Four-time Grammy Award-winning Austin, Texas-born guitar player and songwriter Gary Clark Jr. took the stage at the annual CMT Music Awards and channeled Stevie Ray Vaughan in a tribute to the ...

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.

Four-time Grammy winner and Austin native Gary Clark Jr. has been added to the performers lineup for the 2023 CMT Music Awards. He’ll be delivering a tribute to the Texas blues legend Stevie Ray ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Vaughan's struggles with drug and alcohol addiction landed him in rehab in the mid-'80s, then he got sober and resurrected his career. Shortly thereafter, he was killed in a helicopter crash in 1990.

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 ...

It’s the song that truly launched Vaughan into the mainstream. Blues fans knew about SRV for a long time, but this 1989 No.1 rock hit showcased Vaughan’s pop sensibilities.

Few names in the constellation of Austin music stars have shone as bright as Stevie Ray Vaughan. The story of his life — an all-too-short one that ended at the age of 35 in 1990 — deserves ...

On April 18 in Cleveland, Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble will finally get their due - induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. The late Dallas guitarist and singer, who died in 1990 ...

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 ...