Stevie Ray Vaughan High School Yearbook 1970

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Stevie Ray Vaughan
Stevie Ray Vaughan performing on the television series
Austin City Limits
in 1989
Background information
Birth name
Stephen Ray Vaughan
Born
October 3, 1954
Dallas
, Texas, U.S.
Died
August 27, 1990 (aged 35)
East Troy
, Wisconsin
Genres
Blues rock
electric blues
Texas blues
Occupation(s)
Musician
singer
songwriter
record producer
Instruments
Guitar
Years active
1965
[1]
–1990
Labels
Epic
Legacy
Sony
Associated acts
Marc Benno
Denny Freeman
Lou Ann Barton
W. C. Clark
Double Trouble
David Bowie
Albert King
Lonnie Mack
The Fabulous Thunderbirds
Jeff Beck
Jimmie Vaughan
Joe Cocker
James Brown
Website
www
.srvofficial
.com
This is one of only two High School Yearbooks Stevie appears in. This was not the High School Stevie Attended.
Stephen Ray Vaughan
(October 3, 1954 – August 27, 1990) was an
American
musician, singer, songwriter, and record producer. In spite of a short-lived mainstream career spanning seven years, he was one of the most influential
guitarists
in the revival of blues in the 1980s.
AllMusic
describes him as "a rocking powerhouse of a guitarist who gave blues a burst of momentum in the '80s, with influence still felt long after his tragic death."
[2]
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."
[3]
Vaughan received several music awards during his lifetime and posthumously. In 1983, readers of
Guitar Player
voted him 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 posthumously 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.
[4]
In 2015, he was inducted into the
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
.
[5]
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