"I said it's gonna be a high price because you're sleeping with the stars," he laughs. I'm gonna charge you for coming to the museum.' "I said to them on the Sunday, 'I've got bad news for you guys. The musos all stayed a few nights in the museum, Barry says. All this stuff gets shoved around to the next room. "Music keeps you young. We have some jams in here. However, Judy has encouraged him to take up the steel guitar, which is held lap-down and played by moving a steel bar against plucked strings.īarry's musical talent led the 81-year-old to play festivals and join the local country music club. However, 20 years ago he developed arthritis, forcing him to leave his guitar-strumming days in the dust. The collection has grown to such a size, Barry has to turn people away that want to donate goods.īarry is also a keen musician. It's hard for Barry to pick a favourite out of the collection, but if he had to, it may be the signed photos of Merle Haggard and Willie Nelson. And it was like. remember Elvis and all the screaming teenagers used to scream and yell? It was just like that and you couldn't get near him." I met him at the Country Music Hall of Fame. "Remember Randy Travis? He was so hot in 1986. "I've got Glen Campbell, Ray Charles, Willie Nelson. Then he also started writing to artists in America and would receive photos that way - and so the collection began. Barry and Judy Skinner have owned the museum, which is about 30 kilometres from Westport, for 20 years.īarry, a musician and disc jockey, says he's always been a collector and fan of the music genre and would once stand in line for photos to be signed by his favourite artists.
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