![]() The audience of thousands, ostensibly more of a mainstream country crowd than deep Americana- or jam-band-heads, responded with rapturous applause. King also got a big moment in the spotlight at Nissan Stadium when the Zac Brown Band brought him out as a guest to sing their collaboration “Stubborn Pride” and play an extended guitar solo. “He is a such a great writer, singer, and player.” “He is a modern-day gladiator, bona fide guitar hero, and a seemingly unstoppable force of nature,” Stuart says. ![]() He performed a couple of songs at Marty Stuart’s popular Late Night Jam at the Ryman Auditorium, where King earned a standing ovation for his cathartic rendition of “Wildflowers & Wine,” which showed off the soulful singing and fluid playing that have made an enthusiastic fan out of Stuart. We’re seated at a small table on a covered patio outside King’s basement, where you can find his home studio.Įarlier in the week, King made a couple of appearances amid the hustle of CMA Fest, doing what he’s gotten very good at doing: blowing the minds of the unsuspecting. King is dressed for 25 degrees cooler in a red plaid flannel shirt, black T-shirt, and dark jeans, with his long, light-brown hair spilling out from beneath a backward-turned white baseball cap. King’s home, a rustic, Seventies-era structure near Old Hickory Lake, just outside the city, sits on a wooded, hilly lot that’s accented by Japanese maple trees and a stone water feature that curves around toward the driveway. It’s a surprisingly mild June afternoon in Nashville, which is to say it’s 85 and not so humid that one needs gills to be outside. 26), taps into those feelings, sounding like it’s been animated by the spirit of Kossoff and the gods of hedonistic Seventies rock & roll. But his upcoming album, the guitar-heavy, bruising Young Blood (out Aug. The fear of an untimely demise may have had an unsettling and recalibrating effect on King, who’s got a healthier outlook today. ![]() “I was feeling really paranoid that something was trying to tell me to either slow down or that the end was inevitable and that it was coming pretty soon.” To King, the parallels with his own life were a little too close for comfort. Paul Kossoff, Free’s guitarist, had a legendary appetite for booze and other substances before he died of a pulmonary embolism, at the age of 25. King couldn’t help wondering about what it might mean. “I was in a restaurant and ‘Wishing Well’ would come on, or I was watching the show Devs, with Nick Offerman, and ‘Oh, I Wept’ was the opening song for one episode.” Because everybody knows ‘All Right Now,’” King says. “I would hear Free everywhere, like deep-cut tunes you never really hear. He kept hearing one English rock band’s songs in unlikely places. The singer-guitarist turned 25 last year, and went through a period of profound heartbreak and self-destructive behavior. Marcus King leans back and takes a swig from a can of Coors Light as he talks about having premonitions of his own doom.
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