With four decades of hindsight, it occurs that Stevie Ray Vaughan’s popularity might well have continued to ascend if he were not battling his demons so furiously when making his third studio album.

The singer, songwriter and producer’s 2000 album was the result of years in the studio listening to inspiring music, jamming and rediscovering his artistic purpose. By Hank Shteamer When D’Angelo ...

Stevie Ray Vaughan was one of the most influential musical artists of the 1980s, playing guitar like few others and writing a memorable chapter in the history of blues. Those in the Interior will get ...

WICHITA FALLS, Texas (KAUZ) - Wichita Falls Parks and Recreation will be hosting a free concert featuring Stevie Ray Vaughan tribute band Texas Flood at Bud Daniels Park on October 14. The ...

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 ...

Eric Clapton was supposed to be on a helicopter 35 years ago on August 27, 1990, that killed Stevie Ray Vaughan. However, since Eric wanted to finish a cup of coffee, Vaughan took his seat instead and ...

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 ...

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 ...

35 years ago today (8/27/90), Stevie Ray Vaughan was killed at age 35 when the helicopter he was flying in crashed in the fog right outside Alpine Valley Music Theatre in East Troy, WI. Hours earlier, ...

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 ...