![]() ![]() At the end of his session, Perkins presented him with his guitar. In 1985, he started recording his songs accompanied by Johnny Cash to Memphis and played on the Class of ’55 album that also featured Carl Perkins, Roy Orbison, and Jerry Lee Lewis. ![]() He bought his unique guitar in 1980 from White’s widow. This instrument, either a ’54 or ’56 (different sources) is the original B-Bender guitar, built by White and Gene Parsons around 1967, designed to allow the guitarist to manually raise the guitar’s ‘B’ string one whole step to play pedal steel style licks. He can play just like him.” His guitars include ‘Clarence’, the familiar two-tone Fender Telecaster, once owned by Clarence White. He’s the only one that I’ve ever heard playing guitar, he sounds like Pop. My sisters and I took him to our brother. Mavis Staples explained, his father as “My father was Marty’s godfather. Many of the items in the exhibit came from the private collection of Stuart, including the last portrait of Cash (taken by Stuart four days before Cash died) Yvonne and Mavis Staples gave one of their father’s, “Pops” Staples, guitars to Marty Stuart after Staples’ death. The exhibit highlighted the West Coast impact on country music, featuring items by artists including Johnny Cash, Merle Haggard, Buck Owens and Stuart himself. In 2018, he co-curated, along with the Grammy Museum, in an exhibit at the Woody Guthrie Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma, entitled “Marty Stuart’s Way Out West: A Country Music Odyssey.” His collection of music memorabilia and photography was exhibited at the Tennessee State Museum in 2007 as “Sparkle & Twang: Marty Stuart’s American Musical Odyssey.” The “Sparkle & Twang” exhibit later appeared at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum in Cleveland, Ohio, and at the Arkansas Statehouse Museum. In 2007, Stuart produced country legend Porter Wagoner’s debut album on the predominantly punk label Epitaph Records. In October 2005, he released a concept album, Badlands: Ballads Of The Lakota, which pays tribute to the Sioux culture in what is now South Dakota. Stuart released three critically acclaimed collections on Super latone, Souls’ Chapel, Badlands and Live at the Ryman. ![]() In 2005, he launched a custom of records labeled on Super latone Records, to issue the overlooked Southern Gospel and Roots music recordings. ![]()
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