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Stevie Ray Vaughan
Stephen "Stevie" Ray Vaughan (October 3, 1954 - August 27, 1990), born in Dallas, Texas, was an American blues guitarist. His broad appeal made him one of the world's most influential electric blues guitarists. In 2003, Rolling Stone Magazine ranked Stevie Ray Vaughan #7 in their list of the 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time. He was the younger brother of Jimmie Vaughan. Vaughan was born and raised in the Oak Cliff neighborhood of Dallas, Texas. Neither of his parents had any strong musical talent but were avid music fans. They would take Vaughan and his older brother Jimmie to concerts to see Fats Domino, Jimmy Reed, and Bob Wills. Even though Vaughan initially wanted to play the drums as his primary instrument, he was given a guitar when he was eight years old. Vaughan's brother, Jimmie Vaughan, gave him his first guitar lessons. Vaughan later quoted in Guitar Player Magazine as saying, "My brother Jimmie actually was one of the biggest influences on my playing. He really was the reason why I started to play, watching him and seeing what could be done."[citation needed] After his brother showed him a few basic chords, Vaughan taught himself to play. He played entirely by ear and never learned how to read sheet music. By the time he was 13 years old he was playing in clubs where he met many of his blues idols. A few years later he dropped out of Justin F. Kimball High School and moved to Austin to pursue music. Vaughan's talent caught the attention of guitarist Johnny Winter, and blues-club owner Clifford Antone. Vaughan's first recording band was called Paul Ray and the Cobras. They played at clubs and bars in Austin during the mid-1970s, and released one single. Vaughan later recorded two other singles under the band name The Cobras. Following the break-up of The Cobras, he formed Triple Threat in late 1975, which included bassist Jackie Newhouse, drummer Chris Layton, vocalist Lou Ann Barton, and sax player Johnny Reno. Barton left the band in 1978 to pursue a solo career, followed by Reno in 1979. The three remaining members started performing under the name Double Trouble, inspired by an Otis Rush song of the same name. Vaughan became the band's lead singer. Tommy Shannon, the bass player on Johnny Winter's early albums, replaced Newhouse in 1981. A popular Austin act, Vaughan soon attracted the attention of musicians David Bowie and Jackson Browne.
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Stevie Ray Vaughan: Day By Day, Night After Night
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by Budd Kopman
Stevie Ray Vaughan: Day By Day, Night After Night Craig Hopkins 424 Pages ISBN: 978-0-9654927-2-0 Self Published 2008 Blues/rock guitarist Stevie Ray Vaughan had IT." What this is has little directly to do with his tone, monster technique, clothing choices or even stage presence. This IT" has everything to do with the fact he played with the same intensity in front of five people as five thousand people. He ...
read moreStevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble: Texas Flood: 30th Anniversary Legacy Edition
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by Doug Collette
Guitarist Stevie Ray Vaughn's ascendancy into the mainstream in 1983 via his debut album launched more than a blues revival. The release of Texas Flood, now available in a 2CD edition, signaled a paradigm shift where coexisting demographics (such as the MTV ephemera of the time) fought for audiences.As noted in the extremely informative, yet passionately composed liner notes by historian Ashley Kahn, Vaughan's first release with Double Trouble was a lightning rod for attention beyond just purists ...
read moreStevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble: Couldn't Stand the Weather
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by Jim Santella
Couldn't Stand the Weather is a great album which has been reissued before. But this time, there are considerable extras in the package that make it jump out and shout. Each of the two discs runs for nearly 80 minutes: disc one includes the original album and plenty of bonus tracks; while disc two contains a previously unreleased concert appearance. Extensive liner notes by Andy Aledort of Guitar World form a biography of Vaughan, and provide interesting commentary on the ...
read moreStevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble: Couldn't Stand the Weather: Legacy Edition
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by Doug Collette
The two-disc package of Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble's second studio Album, Couldn't Stand The Weather, adds to the legacy of this contemporary bluesman through a combination of studio outtakes and a complete concert recording. Disc one contains the original follow-up to Texas Flood (Epic, 1983), that effectively ignited a blues revival in the Eighties. By adding a homage to Jimi Hendrix, in the form of Voodoo Chile (Slight Return)," as a crowning touch, Vaughan thoroughly honored ...
read moreStevie Ray Vaughan: Solos Sessions and Encores
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by Doug Collette
Guitarist Stevie Ray Vaughan's presence as a musician is so commanding it's hard to imagine him so readily assuming the role of studio sideman or sharing the stage as he does on the fourteen tracks that comprise this CD. But it was his very love to play that allowed him to collaborate with virtually as much passion in these varied accompanying roles as when he led his own band, Double Trouble.
