The Dallas-born guitar virtuoso Stevie Ray Vaughan showed the world what the electric guitar can do. Part of an elite group of players (along with others like Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, and maybe a ...
There’s a heart-stopping moment in the film The Shawshank Redemption when Andy Dufresne crawls to freedom through what Morgan Freeman’s character Red narrates as “five-hundred yards of shit-smelling ...
Bowie first met Vaughan while performing at the Montreux Jazz Festival in the early ’80s. His playing blew Bowie away and moved him to tap the young guitar player for a studio gig. Together, they ...
Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble – drummer Chris Layton and bassist Tommy Shannon – faced the classic second-album conundrum at the end of 1983. They needed new material quickly, coming off the ...
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Nile Rodgers on overseeing Stevie Ray Vaughan's final recording session
Having first met the Lone Star State guitar king during the sessions for David Bowie's 1983 blockbuster Let's Dance, Rodgers later produced Family Style, Stevie Ray's posthumously released ...
Welcome to the Texas Canon, a series that dives into the movies, TV shows, books, albums, and more that represent us and reach far beyond the Lone Star State’s borders. Today we look at legendary ...
AUSTIN, Texas — Aug. 27, 2025, marks 35 years since Dallas-born but Austin-claimed blues guitarist Stevie Ray Vaughan died in a helicopter crash. The 1990 incident occurred shortly after a concert at ...
AUSTIN, Texas — Stevie Ray Vaughan would have turned 71 years old on Friday, Oct. 3, had his life not been cut short in a helicopter crash in 1990. Vaughan grew up in Dallas at a time when – like many ...
Blues guitarist Kenny Wayne Shepherd began playing guitar as a kid and had a hit album by age 18. Blues guitarist Kenny Wayne Shepherd already has more than 30 years under his belt in the music ...
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