This site wants to remember Stevie Ray, with images, articles and sounds, so just look around, read and listen and look and spare a thought for a musician who in fact will never die when he has long been a legend.
Additionally there are some SRV wallpapers on the site and a couple of recommendations for books and CDs.
"There are a lot of rockin' songs," he said, "and then some
like we've never played before. There's definitely blues in it - not less blues
than before - but it's a type of music we haven't really tried before, some
different kinds of changes. There are a few other players here and there that
people won't expect. Some keyboards (ex-Delbert McClinton pianist Reese Wynans
has beeen added to Double Trouble), some horns. But the moods are
happier."
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Musically and socially, what Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble did was
virtually unprecedented. Not since Eric Clapton or Johnny Winter had a bonafide
guitar hero surfaced playing stone blues. In fact, there had been a shortage of
guitar heroes, period. Whereas Clapton and Winter reached their largest
audiences after they had strayed from the genre, and Hendrix had from the
outset transformed his blues base into a horse of a different color, Vaughan
faithfully played the music he'd learned from T-Bone Walker, Freddie King,
Albert King, and Guitar Slim, in front of thousands night after night....
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Stevie Ray took a breather from recording Family Style in Memphis for a
brief return to his old stomping grounds, and to attend the eighth annual
Austin Music Awards. The event could easily have been called the "SRV
Awards," for the guitarist was named Musician Of The Decade, and came away
with honors for Record Of The Decade (Texas Flood), Record Of The Year (In
Step), Single Of The Year ("Crossfire") and Musician Of The Year.
Clad in understated formal attire, he expressed his gratitude to the capacity
crowd at Palmer Auditorium.
"I just want to thank God that I'm alive. And I want to thank all the
people that loved me back to life so that I could be here with you today."
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The first flash comes over the AP wire at about 7 am:
Copter crash in East Troy, Wisconsin. Five fatalities, including "a
musician" .
Keen eyes at the Austin American Statesman newsroom catch that item and begin
putting two and two together. Every half hour, AP updates with details. The
mysterious ''musician" becomes "a member of Eric Clapton's
entourage" and then "a guitarist".
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This great blues guitarist from Mali is - for me at least - one of the very few that can match Stevie Ray Vaughan. I therefore like to introduce him here.