If, like the rest of us, you've long held a burning desire to own a piece of country music history this will likely come as music to your ears.
A set of braids from the noggin of Willie Nelson are among more than 2,000 items being auctioned from the personal collection of the late musician Waylon Jennings. Nelson is said to have donated the braids to his friend in 1983 to show solidarity to Jennings as he struggled to maintain his sobriety.
Also up for grabs at the auction is an Ariel Cyclone motorbike which could once claim Buddy Holly as its owner, given to Jennings after 'the day that music died', the plane crash which claimed the lives of Holly, Richie Valens and the Big Bopper in 1959. Jennings had been a member of Holly's backing band and volunteered his seat on the doomed flight to another passenger.
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Other items for auction include a robe and boxing gloves once owned by Muhammad Ali, Hank Williams' cowboy boots, a letter to Jennings from John Lennon and various handwritten notes and lyric sheets from the pen of Jennings, who died in 2002 after complications from diabetes.
Guernsey's auction house in New York City are holding the auction and it is being held to help raise funds and attention for the Phoenix Children's Hospital in Arizona. A full catalogue will be released towards the end of August, complete with full photographs and descriptions of all the items set for auction.
We suspect that whoever wins the bid for Nelson's follicles will likely be a US citizen - or at least we hope - as transporting the singer's hair internationally would send the airport drug sniffer dogs into a frenzy.
(via Rolling Stone)
