Marcus King Sobers Up and Rocks Out

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🗓️ 10 December 2025

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Marcus King is helping revive guitar-rock in country music, while also working on himself. The South Carolina guitar-slinger joins us in the Nashville Now cabin to talk about getting sober (an Ozzy Osbourne quote inspired him), his new album Darling Blue, and the time he was caught sneaking into a club to give Warren Haynes a demo tape. King also gets candid about the response to his wife Briley King’s cover of “The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia.” It’s a conversation of Southern rock, self-awareness, and soul searching. Country is Here…Nashville is Now. Check out our Hear Now playlist on Spotify, updated weekly. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:52.9	Jack one, two. Welcome to Rolling Stones Nashville Now.
0:58.9	I'm your host, Senior Music Editor Rolling Stone, Joseph Hudak.
1:03.0	Country is here.
1:04.2	Nashville is now.
1:05.8	We have Marcus King in the Nashville cabin with us today.
1:09.5	He comes here in the coolest sports car you have seen, vintage retro.
1:15.1	Very cool.
1:15.7	We're very grateful to have Marcus.
1:17.5	He is one of the bright spots in Americana and country, but rock and roll.
1:25.0	And that's kind of like what we want to talk about today. There is a
1:28.3	resurgence of guitar rock in country music. I think you've really seen it recently, particularly
1:34.8	on the CMA Awards. You saw Red Clay Strays. Man, it was just a rock and roll performance of their
1:39.8	song People Haten. Chris Stapleton, of course, has been shredding for a long time. On the
1:45.2	CMAs, he did bad as I used to be. Luke Combs back in the saddle, his latest single is,
1:51.9	he's got that one turned up to 11. I dig it. And then you got Marcus. And Marcus has been,
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