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Earlier this year, Sammy Hagar claimed that he’d written his latest single in a dream with the late Eddie Van Halen. The ...
Safe to say that SRV's brother, Jimmie, wasn't sure at first, and it took some persuasion from Stevie’s tech, René Martinez, ...
Stevie Ray Vaughan. 1985 photo by Jay Godwin / American-Statesman Twenty-five years ago, on the morning of Aug. 27, 1990, Austin woke up to the news that one of the brightest stars of its music co… ...
The Stanhope House, which billed itself as 'The Last Great American Roadhouse,' hosted everyone from Muddy Waters to Dr. John ...
Stevie Ray Vaughan is part of David Newton's medallions on display at Dallas Love Field, installed in 2014 Twenty-two years ago the city of Austin unveiled ...
The gradation of success is charted: Had the Vaughan narrative ended with Stevie Ray playing Sundays and Jimmie on stage Mondays at Austin’s Rome Inn, you get the sense the mythology of that era ...
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.
Later this month one of Texas-bred guitarist Stevie Ray Vaughan's favorite instruments will go up for auction. Nicknamed "Jimbo" by Vaughan, it was his first "real" guitar. Making it even more ...
Before becoming a blues-rock legend as Stevie Ray, he was simply Steve Vaughan, an aspiring Texas guitarist. From mid-1969 until early 1970, he cranked out rock and pop with a Texas cover band ...
Read that original story here. Blues guitarist Stevie Ray Vaughan was already a legend in music circles when we met for a wide-ranging interview in the spring of 1990.
After Stevie Ray died in a helicopter crash, Kirby noticed that all the books and movies left out Jimmie, who taught Stevie how to play. He then decided to make this film to give Jimmie's voice a ...
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 ...