Marty Stuart and Connie Smith
Decades would pass before Marty’s prediction would come true. In the video below, Stuart explains that it was during writing sessions that he began to remember his old childhood crush. The pair were writing love songs for her comeback self-titled 1998 album and the feelings started to overtake him.
“This does not line up, I was fighting it and resisting it” Stuart confessed about his emotions at that time. He decided to do the only thing he could think to do, he called his mother for advice.
“I said ‘mama I need to come talk to you’, and I laid out everything I was feeling and the impossibilities and how ridiculous it all looked on paper. She let me get it all out and she said ‘son, 5 minutes of the right thing is better than 50 years of the wrong thing’ and I said ‘case closed’” Stuart recalls in the video.