Springsteen Archives & Center for American Music Teams Up with the LBJ Presidential Library

Woody Guthrie
PHOTO CREDIT: Al Aumuller/New York World-Telegram Sun

The exhibit is called “Music America: Iconic Objects from America’s Music History.” It opened February 17 and runs through August 11 at the LBJ Presidential Library in Austin Texas. Over 100 objects will be on display. This includes BB King’s beloved guitar Lucille, a fox stole worn by Billie Holiday, a handmade velvet shirt worn by Elvis, Chuck D’s handwritten lyrics to “Fight The Power,” the clothes Bruce wore on the cover of Born In The USA, Leonard Bernstein’s baton, John Coltrane’s sax, Woody Guthrie’s signed “This Land Is Your Land” lyric-sheet (the song that should be our National Anthem), Madonna’s “Like A Virgin” wedding gown, Willie’s boots, Prince’s “Purple Rain” shirt, Stevie Ray Vaughan’s guitar and Taylor Swift’s outfit and guitar from her “Reputation” stadium tour.

Blues giant John Lee Hooker, in his will, wanted the Delta Blues Museum in Mississippi to have his 10 guitars. Now one of them is here.

Stevie Ray Vaughan played this Fender Stratocaster both onstage and in the studio, referring to it as his "Number #1.

(Photo Courtesy of The Bullock Museum)

BB King called all of his guitars Lucille. This is one of them.

Elvis wore this shirt--a gift from his girlfriend at the time, actress Natalie Wood--on September 26, 1956, onstage during his triumphant hometown appearance in Tupelo, MS.

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