Artist:Marty Stuart f/Johnny Cash
Song:Doin' My Time
Album:Compadres: An Anthology of Duets
I guess it could be said that Marty Stuart is the renaissance man of country music. This is an album of duets. Some were not previously released. Of course it's not surprising that Stuart would want to record with his musical hero Johnny Cash. He was in Cash's band before going solo. And he even left Columbia Records in the 80s after they unceremoniously dropped Cash. This recording of the prison song Doin' My Time is from Stuart's 1992 album This One's Gonna Hurt You. The title song was a duet with Travis Tritt and was a top ten country hit. Doin' My Time was written by country singer songwriter Jimmie Skinner. He had chart success on Mercury Records in the late 50s. Cash recorded Doin' My time on his 1957 debut album Johnny Cash with his Hot and Blue Guitar. He has recorded the song with his wife June Carter Cash and also Marty Robbins. Of course the Tritt duet is also on this album and so are duets with Merle Haggard, Lester Flatt, Steve Earle, Earl Scruggs, Connie Smith, The Staple Singers, George Jones, B.B. King, Del McCoury and Mavis Staples. They are all from various sources so it's this album is a good place to get them in one place. Stuart compiled it himself. There are two previously unreleased tracks. The first is a duet with Loretta Lynn called Will You Visit Me on Sunday. The second is a cover of The Who's I Can See for Miles with Old Crow Medicine Show. So obviously this is not the typical comp. Here's Marty Stuart and Johnny Cash performing Doin' My Time on the 1995 TNN TV special Marty Party.
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