Stevie is most associated with the Fender Strat – with a battered example put together from late 50s and early 60s parts, ‘Number One’ serving as his main guitar, plugged into a mixture of Fender, ...

The legacy of Stevie Ray Vaughan is not in his guitar playing. It’s in his heart. The blues was not born with the Texan guitarist, but it was given a second life. Twenty-five years after his death at ...

Footage has emerged online of Stevie Ray Vaughan making a storming debut appearance on Late Night with David Letterman in 1989. The newly unearthed clip originally aired on NBC on September 21 of that ...

The indelible image of legendary guitarist Stevie Ray Vaughan is him standing at the front of the stage, growling into the microphone, and doing things to the guitar no one will ever completely ...

Stevie Ray Vaughan had been leading his own band, Double Trouble, for a few years before the Dallas-born guitarist's big break came. What he did next defined his status as a new-generation blues rebel ...

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. Like many other creative ...

You only had to decipher the LP’s title to figure out just what had held him up since the 1986 release of the Live Alive collection. In Step, with its reference to 12-step recovery programs, candidly ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Though he famously used heavy strings and a high action on his guitars, this isn’t essential to ...