No Plans of Quitting Any Time Soon

• Published in: Twentieth Century Drifter p. 213
• Main Author: Diekman, Diane
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: United States University of Illinois Press 07.02.2012
• Subjects: Anthropology; Applied anthropology; Applied sciences; Art music; Artists; Arts; Audiences; Automobiles; Behavioral sciences; Consumers; Country music; Cultural anthropology; Cultural history; Cultural institutions; Economic disciplines; Economics; Employment; Engineering; Ground transportation; Ground vehicles; Guitars; Halls of fame; High culture; Historical methodology; Historical musicology; Historiography; History; Human populations; Instrumental music; Keyboard music; Labor economics; Lip vibrated aerophones; Lutes; Manuscript studies; Motor vehicles; Museums; Music; Music genres; Musical instruments; Musical performance; Musicians; Occupations; Performing arts; Persons; Popular music; Population studies; Racing cars; Singers; Singing; Social sciences; Sports museums; String instruments; Transportation; Transportation modes; Trumpets; Western art music; Wind instruments
• ISBN: 0252036328; 9780252036323

“Women just drooled over him,” Wayne Jackson says about Marty. “Sometimes we’d have to sit on the bus for two or three hours while he would be sitting on the side of the stage after a show. He would shake every man’s hand and kiss every woman on the cheek. And they all thought they knew him personally. He was the epitome of how to treat fans. You treat them with love and kindness because they’re the reason you got the Cadillac and the farm. He knew that in a supreme manner.”¹ To improve his shows, Marty made an attempt