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Martin "Backpacker" 6-string acoustic guitar, serial # 46. 683, with spruce body and chrome tuning pegs. Guitar inscribed on face "Better Love Next Time', Your 3-Time Loser Friend, Johnny Christopher'. Guitar approximately 35.25" long. Accompanied by a group photograph from the 1983 BMI Country Awards held in Nashville, TN featuring such country music stars and executives as Willie Nelson, Tania Tucker, David Allen Coe, Bob Gordy, Deborah Carrigan, Phil Graham, Johnny Christopher, and Teddy Gentry. Framed photo measures 19.25" x 22.25". Note: Johnny Christopher is a guitarist and Grammy Award winning songwriter. He co-wrote "Always On My Mind" along with Mark James and Wayne Carson Thompson, which won a "Best Country Song" Grammy in 1982 as performed by Willy Nelson.


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Date:
2015-02-08

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