Rolling Stone Hear Marty Stuart Cover the 1967 Country Gem ‘Skip a Rope’
Track is the latest off Stuart’s upcoming album ‘Songs I Sing in the Dark’
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The latest offering from Mary Stuart’s upcoming album
Songs I Sing in the Dark is “Skip a Rope,” the 1967 country song first recorded by the singer Henson Cargill.
“The song is a socially conscious treasure from those times, relevant literature with a beat,” Stuart said of “Skip a Rope” in a statement. “I’m still mesmerized by the song. The song’s three-note, plaintive, drone-like intro beckons me inside the walls of the piece and then drops me off at a heart-to-heart level with the message in the song. It’s a message that’s just as relevant today as it was during the song’s heyday when it reigned on the charts. As a matter of fact, ‘Skip a Rope’ stands as an eternally relevant, statesman-like monument of a song.”