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.

Getty Image In 1989, Stevie Ray Vaughan released his fourth studio album, and among the tracks was one titled “Tightrope.” The song’s lyrics detailed a man that had been to hell and back.

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 ...

Here’s how it works. Stevie Ray Vaughan And Double Trouble's second album, Couldn't Stand The Weather, recorded in 19 days and released in 1984, found the band riding the wave of Stevie's Bowie ...

Guitarist Stevie Ray Vaughn's ascendancy into the mainstream in 1983 via his debut album launched more than a blues revival. The release of Texas Flood, now available in a 2CD edition, signaled a ...

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, ...

Stevie Ray and Jimmie Vaughan, who is a former member of the Fabulous Thunderbirds, had just completed their first album together. "It's very Vaughan,' Jimmie Vaughan said in an interview this ...

Recorded in 1985 but released as the title track of a posthumous album in 1991, Vaughan's version of the Elmore James blues staple goes long on the wailing guitar, and the vocals are downright grimy.

There are also stations to hear albums and watch video interviews with Jimmie, Gary Clark Jr. and Reese Wynans, who played in Stevie Ray Vaughan’s Double Trouble band for its last five years.

When Classic Albums Live returns to Victoria Theatre in Dayton on Saturday, Nov. 18, the Canadian outfit will be performing the music of Stevie Ray Vaughan. The show features the late blues ...

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 ...