Strassmann said, " This is your presidential library!" Stuart's collection of cool things, valued at roughly $25 million, has been moved to his hometown of Philadelphia, Mississippi, where he hopes to break ground in 2021 on a permanent display of his treasures. "He was just there to play it and write songs, and it was the coolest thing in the world!" It used to belong to Johnny Cash and before that it belonged to Hank Williams, and now it belongs to Marty!' "And I said, 'Is that Johnny Cash's guitar?' And he said, 'Yep. "And I looked and it had 'Cash' written on it," said Stapleton. Stuart recently toured with five-time Grammy-winner Chris Stapleton, who says one day Stuart showed up one day carrying an old guitar. Stuart also took the last photo of Cash, four days before he died: "He looked like an old president, didn't he?" The singer Johnny Cash in his final days. Stuart has a lot of Johnny Cash, his next-door neighbor (and for a time, his father-in-law, when Stuart was married to Cindy Cash), including the original manuscripts of the songs "San Quentin," and "Folsom Prison Blues." "John gave it to me," he said. Stuart has Cash's first black performance suit. Stuart said, "I'd respectfully submit to all my songwriting brothers and sisters, when you're standing in a museum, a handwritten manuscript has more charm than an email!"Īnd of course his collection of cash. He also has Williams' manuscript of the song "Cold, Cold Heart," signed and dated November 23, 1950. "Well, it's hard not to love Hank Williams!" "You must have a soft spot for certain artists," said Strassmann. "That came from Hank Williams' sister, Irene, her belongings," Stuart said. One suit belonged to the "Hillbilly Shakespeare," Hank Williams. And they just deserved not to be thrown away." A stage costume for Hank Williams. The artists that created these things, everything is hand-stitched, everything is hand-sewn.
It's you: Marty Stuart shows correspondent Mark Strassmann just some of his 20,000-piece country music memorabilia collection. He showed Strassmann some of the outfits worn by the greats. One warehouse of leftover treasures became three warehouses. Well, that's country – I was raised a country child." He bought Cline's case, and started collecting what others had forgotten, or left by the curb.
This is wrong.' And I thought, 'There's a bigger mission here.' And it became my heart to preserve, hang onto, promote and further the culture of country music any way I could." Patsy Cline's travel case. In the early 1980s Stuart was in a junk store in Nashville and found Patsy Cline's train case, on sale for $75.
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