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Stevie Ray Vaughan was your archetypal dead man walking, hell-bent on self-destruction until he committed to recording what would become his final studio album with Double Trouble.
The album was released September 25 1990, weeks after Stevie Ray Vaughan died in a helicopter crash on August 27. Last year, a documentary that centered on the relationship between Jimmie and SRV ...
As Hildebrand points out in his notes, “Albert King wasn’t sure who it was he’d been booked to jam with on December 6, 1983 in the studios of CHCH, an independent TV station in Hamilton, Ontario, ...
For proof, listen only to that dreadful 1996 A Tribute to Stevie Ray Vaughan, on which brother Jimmie, Bonnie Raitt, Robert Cray, Dr. John, and other old friends tried to find some way into all ...
Before becoming a blues-rock legend as Stevie Ray, he was simply Steve Vaughan, an aspiring Texas guitarist. From mid-1969 until early 1970, he cranked out rock and pop with a Texas cover band ...
A straight-ahead love song that, from the hands of Stevie Ray Vaughan, becomes not so standard. The artist wrote this after meeting a new girlfriend and he released it on his 1983 debut LP Texas ...
Nearly 20 years after Stevie Ray Vaughan's death in a helicopter crash on Aug. 27, 1990, the guitarist is being celebrated with the release of the band's remastered and expanded second album ...
On this day, back in 1983, the release party for Stevie Ray Vaughan's "Texas Flood" album was held at Fitzgerald's, right here in Houston. Commemorating that anniversary, Tracy has launched her ...
Documentaries often are made by a curious outsider looking in on a subject. Kirby F. Warnock — writer and director of “Brothers in Blues: Jimmie and Stevie Ray Vaughan” — grew up in the ...
Shortly before Stevie Ray Vaughan’s death, the brothers recorded the album Family Style, which Johnson described as the sound of two boys who were raised in Oak Cliff.