Country Music Hall of Famer, five-time Grammy-winner, and AMA LifetimeAchievement honoree Marty Stuart picks up where he left off onAltitude,his first newalbum in five years, exploring a cosmic country landscape populated by dreamers anddrifters, misfits and angels, honky-tonk heroes and lonesome lovers. There’s a desertflare to the music here, a sweeping, spacious feel that conjures up wide-open horizonsand endless stretches of two-lane highway, and the production is raw and cinematic tomatch, tipping its cap both to Bakersfield and Laurel Canyon as it balances jangle andtwang in equal measure. While it would be easy for an artist as accomplished as Stuartto rest on his laurels,Altitudeinstead showcases the work of a searcher with aninsatiable appetite for growth and reflection, one whose ambition, much like his keenwit and rich imagination, only seems to grow with each and every release.Born and raised in Philadelphia, MS, Stuart got his start in bluegrass legend LesterFlatts’ band at the tender age of thirteen, and by twenty-one, he was working in thestudio and on the road with Johnny Cash. Though Stuart built his early reputationbacking up royalty, it wasn’t long before Nashville recognized him as a star in his ownright, and over the course of forty-plus years as a solo artist, he would go on torelease more than twenty major label albums, scoring platinum sales, hit singles, andjust about every honor the industry could bestow along the way.