Press Photos
The Marty Stuart Collection: Press Photos
Downloadable Artifact Photos
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Marty Stuart’s essay
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This essay was written by an 11-year-old Marty Stuart for a school assignment “What I Want to Be in Life.”
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Jimmie Rodgers’ leather satchel
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Two days after his final RCA Victor recording session, Rodgers died in New York on May 26, 1933. This satchel, which contained his manuscripts from the sessions, was placed in the casket with Rodgers’s body and shipped by train back to his home in Meridian, Mississippi.
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Hank Williams’ song manuscript
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Original two-page, handwritten (with his corrections) song manuscript for Williams’ “I Saw the Light” from 1947.
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Hank Williams’ shirt
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Lavender western shirt, with white lamb fringe, rhinestones, and Hank Williams’s initials, designed for him by Nudie Cohn at Nudie’s Rodeo Tailors, c. 1951
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Dolly Parton’s dress
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Parton wore this rhinestone-embellished dress on “The Porter Wagoner Show,” c. 1970. The dress was made by Nashville seamstress Lucy Adams, who began designing exclusively for Parton in the late 1960s.
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Johnny Cash’s suit
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Cash’s first black stage suit, c. 1955.
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Johnny Cash’s guitar
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Cash’s custom Gibson 1958 J-200 acoustic guitar, with his name inlaid in mother-of-pearl on the fingerboard. Cash used the guitar to write “I Still Miss Someone,” “Don’t Take Your Guns to Town,” “Five Feet High and Rising,” and other songs.
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Patsy Cline’s outfit
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Patsy Cline’s mother, Hilda Hensley, designed and sewed this two-piece cowgirl outfit for her in the 1950s, when fancy western-style stage wear was very popular with country music performers.
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Patsy Cline’s boots
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This pair of boots was owned and worn by Patsy Cline.
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Luther Perkins’ guitar
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A founding member of Johnny Cash’s backing band the Tennessee Two (later the Tennessee Three) guitarist Perkins helped define Cash’s sound with his muted picking style. Perkins played this 1963 sunburst Fender Jaguar electric guitar on Cash’s classic recording of “Ring of Fire.”
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Marty Stuart’s jacket
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This rhinestone-covered jacket — further enhanced with embroidered western scenes and playing cards — was made for Marty Stuart by his good friend, western-wear designer Manuel Cuevas. Stuart wore the jacket in the 1991 music video for his Top Five country hit “Tempted.”
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Charley Pride’s guitar
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Pride used this 1967 Fender Coronado II hollow-body electric guitar, with distinctive “Antigua” sunburst finish, extensively in the 1960s and ’70s.
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Glen Campbell’s guitar
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Campbell used this 1966 Mosrite Dobro D-100 Californian acoustic-electric resonator guitar at recording sessions with the Los Angeles studio musicians known as the “Wrecking Crew,” as well as at concerts and TV appearances, c. 1967. The instrument was hand built for Campbell by guitar maker Semie Mosley, who acquired the rights to the Dobro name in the mid-1960s.
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Bob Dylan’s hat
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Dylan performed in this wide-brimmed fedora during his Rolling Thunder Revue concert tour in 1975. Western-wear designer and tailor Manuel Cuevas embellished the hat with a studded leather belt buckle hatband, faux flowers and a feather.
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George Jones’ boots
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Nudie’s Rodeo Tailors made these boots for Jones, c. 1969. When Jones gave them to Marty Stuart in 1987, the boots “were in perfect condition,” recalls Stuart. “They were the nicest boots I’d ever owned.” By the end of ’87, which Stuart called the roughest year of his life, the boots “were a perfect reflection of me, worn out.”
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George Jones’ guitar
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Jones had his 1957 Martin D-28 customized with unique, mother-of-pearl inlays on the fingerboard and his name at the 19th fret.
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Pops Staples’ guitar
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This 1970 Fender Telecaster, with a rosewood body, was owned and used by Pop Staples, the patriarch and a member of gospel and R&B group the Staples Singers. He played this instrument in the film “The Last Waltz,” performing “The Weight” with the Staples Singers and the Band at the final performance by the original lineup of the rock group.