Stevie Ray Vaughan died in a helicopter crash 30 years ago today; he was on his way to Chicago, where the blues community is reflecting on Vaughan's death and musical legacy.

AUSTIN, Texas — Austin-claimed but Dallas-born, musician Stevie Ray Vaughan died 29 years ago today in a tragic helicopter crash. The year was 1990 and Vaughan had finished playing a concert at ...

Stevie Ray Vaughan didn’t get his Shawshank happy ending, and In Step will always be seen as the triumph before the tragedy of his death, in a helicopter crash on August 27, 1990 at the age of 35.

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.

CHICAGO - Saturday marks 21 years since the helicopter crash that killed Stevie Ray Vaughan, and his brother Jimmie Vaughan still mourns for him. Jimmie says they had completed an album when his ...

I loved the guy.” It was this “father-son” relationship King speaks of that made the two so close, and also, made Vaughan’s loss all the more tragic to King. Stevie Ray Vaughan’s Death ...

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 ...

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But there will also be remembrance, as it was Jimmie Vaughan who had to identify 35-year-old Stevie Ray's body after the crash at a Wisconsin ski mountain. "I'll never get over it," Vaughan says.

Dallas-born blues-rock guitarist Stevie Ray Vaughan was killed early Monday in a helicopter crash in Wisconsin that also claimed four other lives. The Grammy Award winner was 35.