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 was then 32 years old. Against all the odds, he got his shit together and returned to the live stage.

Stevie Ray wrote the soulful blues ballad about his good friend Charlie Wirz, who had died earlier that year. Wirz, who owned a Dallas guitar shop, was a mentor to Vaughan.

Stevie Ray Vaughan, one of the most talented players to ever pick up a six-string, was born on this day in 1954. The incomparable guitarist was at the forefront of a 1980s blues rock revival before a ...

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 ...

Getty Image 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.

Jimmie and Stevie Ray Vaughan: Brothers in Blues can be viewed now on Amazon, iTunes, Google Play and YouTube Movies. For more info on the film, visit its website.

In 1983, the monumental impact of Stevie Ray Vaughan’s debut album launched a thousand musicians and fans into guitar shops and 500,000 people into record stores to buy their copy of Texas Flood.

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.

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 ...

There are also stations to hear albums and watch video interviews with Jimmie, Gary Clark Jr. and Reese Wynans, who played in Stevie Ray Vaughan’s Double Trouble band for its last five years.