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Stevie Ray wrote the soulful blues ballad about his good friend Charlie Wirz, who had died earlier that year. Wirz, who owned a Dallas guitar shop, was a mentor to Vaughan.
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 ...
Album Review Stevie Ray Vaughan: Solos Sessions and Encores by Doug Collette December 17, 2007 Guitarist Stevie Ray Vaughan's presence as a musician is so commanding it's hard to imagine him so ...
DALLAS (AP) — The electric guitar that blues legend Stevie Ray Vaughan used in his first studio recording and early performances has fetched $250,000 at auction in his hometown of Dallas.
Guitar World 's December 1990 issue was dedicated to Stevie Ray Vaughan, who was tragically killed on August 27 of that year in a helicopter crash. The accident came just as Vaughan was in the ...
The electric guitar that Stevie Ray Vaughan used in his first studio recording and early performances was given to him as a gift by his brother Jimmie. "Jimbo" is carved on the back.
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 ...
In 1990, Stevie Ray Vaughan and Jimmie Vaughan – two brothers who had both made an indelible mark on the wider world of blues guitar – joined together for the first time in their respective ...
DALLAS (AP) — The electric guitar that blues legend Stevie Ray Vaughan used in his first studio recording and early performances is expected to sell for about $400,000 at auction ...
The studio version of “The House Is Rockin’” is the first track on Stevie Ray Vaughan’s LP, In Step, the guitar player’s fourth and final studio album with his legendary band, Double ...
CHICAGO (WLS) -- Stevie Ray Vaughan was among the most successful and revered blues guitarists in history when he died in a helicopter crash on his way to Chicago on August 27, 1990.