Stevie Ray Vaughan: Texas Flood

Not too much to say about Vaughan. The videos speak for themselves. High on the too-long list of musicians who died too young.

Here are Hendrix’ Voodoo Chile, Testify, Scuttle Buttin and Pride and Joy, perhaps his best known song. There is a lot on the Internet about Vaughan, including his homepage and a tremendous archive that includes links to many other sites. It’s interesting that bassist Tommy Shannon were mainstays with Vaughan (in the band Double Trouble) and Johnny Winter, a guitar phenom of a generation earlier.

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    [...] since he ends up in different spots in different years. One has him at eight, right between Stevie Ray Vaughan and Jimmy Page, another at 31, in a Billy Gibbons/Elmore James sandwich. Ranking guitarists is dumb [...]

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    [...] Luther Allison was a tremendous blues guitarist who passed away in 1997. While he didn’t get the publicity of some of his contemporaries, he appeared with — and clearly was respected by — the likes of B.B. King, Eric Clapton and Stevie Ray Vaughan. [...]

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    [...] blues guitarist Buddy Guy, below. Guy is performing the song Long Way From Home at a memorial for Stevie Ray Vaughan. Vaughan’s brother, Jimmie, is playing rhythm [...]

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