Stevie Ray Vaughan was always supportive of his fellow blues players, once naming his favourite young player, who came up in ...

The late guitar hero Jeff Beck frequently sang the praises of his fellow virtuosos. Once, he named a guitarist who was the ...

Buddy Guy takes the spotlight on the newly released B.B. King’s Blues Summit 100, Vol. III, leading the project’s next wave of tributes.

In 1972, legendary British guitarist Jeff Beck formed one of rock’s supergroups with two American musicians who had played together in Vanilla Fudge – bassist/vocalist Tim Bogert and drummer Carmine ...

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 ...

There’s a reason more than one person claimed Stevie Ray Vaughan reduced the stage to a pile of smoking cinders—his guitar didn’t just sing, it blazed. Too bad the same heat that fueled his music also ...

Thirty-five years ago, Eric Clapton lost dear friend Stevie Ray Vaughan when the Texas blues legend's helicopter smashed into a Wisconsin hillside after the pals played a concert on August 27, 1990.

I can still remember Aug. 27, 1990, like it was seared into the memory cells of my brain. I was a college student, on my way to class, and on the radio the DJ had played a succession of songs by ...

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 ...

August 27, 1990 was “The Day the Music Died” in Austin. Thirty-five years ago, 35-year-old Stevie Ray Vaughan died in a helicopter that crashed into the side of a Wisconsin ski slope shortly after ...

Music fans are singing the blues following the closure this week of The Stanhope House, the cramped Sussex County club where Muddy Waters, Willie Dixon, and Stevie Ray Vaughn once played. A notice on ...