here and reissue them, or have the judges all listen to them everyone. He is just awesome.
And these 'awards shows' should not be just a popularity contest for the latest guy in tight jeans and girls with tight jeans AND big bazoozz hanging out and over and all of them with the strongest lungs. Obvioiusly, they were slapped pretty hard when they were born. I think The Grand Ole Opry ought to go back to their very strict 'COUNTRY MUSIC' standards that were so well documented and observed and honored in the past. They could bring on one of those screaming meemies once in a while just to have a "guest" act. I'm a fool. I know it'll never happen. We real country music lovers better hang on to our old LP's and have someone transfer them to CDs for us before we get them all scratched up.