Tracy Lawrence & Toby Keith HAND-SIGNED backstage Opry Photo 2004

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TRACY LAWRENCE & TOBY KEITH AUTOGRAPHED  OPRY BACKSTAGE PHOTO (2004)
This photo was taken at or about the time Toby Keith won the ACM Award for Entertainer of the Year and the AMA award for Album of the Year.   The photo has never been published and to my knowledge cannot be found anywhere other than in my father's estate,  either signed or unsigned.   A COA with your name will be provided with the estate provenance and autograph comparisons featuring bona fide samples of Tracy's and Toby's authenticated autographs for comparison.
Ken Kittinger (My father)  was the premier gold & platinum awards maker in Nashville for 50 years.  He passed in 2016 just a few months before his best friend,  Merle Haggard.  He and Merle spoke on the phone the night before he passed.  Ken's passing was noted in Billboard Magazine and
Nashville's Music Row's
January 2017 publication of its obituary citing those individuals who passed the previous year and who made significant contributions to country music.  Pop was there with Merle,  other great artists, songwriters,  session musicians and other Music Row people who would be missed.  He knew every star and they all knew him -  WELL.  He never missed a Friday or Saturday Opry backstage from the Ryman days to the new Opry House on Briley Parkway.  His workshop where he made gold records for decades for EVERY record label where his designs were approved and lauded by the presidents who came and went over the years at RCA,  SONY,  MCA,  Warner Brothers and all the rest,  was located just across the street from Hank Snow's famous Rainbow Ranch, and just a few blocks from Kitty Wells' and Johnny Wright's home.
Ken took hundreds of backstage photos over the decades and then over time had the artists sign stacks of the copies he made.  At his funeral - attended by many of the Opry stars,  and music exec's,  stories were abounded about how it was not uncommon to hear someone say,  "...Run !!  Here comes Ken with another stack of photos."  He would finally corner them in the breakroom or in their dressing rooms and insist they sit down and sign a stack of 50 or sometime more of those photos he took whenever...perhaps years before he finally caught up with them.
WHAT IS IMPORTANT TO NOTE IS:   These photos wer never published anywhere.  I have searched the Internet  which will always have a photo show up if it has been published anywhere.  I have over 100 signed "BACKSTAGE OPRY"  photos of the stars which I list from time to time and I have never seen any show up anywhere.  Many more will be added as time goes on.
I'm a 73 year-old retired CNN anchor and NBC White House Reporter...career broadcast journalist and I do this by myself.  I can only handle less than 100 listings at a time,  so I add new ones as older ones from my dad's estate sell out.  He left three storage facilities (over 5,000 collections)  of items from his five decades on Music Row,  including hundreds and hundreds of undistributed gold & platinum record awards which were inventoried by the record label company requests.
For more listings from the Kittinger Estate,  go to this link:
https://www.ebay.com/sch/Davestraub47/m.html?_ipg=100&_sop=12&_rdc=1+/;u