By Alan Paul and Andy Aledort The first time that Buddy Guy, quite possibly the greatest living blues guitarist, heard Stevie Ray Vaughan play, he couldn’t believe it.

Maybe now we see why Stevie Ray wasn’t on the dime when he came so close to death after playing the Pfalzbau in Ludwigshafen, September 28, on the German leg of his 1986 European tour. Not just him.

Stevie Ray Vaughan (1954-1990), U.S. blues guitarist, playing the guitar during a live concert performance at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, 6 May 1990.

From left to right: Paul Matson (Buddy stafffer), Roy Mora (contest winner), David Williams (also of Buddy) and Stevie Ray Vaughan. (Photo by Kirby Warnock) His hometown is also set to make up for ...

Like Stevie Ray Vaughan, Gary Clark Jr cut his teeth as a performer in Texas – at Autsin's legendary Antone's no less – and he proved the perfect choice to play a tribute to the late bluesman at the ...

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.

An exclusive excerpt from new Stevie Ray Vaughan biography 'Texas Flood' delves into the guitar legend's collaboration with David Bowie.

He will join Paul Childers at the night's event, Paul Childers Honors Stevie Ray Vaughan with Clark Beckham. This will be Childers' fourth show at Songbirds honoring a specific guitarist.

When Stevie Ray Vaughan died in a helicopter crash in 1990, the world lost perhaps its greatest living guitarist and an inspiration to other recovering addicts.

Stevie Ray Vaughan would have turned 56 this October. Their last conversation (after that final gig with Eric Clapton and Robert Cray at Alpine Valley in East Roy, Wis.) was a trifle.