Learning by ear he diligently committed himself, following along to songs by the Nightcaps, particularly "Wine, Wine, Wine" and "Thunderbird". In 1961, for his seventh birthday, Vaughan received his first guitar, a toy guitar from Sears with a Western motif. In the early 1960s, Vaughan's admiration for his brother Jimmie resulted in his trying different instruments such as the drums and saxophone. His father died on August 27, 1986, exactly four years before Vaughan himself. In later years, Vaughan recalled that he had been a victim of his father's violence. His father struggled with alcohol abuse and often terrorized his family and friends with his bad temper. A shy and insecure boy, Vaughan was deeply affected by his childhood experiences. The family moved frequently and lived in other states such as Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Oklahoma before ultimately moving to the Oak Cliff section of Dallas. Big Jim secured a job as an asbestos worker.
Stevie was born at Methodist Hospital on October 3, 1954, in Dallas. After his discharge from the military, he married Martha Jean ( née Cook 1928–2009) on January 13, 1950. Jimmie Vaughan, also known as Jim and Big Jim, dropped out of school at age sixteen and enlisted in the U.S. Stevie's father, Jimmie Lee Vaughan, was born on September 6, 1921. Vaughan's grandfather, Thomas Lee Vaughan, married Laura Belle LaRue and moved to Rockwall County, Texas where they lived by sharecropping. Vaughan was posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2015, along with Double Trouble bandmates Chris Layton, Tommy Shannon, and Reese Wynans. In 2003, David Fricke of Rolling Stone ranked him the seventh greatest guitarist of all time. Vaughan's music continued to achieve commercial success with several posthumous releases and has sold over 15 million albums in the United States alone. An investigation concluded that the cause of the accident was pilot error and Vaughan's family later filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Omniflight Helicopters which was settled out of court. On August 27, 1990, Vaughan and four others were killed in a helicopter crash in East Troy, Wisconsin, after performing with Double Trouble at Alpine Valley Music Theatre. He became one of the world's most highly demanded blues performers, and he headlined Madison Square Garden in 1989 and the Beale Street Music Festival in 1990. His fourth and final studio album In Step reached number 33 in the United States in 1989 it was one of Vaughan's most critically and commercially successful releases and included his only number-one hit, "Crossfire". He successfully completed rehabilitation and began touring again with Double Trouble in November 1986.
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He also struggled with the personal and professional pressures of fame and his marriage to Lenora "Lenny" Bailey. Playing his guitar behind his back or plucking the strings with his teeth as Jimi Hendrix did, he earned fame in Europe, which later resulted in breakthroughs for guitar players like Robert Cray, Jeff Healey, Robben Ford, and Walter Trout, amongst others.ĭuring the majority of his life, Vaughan struggled with alcoholism and drug addiction.
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With a series of successful network television appearances and extensive concert tours, Vaughan became the leading figure in the blues revival of the 1980s. Within months, they achieved mainstream success for the critically acclaimed debut album Texas Flood. Bowie contacted him for a studio gig which resulted in Vaughan playing blues guitar on the album Let's Dance (1983), before being discovered by John Hammond who interested major label Epic Records in signing Vaughan and his band to a record deal. He performed at the Montreux Jazz Festival in 1982, where David Bowie saw him play. Vaughan joined forces with Tommy Shannon on bass and Chris Layton on drums as Double Trouble in 1978 and established it as part of the Austin music scene it soon became one of the most popular acts in Texas.
In 1972, he dropped out of high school and moved to Austin, where he began to gain a following after playing gigs on the local club circuit. Although his mainstream career spanned only seven years, he is regarded as one of the most influential musicians in the history of blues music, and one of the greatest guitarists of all time.īorn and raised in Dallas, Vaughan began playing guitar at age seven, initially inspired by his elder brother, Jimmie Vaughan. Stephen Ray Vaughan (Octo– August 27, 1990) was an American musician, best known as the guitarist and frontman of the blues rock trio Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble.
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