It's a testament to the late bluesman's musicianly savvy ...
read moreStevie Ray Vaughan: Pride and Joy
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Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble Pride and Joy Legacy Recordings 2007
The posthumous archiving work completed so far on behalf of Stevie Ray Vaughan has done right by both fans and novices. Pride and Joy may be for purists, only expanding as it does on a previous VHS release. But the best moments will satisfy the aficionado and may in fact pique the curiosity of the dilettante.
This collection of videos from the ...
read moreStevie Ray Vaughan: Solos, Sessions & Encores
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by Jim Santella
Blues guitarist and singer Stevie Ray Vaughan impressed millions of fans and aspiring musicians with his genuine soul and fiery technique. Cut short by a blanket of fog in the wee hours of the morning after an August 1990 concert, his career had put him in touch with blues artists and rock stars from around the world. That final encore jam in East Troy, Wisconsin, featuring Vaughan with his brother Jimmie and friends Eric Clapton, Buddy Guy and Robert Cray, ...
read moreAlbert King & Stevie Ray Vaughan's 'In Session' in Top 5 Billboard Blues Catalog Chart, to be Carried at Starbucks February 15
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Seen nationwide as a PBS special, CD/DVD combo reaps critical praise LOS ANGELES, Calif.If blues legends Albert King and Stevie Ray Vaughan were still alive, they'd be blown away by the reaction to their 28-year-old live collaboration. The 1983 performance, shot in Hamilton, Ontario for the TV series In Session, has sold an astounding 360,000 units as both an audio CD and combined CD/DVD, according to Nielson Soundscan. The deluxe CD/DVD twofer, released on November 9, 2010 on Stax Records ...
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"Albert King with Stevie Ray Vaughan - In Session" Scheduled for November Airing on PBS
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Deluxe DVD of historical blues summit released on Stax Records LOS ANGELES, Calif.PBS has announced that the Albert King with Stevie Ray Vaughan In Session program will air as a special on its stations beginning November 27 and throughout the month of December (check local listings). Grammy Award winning bluesman Robert Cray will serve as special fundraising host on the public television broadcasts. In 1983, when legendary blues guitarist Albert King, then age 60, was joined by his disciple ...
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Albert King/Stevie Ray Vaughan 'In Session' Summit Now on DVD on Stax
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Guitar titans' one and only meeting to be released as a deluxe CD/DVD November 9th on Stax LOS ANGELES, Calif.On December 6, 1983, legendary blues guitarist Albert King joined his disciple Stevie Ray Vaughan on a Canadian sound stage for the live music television series In Session. Magic happened. The highly sought after video footage from that one- time legendary summit becomes available for the first time ever on November 9 with the release of Stax Records' deluxe two-disc CD/DVD ...
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Sat Eye Candy: Stevie Ray Vaughan
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BLUES ROCK GIANT GONE 20 YEARS Yesterday marked the 20th anniversary of Stevie Ray Vaughan's untimely death, but so overstuffed with life is the music he left behind that it hardly seems possible that he's gone. Texas born Vaughn exuded red hot passion and a grabbing, exciting gusto to get into it, whatever it" might be. When he arrived on the national scene in the early 1980s he re-infused the blues with a rawness and vitality that the increasingly slick ...
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Super Bad Sunday: Stevie Ray Vaughan
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GONE TOO EARLY BUT LEFT SUCH A LEGACY
Our weekend triple-shot goes to simply one of the greatest blues-rock singer-guitarist-songwriters of all-time, Mr. Stevie Ray Vaughan. Not many evoked Hendrix, Buddy Guy, Muddy Waters and other touchstone guitarists and vocalists with such resounding authority and individual stamp. His music transcends even the finest superlatives so we'll let it speak for itself.
Albert King & Stevie Ray Vaughan's "In Session" Album Reissued on Stax
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In Session Album, which reached #1 on the blues chart, has been digitally remastered for this reissue.
LOS ANGELES, Calif. — Albert King never got the mass recognition he deserved. He always seemed to be in the shadow of B.B. But among blues guitarists and fans of the craft, he was the master. Austin, Texas’ Stevie Ray Vaughan, 31 years King’s junior, exploded onto the scene in 1983, first as guitarist on David Bowie’s “Let’s Dance” followed by his own ...
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