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 ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Ebet Roberts/Redferns An outspoken advocate of tube amps and vintage guitars, the late ...

Welcome to the Texas Canon, a series that dives into the movies, TV shows, books, albums, and more that represent us and reach far beyond the Lone Star State’s borders. Today we look at legendary ...

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 ...

When Heritage Auctions drops the hammer on its latest batch of rock ‘n’ roll memorabilia, one Mandeville-based guitar dealer will be watching with special interest. Willem McCormick, himself a ...

Despite only spending a mere seven and a half years as a guitar player on the world stage, Texas guitar maven Stevie Ray Vaughan left quite the mark. In that relative blink of an eye, Vaughan ...

Documentaries often are made by a curious outsider looking in on a subject. Kirby F. Warnock — writer and director of “Brothers in Blues: Jimmie and Stevie Ray Vaughan” — grew up in the Oak Cliff ...

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 ...

There are many ways to play the guitar, and certainly many Legendary Guitarists, such as Chet Atkins, Joni Mitchell, and ...

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 ...