Here is a nice review of the Vaughan Brother's "Family Style" from blogcritics.
Jimmie and Stevie Ray Vaughan's Family Style Celebrates Music and ...
Blogcritics.org, OH
When Texas tornado Stevie Ray Vaughan's debut album, Texas Flood, was released in 1982, it signaled a new era in blues music. Combining rock, blues, R&B ...
Blues Fest and Jazz Fest to be shortened
Chicago Sun-Times, United States
BY FRAN SPIELMAN Staff Reporter Blues Fest and Jazz Fest, two of the city's most popular outdoor music festivals, will be reduced from four days to three ...
Inaugural Chicago Bluegrass & Blues Festival Saturday, Nov. 22
Cybergrass
While rooted in the foot-stomping influences of bluegrass and blues, the Festival will transport the concertgoer through the genre-defying evolution of ...
Jazz-QuadHowlin' Wolf's 'Rockin' The Blues: Live In Germany 1964'
Jazz-Quad, Belarus - 6 hours ago
The soon-to-be-released Rockin' the Blues: Live in Germany 1964, due out in the US on November 11 on the Acrobat Music label, captures the Wolf in his prime ...
Well there is little chance that a blues fan hasn't thought about picking up a guitar and learning to play; I play as do many of my reader most likely. I own a partscaster, a Squier Tele, and my most recent addition from this week end is a Fender MIM Standard Stratocaster. My new Fender I bought because, 1) it's a Fender and 2) it's basically the esintial blues guitar. Yes there are other guitars played by blues players like the Telecastor or unfortunatlly something made buy Gibson, but usually the first thing that comes to mind is a Stratocaster. When we think Stratocaster we most likely come to think of Stevie Ray Vaughan very quickly (Buddy Guy too). Boy did he have alot of strats, there are articles across the web about his Strats. People study what they were made out of and how they worked, creating a bizarre scientific wealth of knowledge about these guitars.
University Daily Kansan, KS
She turned her passion for blues music into a career. Schwartz, associate professor of musicology, recently received the 2008 Award for Excellence in ...
Searching for Robert Johnson from Vanity Fair.
Play by Play
Play by Play, MO
Over the past few years, I have increasingly become a big fan of blues music and I had heard a little here and there about Joe Bonamassa, how he had been a ...
Examiner.com
Examiner.com
Lordy, Chicago Blues Examiner Over the years of covering live blues music in and around Chicago, I have seen many venues come and go.
via About.com BluesBack in July, I wrote about Bobby Brown, brother of legendary blues artist Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown, and local Orange, Texas educator Robert Finch and their efforts to raise funds to...
On this day he would have been 52 years old. He certainly would have been bald by now. You see that's why he always wore a hat; he was going bald.It's interesting for me to try talking about him; you see I was only two when he died. I honest can remember ever listening to him till about three years ago. I mean I had probably heard him at one time seeing as I grew up in Oklahoma but I never really knew who I was listening to. I honestly didn't know who I was listing to two years ago. The first CD I heard him on was one I had checked out at a local library; it was "Martin Scorsese Presents The Best of Stevie Ray Vaughan". At the time I was still getting into the blues and listing mostly to harmonica players like James Cotton and Paul Butterfield; I hadn't yet begun to get into the guitar. (I mainly was interested in the harmonica because it was cheaper to play. It took Buddy Guy to hook me onto the guitar) Flash forward a couple of months during which I got into the Allman Brothers and Eric Clapton; I came back to this CD of Stevie Ray Vaughan. This time I know what I was hearing but I hadn't yet grasped the significance, but I was hooked so the next thing I did was order "Texas Flood" and a book called Stevie Ray Vaughan : Caught in the Crossfire.
It was that book that first really let me get to know him better than I had known any other musician. You can't learn everything off Wikipedia. I learned about the man and then I listened to his music and it stagers me still to this day. It's almost indefinable and I really can't come up with words that can really express how I feel about him; which I guess is why I'm just going have to devote most of this month to him. (Mainly him but who knows what kind of news with show up). But I really don't even think that this month can even begin to express how I feel about him, and neither can the SRV stickers I have on the back of my car. All I can say is that this month I'm sure going to try.
Why a month? Why didn't I mention Stevie on the anniversary of his death?
First I don't think you should remember someone on the time that they left us but rather at the time that the joined up. Stevie was born on October 3rd that is why I am celebrating him in the month of October.
Well I have some ideas. I'm going to share links, videos, information I've found, and my opinions. I've got all of Stevie's CDs so I'm probably going to talk about them.
No I'm sure I could but there is all sorts of blues news and such that come up that I like to share.
Got any other questions? Then feel free to ask me.
