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In 1989, Stevie Ray Vaughan was part of an all-star blues lineup that played a concert celebrating the inauguration of George H.W. Bush. Vaughan played "Texas Flood," a performance that, like the ...
[ Cheers and applause ] -Evening, ladies and gentlemen, welcome to to El Mocambo. Boogie time tonight, please welcome from Austin, Texas, Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble. [ "Testify" plays ...
The tour came to a tragic, unplanned end on Aug. 27, 1990, when, after a star-studded show at Alpine Valley Music Theater in East Troy, Wis., Vaughan was killed in a helicopter crash.
Stevie Ray Vaughan would have turned 56 this October. Their last conversation (after that final gig with Eric Clapton and Robert Cray at Alpine Valley in East Roy, Wis.) was a trifle.
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.
Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble went back to work during the final years of the decade. While headlining several concerts, the band began work on what would be their final studio album, In Step.
Stevie Ray Vaughan had been leading his own band, Double Trouble, for a few years before the Dallas-born guitarist's big break came. What he did next defined his status as a new-generation blues ...
Dallas guitarist Tommy Katona knows full well the musical pull of the late Texas blues-rock guitarist Stevie Ray Vaughan: It captured him as a 4-year-old in his native Hungary when ...
Today is the 25th anniversary of the death of legendary blues musician Stevie Ray Vaughan, a guitarist, singer, songwriter and record producer. For the fifth consecutive year, Costa Rica’s JR Blues ...