There’s a heart-stopping moment in the film The Shawshank Redemption when Andy Dufresne crawls to freedom through what Morgan Freeman’s character Red narrates as “five-hundred yards of shit-smelling ...
It's been 29 years since Texas guitar great Stevie Ray Vaughan died in a Bell 206 helicopter crash in East Troy, Wis., on Aug. 27, 1990. Before he died he played a final gig with Eric Clapton and ...
Davis and his bandmate Joseph Scott are the songwriters of “Texas Flood.” Though Davis famously sings about Texas, he wasn’t actually from there. Born in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, in 1936, Davis grew up ...
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The indelible image of legendary guitarist Stevie Ray Vaughan is him standing at the front of the stage, growling into the microphone, and doing things to the guitar no one will ever completely ...
This story was originally published Aug. 27, 2015. Before the last song of the last show of a two-night stand at Alpine Valley Music Theatre, guitar legend Eric Clapton stepped up to the microphone.
To many six-string players, the Dallas, Texas-born Stevie Ray Vaughan is one of if not the greatest electric guitar player of all time. The man’s fingers were like octopuses, capable of moving and ...