{"id":249257,"date":"2026-04-14T14:06:06","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T14:06:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/249257\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T14:06:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T14:06:06","slug":"a-guitar-signed-by-young-taylor-swift-hid-in-a-closet-for-decades-now-its-up-for-auction-to-benefit-cook-childrens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/249257\/","title":{"rendered":"A guitar signed by young Taylor Swift hid in a closet for decades. Now, it&#8217;s up for auction to benefit Cook Children&#8217;s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A closet clean-out at New Country 96.3 led to a surprising discovery: a guitar signed by country legends, including a very young Taylor Swift. <\/p>\n<p>DALLAS \u2014 Nearly 20 years ago, a young songwriter known for &#8220;Teardrops on My Guitar&#8221; stopped by a North Texas radio station and signed a guitar alongside other country legends. The guitar went to the back of a closet, and now, several sold-out world tours later, <a href=\"https:\/\/my.onecause.com\/event\/organizations\/sf-001C000000zyI7lIAE\/events\/vevt:5f9adc44-c629-4e6f-8683-30dc2c0fa331\/auctions\/silent-auction\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">the guitar is up for auction<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>During a closet cleanout at Cumulus Media\u2019s New Country 96.3, staff found an acoustic guitar covered in both signatures and dust, Cumulus said in a press release. Among the signatures are country legends: Dierks Bentley, Martina McBride, Eli Young Band, Kevin Fowler, Gary Allan, Randy Rogers, Frank Day, Buddy Jewel, and more.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Jessica MacKenzie-Williams, promotions director at the station, saw the faded signatures and was about to use the guitar for an upcoming event.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But, then after closer examination, I recognized one of the signatures\u2026 Taylor\u2019s. I couldn\u2019t believe it!\u201d said MacKenzie-Williams.<\/p>\n<p>Next to the signature, 18-year-old Taylor wrote the year 2008, the same year &#8220;Fearless,&#8221; her second album, was released.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>When &#8220;Hawkeye in the Morning&#8221; hosts Michelle and Hawkeye heard about the find, and verified many of the signatures on the guitar, they named it &#8220;The Lost Taylor Swift Guitar, officials said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The pair decided to auction the guitar to raise money for Cook Children&#8217;s Medical Center in Fort Worth, the release states.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis guitar has already had an incredible journey,\u201d Hawkeye said. \u201cNow it gets to make a difference for kids who need it most.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The online auction opened Monday, April 13, and will run through 9 a.m. Friday, April 17, according to the release. The minimum bid for the guitar is already up to over $5,000 as of Tuesday morning.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A closet clean-out at New Country 96.3 led to a surprising discovery: a guitar signed by country legends,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":249258,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":{"0":"post-249257","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fort-worth","8":"tag-fort-worth","9":"tag-fort-worth-headlines","10":"tag-fort-worth-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249257\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}