Austin-born guitarist Eric Johnson has reflected on his hometown’s knack for spawning next-level guitarists and how the city, with its “little artistic pockets,” helped shape them. Certain places have ...

Less than a year before his tragic death in a helicopter crash on August 27, 1990, electric guitar legend Stevie Ray Vaughan embarked on a co-headlining tour for the ages with Jeff Beck. By all ...

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 ...

Mike McCready has recalled one of the lowest points in his life when he had abandoned playing guitar and was in the throes of sickness, and how a spiritual journey, soundtracked by a Stevie Ray ...

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 ...

On this day (August 27) in 1990, the music world lost the masterful blues guitarist Stevie Ray Vaughan. Vaughan, who was 35, was killed in a helicopter crash after jamming with Eric Clapton and his ...

Austin will never let the guitar greatness of Jimmie and Stevie Ray Vaughan slip from memory. Although the brothers grew up and cut their musical teeth in the Oak Cliff area of Dallas, they made ...

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 ...

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 ...

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