When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Though he famously used heavy strings and a high action on his guitars, this isn’t essential to ...

Stevie Ray Vaughan was born in Texas in 1954, and although he originally wanted to be a drummer, he was given a guitar at eight years old. Watching his older brother Jimmie play guitar inspired Stevie ...

The legacy of Stevie Ray Vaughan is not in his guitar playing. It’s in his heart. The blues was not born with the Texan guitarist, but it was given a second life. Twenty-five years after his death at ...

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 ...