Biography

In the 1980s, many assumed blues rock was left for dead, but Stevie Ray Vaughan helped breath life back into it. More than a straight-ahead bluesman, Texas-native Vaughan was influenced as much by Jimi Hendrix as he was by Otis Rush, and the singer/songwriter/guitarist possessed jaw-dropping technical abilities and pure soul in equal amounts. With his trio Double Trouble (later expanded to include keyboardist Reese Wynans), Vaughan helped spearhead something of a blues revival in the '80s. Like his hero Hendrix, though, the flamboyant guitar hero died too soon, killed in a helicopter accident in 1990.

Top Tracks

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• Ain't Gone 'n' Give Up On Love

• All Your Love I Miss Loving

• Ask Me No Questions

• Call It Stormy Monday

• Cold Shot

• Collins Shuffle

• Come On, Pt. 3

• Couldn't Stand The Weather

• Crossfire

• Dirty Pool

• Letter To My Girlfriend

• Life By The Drop

• Little Wing

• Look At Little Sister

• Love Struck Baby

• Mary Had A Little Lamb

• May I Have A Talk With You

• Overall Junction

• Pride And Joy

• Rude Mood/pipeline

• Say What!

• Scuttle Buttin'

• Shake For Me

• Superstition

• Taxman

• Texas Flood

• The House Is Rockin'

• The Sky Is Crying

• The Things (that) I Used To Do

• Thunderbird

• Tightrope

• Tin Pan Alley (aka Roughest Place In Town)

• Voodoo Child (slight Return)

• Wall Of Denial

Discography

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• In Session

  Fantasy / Stax

  1999

• Live at Carnegie Hall

  Epic

  1997

• Live Alive

  Epic

  1986