This One's Gonna Hurt You - Marty Stuart (Cassette)

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Track Listing
1. Me & Hank & Jumpin' Jack Flash
2. High on the Mountain Top
3. This One's Gonna Hurt You (For a Long, Long Time) (With Travis Tritt)
4. Down Home
5. Just Between You and Me
6. Hey Baby
7. Doin' My Time (With Johnny Cash)
8. Now That's Country
9. King of Dixie, The
10. Honky Tonk Crowd

Details
Contributing Artists:	Johnny Cash, Travis Tritt
Producer:	Richard Bennett, Tony Brown
Distributor:	Universal Distribution
Recording Type:	Studio
Recording Mode:	Stereo
SPAR Code:	DDD

Album Notes
Personnel: Marty Stuart (vocals, guitar, mandolin); Richard Bennett (guitar, mandolin, percussion); Paul Franklin, Paul Kennerley, Brad Davis, John Hughey (guitar); Stuart Duncan (fiddle); Uncle Josh Graves (dobro); John Barlow Jarvis (piano, organ); Joan Besen (piano); Carl Marsh (Fairlight, organ); Flip Anderson (synthesizer); Larry Marrs (bass); Harry Stinson, John Sturdivant Jr. (drums); Sam Bacco (tympani, vibes, chimes, percussion).
Recorded at Big Javelina Studios, Nashville, Tennessee.
When Marty Stuart cut This One's Gonna Hurt You in 1991 with producers Richard Bennett and Tony Brown, he opened it with a modern country equivalent of what is now de rigueur in the hip-hop community: a skit that became a song. The disembodied voice of Hank Williams comes out of the ether before Stuart's does; a trippy synthesizer plays in the foreground; and clapping, cheering audiences are heard between the two. But this isn't the skit; it's the track. "Me & Hank & Jumpin' Jack Flash" offers a weird, acid cowboy tale of the two meeting in outer space and having a conversation about everything from the lineage of country to rock & roll -- Marty happens to dig both and was sure Hank would've dug the Rolling Stones as well. It's a bizarre way to open a contemporary country record, but given Stuart's maverick nature, it's utterly understandable and even charming the first three or four times you hear it. After that it's best to start on track two, "High on a Mountain Top," a tough, rockin', high lonesome honky tonk tune with blazing guitars, whining fiddles (courtesy of Stuart Duncan), and a chorus of backing vocalists including Ashley Cleveland and Pam Tillis. The set gets even better from here, as evidenced by the title track, a wonderful midtempo ballad done in duet with Travis Tritt, and by Jimmie Skinner's "Doin' My Time," with a guest appearance by then father-in-law Johnny Cash. The rest walks from the very traditional reading of Cowboy Jack Clement's beer weeper "Just Between You and Me" to rockabilly on "Down Home" and jangling Rickenbacker country-pop on "Hey Baby" (both written by Paul Kennerley), another straight rocking tribute to Williams on a cover of Allen Shamblin's "The King of Dixie," and Stuart's own spunky, hard country "Honky Tonk Crowd," which closes the set. Of his early records, This One's Gonna Hurt You is truly inspired and hungry; it's the very best from the period. Even in the 21st century, it endures as a watermark for the music at the time and as one of Stuart's finest moments in a career full of great ones. ~ Thom Jurek

Editorial Reviews
3.5 Stars - Good Plus - ..a lesson in traditional country sounds...Stuart's passion for the music is this album's overriding message--and he's one country picker who's got the goods to make his passion yours..
Rolling Stone (10/01/1992)

..the record he was born to make...Stuart achieves a nearly flawless integration of Southern rock, pop, bluegrass, blues, honky-tonk, rockabilly, and boogie...rocks like a roadhouse.. - Rating: A
Entertainment Weekly (07/24/1992)