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Do you have Larry Gatlin's stolen Grammy award? He'll pay you for it.

Cindy Watts
The Tennessean
Larry Gatlin is one of country music's most prolific songwriters and has credits including "All the Gold in California," 

Tuesday June 26, 2018, in Nashville, Tenn.

Larry Gatlin has been nominated for nine Grammy Awards. He won one of them — and it was stolen.

Now, he wants it back. 

“In this charged, heated atmosphere of politics that we live in … where I believe that very little is viewed through the prism of what is true and what is right and wrong … I have a question for someone in America out there,” Gatlin says. “You have Larry Gatlin’s Grammy for ‘Broken Lady’ for Song of the Year. It’s on your mantel or somewhere in your house. What do you tell people when they come over and ask you how you got Larry Gatlin’s Grammy?”

Gatlin said his golden gramophone trophy for Best Country Song in 1977 was stolen from the Gatlin Bros. Music City grill in the Mall of America in the 1990s. More than three decades later, he has a proposition for the thief — or whoever has retained ownership of the Grammy Award.

They can email assistant@absolutepublicity.com to make arrangements to return the trophy and receive the monetary reward. 

Gatlin promises: “I’ll give you a written statement that I won’t prosecute you. You can just say you bought it at a pawn shop.”

In addition, the “All the Gold in California” singer is also on a mission to find his long black leather coat that was taken from the back of a car in Las Vegas. The coat was crafted by famous clothier Manuel and has Gatlin’s name embroidered inside. 

“Everybody is going to say, ‘Where’d you get that coat?’ Why wouldn’t they just send that back?” Gatlin wondered.

The undertaking has given Gatlin idea. To execute it, he’d like to talk to Angie Hicks, the co-founded of Angie’s List. Angie’s List is a website that allows people to suggest and rank local businesses based on performance. Gatlin doesn’t know Hicks, but he wants to partner for a business called No Questions Asked. 

“You pay $100, Angie takes $10,” Gatlin explains. “You ship it to a warehouse and no one knows where it came from. I would love to have my Grammy back … and my Manuel coat.”