Marty – Well, I went crazy and made three records at once, one of which was Souls'Chapel.
Kim – Are you nuts?
Marty – Yeah! Don’t you know that by now? The second one was called Bad Lands and it released in late October. It’s the journey of my Native American record … the people I love up on Pine Ridge, the South Dakota reservation. That’s the poorest county in the United States of America. I’ve been going up there for years. The third album is coming out in February and it’s called Live At The Ryman. It’s a bluegrass record. We’ve got that, we’re touring, we’ve got a TV show in development and six books coming. So there you go.
Kim – If someone else in the entertainment came to you and was trying to get their own life under control, after getting a curve ball, what you would say to them?
Marty – My momma gave me a good piece of advice. “Always a good place to do is be still and listen. Because when there’s nothing to do on the outside, there’s always a lot to do on the inside.” You can take that and then you can put the 10 Commandments in front of you along with the Scripture of Matthew 6:33, “Seek ye first the kingdom of God.” You start by just going back to the basics … getting still, taking your eyes off of the world and just like in the boat, getting your eyes back on the Lord, and things start changing. It’s about getting your priorities right. It always helps to have a great, faith-based church, where the Word is being taught and dispensed in a great and balanced way. Just those little basics of the Christian walk. Sometimes, of course, it’s changing your playground and your playmates. But if you go after God as hard as you go after earthly things, you’ll get results. He says, “Draw close to me and I’ll draw close to you,” right? So there you go.
