Stevie Ray Vaughan, the younger brother of Jimmie, started playing guitar at a young age and ignited the revival blues screen in the 1980s, according to Rolling Stone.

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 ...

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.

And on their fourth studio album, In Step, Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble cooked up a combination of blues, rock, and funk on a tune called Tightrope that served as the record's greasiest groove.

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.

When Stevie Ray Vaughan died in a helicopter crash in 1990, the world lost perhaps its greatest living guitarist and an inspiration to other recovering addicts. By Steve Knopper On Aug. 27, 1990 ...

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… ...

By Alan Paul and Andy Aledort The first time that Buddy Guy, quite possibly the greatest living blues guitarist, heard Stevie Ray Vaughan play, he couldn’t believe it.

PHOTOS: SRV in life 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.

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 ...