![]() ![]() ![]() While Stuart was interested in the ’54 Strat and the Byrds stuff, he had another Clarence White artefact on his mind… “I said, ‘Is the pull-string here?’ She said, ‘That’s what you really want to see…’ and I said ‘Yep!’ She opened the case and there was like a string missing off it and I said ‘Oh man, look at that. “I drove up to her home in Kentucky and she wanted to sell a 1954 Stratocaster that they had used as a parts guitar for Clarence’s pull-string, and she wanted to sell some Nudie suits and some Byrds paraphernalia that had belonged to Clarence. Built in collaboration with fellow Byrd Gene Parsons, the Tele is the first ever ‘pull-string’ or B-Bender guitar. An archivist and collector of country music relics, he took possession of late Kentucky Colonels and Byrds guitarist Clarence White’s heavily-modified 50s Telecaster in the early 80s. Most recently, Stuart has been celebrating the release of his new concept album Way Out West, made flesh with his band the Fabulous Superlatives, and produced by Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers guitarist Mike Campbell.Īnd, what of that “greatest Telecaster in the world” claim? Marty Stuart has long been known as ‘The Keeper of The Flame’ of real country music. It was a personal high in a life that professionally saw him join country guitarist and mandolinist Lester Flatt’s band at the age of 14, and later become Johnny Cash’s right hand man, co-composing The Man In Black’s final song Hangman. The “girl of his dreams” is country icon Connie Smith, the woman Stuart fell in love with when he was just 12 years old, and later married.
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