Absent from 'Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble: The Complete Epic Recordings Collection,' however, is the 1991 posthumous album 'The Sky Is Crying' -- though many of that project's best ...

In addition, a posthumous album, The Sky Is Crying, a collection of unreleased recordings, was put out in 1991. Vaughan and Double Trouble were inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2015.

This is an August 1989 file photo of the late blues singer Stevie Ray Vaughan, who died in an Aug. 27, 1990 helicopter crash neat East Tryo, Wis.

I was late but I stayed in the car and at the end they said, ‘That was Stevie Ray Vaughan.’ I went out and bought the newest album, which was “The Sky Is Crying.” ...

A new biography of blues guitarist Stevie Ray Vaughan deepens the sense of tragedy about his death after a concert at East Troy's Alpine Valley Music Theatre in 1990.

Stevie Ray Vaughan is pictured in an undated photo. (Courtesy) Editor's note: These stories originally appeared in the August 28, 1990, edition of The Dallas Morning News.

Stevie Ray Vaughan, perhaps the best rock/blues guitarist of my generation, was 35 when he died in a helicopter crash near Elkhorn, Wisconsin, shortly after midnight on August 27, 1990.