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Untold stories about Stevie Ray Vaughan and his older brother, Jimmie, are revealed in a documentary directed by Kirby Warnock. The documentary will be shown March 23 at the Texas Theatre in Oak ...
Brothers Jimmie and Stevie went from a small, post-war house in Oak Cliff, Texas to selling millions of records and playing alongside the likes of David Bowie, Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, Jackson ...
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.
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 two brothers, after years of struggle, were sitting atop the blues-rock world when tragedy struck. As is often the case, when an artist dies young, Stevie Ray Vaughan became a legend. Jimmie, ...
Jimmie Vaughan plays guitar in a scene from the music documentary, "Brothers in Blues." All during Jimmie's progress, kid brother Stevie Ray had idolized his brother and tried to emulate him.
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.
Stevie Ray Vaughan died 29 years ago. But interest in the Texas guitar god hasn't really waned in the years since. This month brings to Houston two events dedicated to Vaughan and his music.
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 ...
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 ...
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.