Even so, Stevie Ray accomplished something most people couldn’t dream of achieving in long lifetimes, as he almost single-handedly re-envisioned and reinvigorated the blues for the '80s.

Ruth Ellsworth Carter, the chef, painter, and songwriter who helped compose hits for Stevie Ray Vaughan and the Fabulous Thunderbirds with her husband Bill Carter, died on Jan. 4. She was 69.

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 ...

By Alan Paul and Andy Aledort The first time that Buddy Guy, quite possibly the greatest living blues guitarist, heard Stevie Ray Vaughan play, he couldn’t believe it.

Stevie Ray Vaughan always burned the candle at both ends. Then he started in on the middle. A booze-and-coke habit wasn’t unusual among musicians. But the depth of Vaughan’s worried eve… ...

It's been 29 years since Texas guitar great Stevie Ray Vaughan died in a Bell 206 helicopter crash in East Troy, Wis., on Aug. 27, 1990. Before he died he played a final gig with Eric Clapton and ...

Stevie Ray Vaughan. 1985 photo by Jay Godwin / American-Statesman Twenty-five years ago, on the morning of Aug. 27, 1990, Austin woke up to the news that one of the brightest stars of its music co… ...

Grammy-winning blues-rock guitarist Stevie Ray Vaughan was killed early Monday in a Wisconsin helicopter crash whose circumstances offered an eerie parallel to rock’s most famous air tragedy ...