Stevie Ray Vaughan And Double Trouble music video Love Struck Baby
Stevie Ray Vaughan And Double Trouble music video Cold Shot
Stevie Ray Vaughan And Double Trouble music video Couldn't Stand The Weather
Stevie Ray Vaughan And Double Trouble music video Change It
Stevie Ray Vaughan And Double Trouble music video Superstition
Stevie Ray Vaughan And Double Trouble music video I'm Leaving You (Commit A Crime) (Live)
Stevie Ray Vaughan And Double Trouble music video The House Is Rockin'
Stevie Ray Vaughan And Double Trouble music video Crossfire
Stevie Ray Vaughan And Double Trouble music video Little Wing
Stevie Ray Vaughan And Double Trouble music video Rude Mood (Acoustic) (From "MTV Unplugged")
Stevie Ray Vaughan And Double Trouble music video Pride And Joy (Acoustic) (From "MTV Unplugged")
Stevie Ray Vaughan And Double Trouble music video Testify (Acoustic) (From "MTV Unplugged")
Vaughan Brothers (Jimmie Vaughan And Stevie Ray Vaughan) music video Tick Tock
Vaughan Brothers (Jimmie Vaughan And Stevie Ray Vaughan) music video Good Texan
Vaughan Brothers (Jimmie Vaughan And Stevie Ray Vaughan) music video Good Texan
Vaughan Brothers (Jimmie Vaughan And Stevie Ray Vaughan) music video Tick Tock
Stevie Ray Vaughan And Double Trouble music video The House Is Rockin'
Stevie Ray Vaughan And Double Trouble music video Little Wing
Stevie Ray Vaughan And Double Trouble music video The House Is Rockin'
Stevie Ray Vaughan And Double Trouble music video Superstition
Stevie Ray Vaughan And Double Trouble music video Superstition
Born and raised in Dallas, Texas, Vaughan began playing guitar at the age of seven, inspired by his older brother Jimmie. In 1971 he dropped out of high school, and moved to Austin the following year. He played gigs with numerous bands, earning a spot in Marc Benno's band, the Nightcrawlers, and later with Denny Freeman in the Cobras, with whom he continued to work through late 1977. He then formed his own group, Triple Threat Revue, before renaming the band Double Trouble after hiring drummer Chris Layton and bassist Tommy Shannon. He gained fame after his performance at the Montreux Jazz Festival in 1982, and in 1983 his debut studio album, Texas Flood, charted at number 38. The ten-song album was a commercially successful release that sold over half-a-million copies. After achieving sobriety in late 1986, he headlined concert tours with Jeff Beck in 1989 and Joe Cocker in 1990 before his death in a helicopter crash on August 27, 1990, at the age of 35.
Vaughan was inspired musically by American and British blues rock. He favored clean amplifiers with high volume and contributed to the popularity of vintage musical equipment. He often combined several different amplifiers together and used minimal effects pedals. Chris Gill of Guitar World commented: "Stevie Ray Vaughan's guitar tone was as dry as a San Antonio summer and as sparkling clean as a Dallas debutante, the product of the natural sound of amps with ample clean headroom. However, Vaughan occasionally used pedals to augment his sound, mainly to boost the signal, although he occasionally employed a rotating speaker cabinet and wah pedals for added textural flair."
Vaughan received several music awards during his lifetime and posthumously. In 1983, readers of Guitar Player voted him as Best New Talent and Best Electric Blues Guitar Player. In 1984, the Blues Foundation named him Entertainer of the Year and Blues Instrumentalist of the Year, and in 1987 Performance Magazine honored him with Rhythm and Blues Act of the Year. Earning six Grammy Awards and ten Austin Music Awards, he was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame in 2000 and the Musicians Hall of Fame in 2014. Rolling Stone ranked Vaughan as the twelfth greatest guitarist of all time.