Monday, September 14, 2009
It's over now but I was lucky enough to visit the Gene Autry Museum in June to see Sparkle and Twang - the Marty Stuart collection of country memorabilia. It was terrific, fab, and gob smackingly good I have to say. It wasn't huge but everything was of the highest quality and presented in a great way. The highlight for me (being a guitar player) was seeing Clarence White's telecaster. The original B-Bender Tele. It's a hot-rodded early 50's tele - beat up, with all sorts of routing out the back and new pickups. I'd heard Marty had inherited it - and it's nice that he's showing it...not locking it up behind closed doors. Here it is.....
On the way in to the exhibits were a couple of Marty's jackets. Nice....and a cool mural done by Jon Langford. He of the Mekons and country-punk fame. Not bad for a boy from Wales. He had a few things in the place. All in the same, day of the dead, religious overtones, style. Nice stuff. Shame the Dead aren't around anymore - they could use him to do their album covers.
There was tons of Johnny Cash stuff - his suits, and one of his showier guitars.
After the Clarence guitar, my other favorite item was the western union telegram announcing the death of Hank Williams. Short and sweet. There's some other items in a similar vein - one letter from his record company telling him to stop drinking and get serious.
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