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In 2004, Stevie Ray Vaughan’s famous guitar, “Lenny,” was listed for sale at the Eric Clapton Crossroads Guitar Festival by the famous New York auction house Christie’s.
Despite only spending a mere seven and a half years as a guitar player on the world stage, Texas guitar maven Stevie Ray Vaughan left quite the mark. Videos by American Songwriter In that relative ...
An exclusive excerpt from new Stevie Ray Vaughan biography 'Texas Flood' delves into the guitar legend's collaboration with David Bowie.
The pieces were all collected at auctions, and include his Lenny Strat, custom Hamiltone guitar, Fender Bassman amplifier, guitar effects pedals and his jacket.
The Fender Custom Shop will produce 250 replicas of Lenny, one of the late guitarist’s two primary performance guitars. It got its hands on the axe courtesy of Guitar Center, which bought it for ...
Stevie Ray Vaughan and the Stratocaster are one of those iconic guitarist/guitar pairings – Brian May and the Red Special, Jimmy Page and his Number One 1959 Les Paul, et cetera.
The illustration detailing Jack Pott's theory that there's a secret guitar laid out in the design of Auditorium Shores, surrounding the Stevie Ray Vaughan statue.
But he knew how to slow things down, too. “Lenny” (from Texas Flood), a lovely instrumental ballad, brings to mind another Hendrix song Vaughan liked to cover, “Little Wing.” ...
Though Vaughan's famous guitar, "Lenny," fetched a whopping $623,500 when Guitar Center purchased it in 2004, homes are not guitars. Not even rock star's homes. So it seems like the childhood home ...
Despite the years that have passed since his untimely death in 1990, Stevie Ray Vaughan remains one of the most revered guitarists in the electric blues canon, and as this video performance of Lenny ...
When Stevie Ray Vaughan was looking for a guitar tech, he knew just the man: Rene Martinez. He was an old acquaintance, a well-known luthier and repairman at Charley's Guitar Shop in Dallas. Stevie's ...