A mural painted by Steve Hunter at Stevie Ray Vaughan Park in Cockrell Hill shows Stevie Ray's first performance with Jimmie Vaughan's band, the Swinging Pendulums. Emily Nava / KERA News Stevie Ray ...

A mural painted by Steve Hunter at Stevie Ray Vaughan Park in Cockrell Hill shows Stevie Ray's first performance with Jimmie Vaughan's band, the Swinging Pendulums. The city of Cockrell Hill is ...

Stevie Ray Vaughan wasn’t much older than the South Park gang when he first appeared on stage with his older brother Jimmie at the Cockrell Hill Jubilee. The 1965 celebration took place at the Hill ...

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 ...

Yesterday marked the 20th anniversary of Stevie Ray Vaughan's untimely death, but so overstuffed with life is the music he left behind that it hardly seems possible that he's gone. Texas born Vaughn ...

Editor's note: This story was originally published on Sept. 1, 1990. It is republished here to mark the 25th anniversary of Vaughan's death. DALLAS - As hundreds of fans watched and wept under a ...

A new biography of blues guitarist Stevie Ray Vaughan deepens the sense of tragedy about his death after a concert at East Troy's Alpine Valley Music Theatre in 1990. Alan Paul and Andy Aledort's ...

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.