Marty Stuart ~ Similar Artists

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Dwight Yoakam - 100% match to Marty Stuart

23 October 1956, Pikeville, Kentucky, USA. Much of Yoakam's hip honky tonk music paved the way for rock audiences accepting country music in the 90s. A singer-songwriter with an early love of the honky-tonk country music of Buck Owens and Lefty Frizzell, he has always shown a... Read more

Ricky Skaggs - 96% match to Marty Stuart

Ricky Lee Skaggs, 18 July 1954, Brushey Creek, near Cordell, Kentucky, USA. His father, Hobert, was a welder, who enjoyed playing the guitar and singing gospel songs with Skaggs' mother, Dorothy. Skaggs later recorded one of her songs, "All I Ever Loved Was You". Hobert returned... Read more

Vince Gill - 85% match to Marty Stuart

Vincent Grant Gill, 12 April 1957, Norman, Oklahoma, USA. Gill's father, a lawyer who played in a part-time country band, encouraged his son to have a career in country music. While still at school, Gill joined the bluegrass group Mountain Smoke. He moved to Louisville in 1975... Read more

Aaron Tippin - 61% match to Marty Stuart

3 July 1958, Pensacola, Florida, USA. Tippin was raised in South Carolina and was granted a pilot's licence when he was 15. At that time he wanted to be an airline pilot but circumstances changed when he lost his job in the aircraft industry and his marriage broke up, and when... Read more

Doug Stone - 57% match to Marty Stuart

Douglas Jackson Brooks 19 June 1956, Newnan, Georgia, USA. Stone, the product of a broken home, was encouraged to become a musician by his mother, although he lived with his father following the break up. She taught him to play guitar and had put him onstage by the age of 7,... Read more

Mark Chesnutt - 56% match to Marty Stuart

6 September 1963, Beaumont, Texas, USA. His father, Bob Chesnutt, was a singer who, although failing to find success in Nashville in the mid-60s, was popular in Texas; however, he quit music in favour of the used-car business, because he wanted to be with his family. It is,... Read more

Travis Tritt - 56% match to Marty Stuart

James Travis Tritt, 9 February 1963, Marietta, Georgia, USA. Tritt started writing songs and playing honky tonks and beer joints when he was about 14 years old. One of his songs is called "Son Of The New South", and his US country hit "Put Some Drive Into Your Country" includes... Read more

Billy Dean - 55% match to Marty Stuart

William Harold Dean Jnr., 2 April 1962, Quincy, Florida, USA. Dean was raised in a farming community and played in his father's part-time country band. He accumulated many influences, including James Taylor and Dan Fogelberg, and he sang "My Way" at his graduation ceremony. He... Read more

Brooks & Dunn - 55% match to Marty Stuart

This hugely successful country duo comprises Kix Brooks (Leon Eric Brooks, 12 May 1955, Shreveport, Louisiana, USA) and Ronnie Gene Dunn (b. 1 June 1953, Coleman, Texas, USA). As an adolescent, Brooks lived close to Johnny Horton and sang with Horton's daughter. He moved to... Read more

Clint Black - 54% match to Marty Stuart

4 February 1962, Long Branch, New Jersey, USA. Black was born in New Jersey when his father was working there, but the family soon headed back to their home of Houston, Texas. Black was playing the harmonica at the age of 13 and the guitar at 15. He spent several years playing... Read more