Today would have been Stevie Ray Vaughan’s 60th birthday. The brilliant guitarist’s life was tragically cut short at the age of 35, when he died in a helicopter crash.

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 plays guitar as he performs onstage at the Alpine Valley Music Theater, East Troy, Wisconsin, August 26, 1990. It would be his last public performance.

But even for a once-in-a-lifetime artist like Stevie Ray, there was still a rhythm section grounding him, pushing him, and taking him to new places. For Vaughan, that rhythm section was Tommy ...

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 ...

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… ...

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.

In honoring the "100 Greatest Guitarists" of all time, Rolling Stones ranked Stevie Ray as No. 12. Unfortunately, his life and career was cut short when he died in a helicopter accident in 1990.

Stevie Ray Vaughan, the blues rock giant, had a reputation as a guitar virtuoso who garnered worldwide fame. But before Vaughan and his band Double Trouble churned out hits like the swaying ...

TEXAS FLOOD The Inside Story of Stevie Ray Vaughan By Alan Paul and Andy Aledort The first time that Buddy Guy, quite possibly the greatest living blues guitarist, heard Stevie Ray Vaughan play ...