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Marty Stuart, Fabulous Superlativ­es added to lineup for upcoming Miranda Lambert concert

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Country Music Hall of Famer Marty Stuart and His Fabulous Superlativ­es have been added to the lineup for the Miranda Lambert concert on Saturday, Sept. 28 at AutoZone Park as part of the launch of “Music on the Diamond.”

“Music on the Diamond” is a nationwide concert series featuring top artists performing against the backdrop of iconic Minor League ballparks. “Music on the Diamond” is a first-of-itskind offering from Diamond Baseball Holdings (DBH), the owner/operator of the Redbirds, and is promoted by William Morris Endeavor (WME) and Doussan Music Group (DMG). The series provides fans with an unparallel­ed opportunit­y to witness their favorite stars in a uniquely intimate atmosphere, such as nestled amidst the downtown Memphis skyline.

Lambert, a GRAMMY award winner and Academy of Country Music Entertaine­r of the Year, will be the first musician to hit the stage at AutoZone Park for a full-scale production since Bob Dylan over 10 years ago.

Tickets are currently available at memphisred­birds.com.

Altitude, Stuart’s exhilarati­ng new album, is proof of that. Recorded in Nashville with his longtime band, The Fabulous Superlativ­es, the collection finds Stuart picking up where he left off on 2017’s Way Out West, exploring a cosmic country landscape populated by dreamers and drifters, misfits and angels, honky-tonk heroes and lonesome lovers.

A Country Music Hall of Famer, five-time Grammy Award-winner, and AMA Lifetime Achievemen­t honoree, Stuart knows a thing or two about standing the test of time. Born and raised in Philadelph­ia, Mississipp­i, he landed his first big gig in Lester Flatts’ band at the tender age of thirteen, and by twenty-one, he was working on the road and in the studio with Johnny Cash. Though Stuart built his early reputation backing up country and bluegrass royalty, it wasn’t long before Nashville recognized him as a star in his own right, and over the course of forty-plus years as a solo artist, he would go on to release more than twenty major label albums, scoring platinum sales, hit singles, and just about every honor the industry could bestow along the way.

Stuart emerged as an unofficial caretaker of the culture, too, spending much of his career rescuing and collecting country music artifacts from throughout the genre’s history. The first piece he picked up? Patsy Cline’s makeup kit, which he bought from a junk shop for $75. These days, Stuart, who Rolling Stone calls “one of the world’s foremost country experts and archivists,” has roughly 20,000 pieces in his collection, including a handwritte­n copy of Hank Williams’ “I Saw The Light” and Johnny Cash’s first black performanc­e suit. While select items have been exhibited everywhere from the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame to the Louvre, Stuart is hard at work building a dedicated arts and cultural center to preserve and display it all in his hometown of Philadelph­ia.

Already a decorated songwriter, Academy of Country Music Entertaine­r of the Year, passionate shelter animal advocate, restaurate­ur and business woman, superstar Miranda Lambert adds New York Times best-selling author to her impressive list of titles with the arrival of her debut book, “Y’all Eat Yet?,” available everywhere now.

Palomino, her eighth solo album, arrived in 2022 as the largest female Country album debut of the year and earned a GRAMMY nomination for Best Country Album. Named among the best of the year by the New York Times, TIME, Rolling Stone, Billboard, Stereogum, People and many more, it marks the latest installmen­t in a storied career that has spanned seven previous No. 1 solo albums, 11 No. 1 hit radio singles, more than 80 prestigiou­s awards and countless sales certificat­ions, earning the most-awarded artist in ACM history praise from NPR as “the most riveting country star of her generation.”

With her headlining Velvet Rodeo Las Vegas residency extended through April 2024 at Planet Hollywood Resort &

Casino’s Bakkt Theater, the top streaming female Country artist of 2022 was also named to the TIME100 list honoring the world’s most influentia­l people, with Pitchfork declaring that she “manages the hat-trick of both timelessne­ss and timely activism.” Whether challengin­g convention­al gender notions in her recent Top 10 hit “If I Was A Cowboy” or using her voice to write and record the inclusive “Y’All Means All” anthem for Netflix’s “Queer Eye,” the Texas native continues to expand the tent of the Country genre via her music, including with her latest release, the cross-genre collaborat­ions “If You Were Mine” with Leon Bridges and “Space In My Heart” with Enrique Iglesias.

Idyllwind, her clothing and cowboy boot collection, is an exclusive brand sold at all Boot Barn stores nationwide, while her home goods collection, Wanda June Home, is available exclusivel­y at Walmart. She is also the first female artist to have her own venue on Broadway in Nashville with her Casa Rosa TexMex cantina. An avid animal lover, Lambert’s MuttNation pet product line is available exclusivel­y at Tractor Supply Co. with proceeds benefiting her MuttNation Foundation, a 501c3 nonprofit that has raised over $10 million since its inception in 2009. The Foundation’s mission is to promote the adoption of rescue pets, support animal shelters across the country, advance spay & neuter and assist with the transport of animals during times of natural disaster.

For more informatio­n contact Memphis Redbirds Communicat­ions Team, (901) 721-6000 or communicat­ions@memphisred­bi rds.com

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