This could be a brilliant tourism stroke for Tulsa if it's true. With Dylan's archives already here, the Guthrie Center, and OK Pop one has to wonder what this could mean in bringing other archives to the foot of the GKFF to be centered in Tulsa. Mr. Kaiser continues to give gifts to Tulsa in amazing ways.
Johnny Cash archives could follow Bob Dylan's to Tulsa
By Michael Overall Tulsa World48 min ago
With the Bob Dylan archives already here, the heirs of Johnny Cash are reportedly negotiating to make Tulsa the home of the country music legend’s archives as well.
Adding Cash to the collection could be part of billionaire George Kaiser's plan to "make Tulsa the headquarters of Americana music," according to a report Thursday in the Washington Post.
The George Kaiser Family Foundation paid an undisclosed amount of money for the Dylan archives in 2016, but published estimates put the number between $15 million and $20 million. The Cash archives would presumably be worth millions too.
A spokeswoman for the Dylan archives declined to comment Thursday.
Housed in a climate-controlled vault at the Helmerich Center for American Research at the Gilcrease Museum, the Dylan archives include more than 6,000 objects ranging from leather jackets to hand-written lyrics, along with tens of thousands of digitized audio and video clips.
Most of the archives will remain at Gilcrease, where access is tightly restricted to researchers. But some highlights of the collection will eventually move to a Bob Dylan Center in downtown Tulsa, similar to the Woody Guthrie Center that was opened by the Kaiser Foundation in 2013.
The Cash archives would likely receive a similar treatment. A frequent collaborator with Dylan, Cash died in 2003 at age 71.
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