The Dallas-born guitar virtuoso Stevie Ray Vaughan showed the world what the electric guitar can do. Part of an elite group of players (along with others like Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, and maybe a ...

There’s a heart-stopping moment in the film The Shawshank Redemption when Andy Dufresne crawls to freedom through what Morgan Freeman’s character Red narrates as “five-hundred yards of shit-smelling ...

Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble – drummer Chris Layton and bassist Tommy Shannon – faced the classic second-album conundrum at the end of 1983. They needed new material quickly, coming off the ...

Ten years and three months after his death, Stevie Ray Vaughan releases yet another disc–three, actually, plus a bonus DVD of unreleased Austin City Limits performances, as this long-awaited boxed set ...

Four-time Grammy Award-winning Austin, Texas-born guitar player and songwriter Gary Clark Jr. took the stage at the annual CMT Music Awards and channeled Stevie Ray Vaughan in a tribute to the ...

Today is #GivingTuesday. We in the news business like to think of it as #GivingNewsDay. If you value our work, we hope you’ll consider making a contribution to our newsroom today. It's hard to ...

There's a new and quite extraordinary music documentary debuting March 21, when "Brothers in Blues," a film detailing the music careers of Jimmie and Stevie Ray Vaughan, becomes available to rent via ...

SAN MARCOS, Texas (KXAN) — The Wittliff Collections at Texas State University has acquired a large archive of the late blues guitarist Stevie Ray Vaughan, who died in a 1990 helicopter crash at the ...

EXCLUSIVE: Freestyle Digital Media has picked up North American rights to the music documentary Jimmie and Stevie Ray Vaughan: Brothers in Blues, on the blues rock guitar legends of the same name, ...

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 ...

Earlier this week, the CMT Music Awards announced the addition of rising Austin talent Jackie Venson to the Sunday televised performance. The awards show’s first year at the local Moody Center, ...