Culver City, CA: Tri-Star [TriStar] Pictures, 1984. Revised Final script and shooting schedule for the 1984 film. Copy belonging to an uncredited crew member, with his holograph annotations throughout in blue ink. Doc Jenkins (Willie Nelson) is an aspiring singer/songwriter whose ambition is thwarted by a bad contract with a record label. With the help of former singing partner Blackie.....
N.p. N.p., Circa 1970s. Archive of 288 vernacular color photographs of country music acts from the 1970s, housed in a contemporary photo album, with the subject of nearly every photograph identified by holograph ink captions. Occasional additional notations give a date range between 1972-1980 for the photographs, with most being dated 1977-1979. The photographs primarily consist of performers on stage.....
N.p. N.p., Circa 1981. Original oversize treated photograph used as the shooting artwork for the 1981 album. Hinged with a mylar cover and outer cropping labels, as originally constructed. Full provenance available. Composed primarily of outtake material from past recording sessions, the album was a surprise commercial hit for Emmylou Harris, certified Gold in less than a year after its.....
N.p. N.p., 1968. Photograph of musician Johnny Cash's first meeting with starstruck Folsom Prison inmate Glen Sherley on January 13, 1968, struck circa 1990s. The photo was taken shortly after Cash's performances at the penitentiary, captured on the legendary album "Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison." With the stamp and handwritten reference number of photographer Jim Marshall on the verso. As.....
N.p. Seven Arts Pictures, 1966. Collection of 14 vintage studio still photographs from the 1966 film in their original brown paper sleeve stamped "RENFRO VALLEY BARN DANCE A SET 14 Stills." The "Renfro Valley Barn Dance" began as a radio show in Cincinnati in 1937, a labor of love by its creator John Lair. Two years later in 1939 the.....
Nashville: Covington Sales Company, Circa 1960. Vintage promotional Loretta Lynn paddle hand fan with an early WSM photograph of Lynn by Les Leverett (used as one of Lynn's early publicity photographs for Decca Records), the Decca Records arrow logo and "'I'm a Loretta Lynn fan' ..." circa 1960. Lynn debuted on Decca in 1960, the same year the first Loretta.....
Universal City: Universal Pictures, 1980. Vintage photograph of Levon Helm, who played Loretta Lynn's father, coal miner Ted Webb, from the 1980 film. Based on Loretta Lynn's autobiography Loretta Lynn: Coal Miner's Daughter, co-written by George Vecsey. Biography of Loretta Lynn from her poverty-striken upbringing in Butcher Hollow, Kentucky to a Country Music superstar. Nominated for one Academy Award. Shot on location.....
N.p. N.p., 1983. Original program for a January 28, 1983 performance by the Rhys Catham Ensemble, featuring the New York premieres of "Guitar Ring" and "Trilogy." Opening act Ned Sublette Band featured an early version of Sublette's fusion of Cuban and traditional country music which would reach its zenith on 1999's "Cowboy Rhumba." With biographical notes on the musicians, as.....
Los Angeles: Cinerama Releasing, 1973. Collection of 13 vintage studio still photographs and 2 borderless portraits of actors Elayne Heilveil and Rip Torn, all from the release of the 1973 film. Six photographs shown. Please inquire to see others. A ruthless, manipulative country western singer tours the southern nightclub circuit in his big Cadillac, accompanied by a bevy of girlfriends and copious.....
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1976. Revised First Draft script for the 1977 film. Bobby (Peter Fonda) is a struggling musician who gets a chance to showcase some of his songs to country star, Garland Dupree (Callahan). The country star steals Bobby's best song, "Outlaw Blues," and makes it a hit. Receiving no credit, Bobby confronts Garland, and when Garland is.....
N.p. N.p., circa 1973. Vintage promotional flyer/handbill of Hank Williams, Jr. and The Cheatin' Hearts for Sunn Amplifiers "Amps in Action" advertising campaign. Hank Williams, Jr. and The Cheatin' Hearts teamed up for a 1972-1973 tour and released one album, now out of print, the instrumental "Just Pickin'...No Singin'" in 1973. 11 x 8.5 inches. Near Fine, very faint creasing.