File:DIG15175-008 Stevie Ray Vaughan “Number One Guitar” (Fender Stratocaster) and his older brother, Jimmie Vaughan - Music America - Iconic Objects from America’s Music History (204-02-15 12.25.59 LBJ Library @Flickr 53537260131).jpg

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Jimmie Vaughan points to the guitar played by his brother, Stevie Ray Vaughan, on display in the Music America exhibit at the LBJ Library.

On Feb. 15, 2024 the LBJ Presidential Library partnered with the Bruce Springsteen Archives & Center for American Music to host a concert to open a new exhibit, Music America: Iconic Objects from America’s Music History. The musicians included Alejandro Escovedo, Ruthie Foster, Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Colin Gilmore, Lyle Lovett, Jimmie Vaughan And The Tilt-A-Whirl Band, and Erika Wennerstrom with Bob Santelli serving as emcee.

LBJ Library photo by Jay Godwin 02/15/2024


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STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN “NUMBER ONE” GUITAR
Stevie Ray Vaughan blended blues and rock and gave in ...
distinctive Teras twist to produce to some of most excit...
historically important blues albums ... of the 1980s. Most of ...
guitarwork heard on albums such as the landmark Texas ...
Couldn't Stand the Weather was played on this Fender Stratocaster
dobbed “Number One”.

Vaughan and his band, Double Trouble, helped create a ...
interest in the blues in the early 1980s at a time when po...
had grown increasingly relevant on synthesizers and drum ...
His tragic death in 1990 in a helicopter crash stunned p...
leaving a hole that man difficult to fill.

Courtesy Jimmie Vaughan (?)
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  • Music America: Iconic Objects from America’s Music History. LBJ Presidential Library.
    "​Music America: Iconic Objects from America's Music History tells the complex story of American music through instruments, hand-written original lyrics, books, photographs, costumes, and other objects from major artists performing in all walks of American music in different decades and portrays the story of those artists who contributed to it. The exhibition, curated by the Bruce Springsteen Archives & Center for American Music, features more than one hundred iconic objects from America's music history. Visitors will be able to see artifacts from artists like Johnny Cash, Sam Cooke, Chuck D, Bob Dylan, Gloria Estefan, Ella Fitzgerald, Lady Gaga, Woody Guthrie, Jimi Hendrix, Faith Hill, Buddy Holly, Whitney Houston, Michael Jackson, Madonna, Prince, Carlos Santana, Frank Sinatra, Bruce Springsteen, Taylor Swift, Tupac, and more. The exhibition is on display through August 11, 2024. "
  • The Bruce Springsteen Archives & Center for American Music. (SpringsteenArchives.org). NJ: Monmouth University.
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" On Feb. 15, 2024 the LBJ Presidential Library partnered with the Bruce Springsteen Archives & Center for American Music to host a concert to open a new exhibit, Music America: Iconic Objects from America’s Music History. The musicians included Alejandro Escovedo, Ruthie Foster, Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Colin Gilmore, Lyle Lovett, Jimmie Vaughan And The Tilt-A-Whirl Band, and Erika Wennerstrom with Bob Santelli serving as emcee.  "

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