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Article: Vaughan, Stevie Ray
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Stevie Ray Vaughan
Guitarist
For the Record
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Selected discography
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Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble
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s 1982 appearance at the Montreux Jazz Festival signalled the beginning of yet another blues revival and another guitar hero. Vaughan
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s mixture of Texas blues and Jimi Hendrix-inspired rock helped open the door for acts like the Fabulous Thunderbirds, Robert Cray, Los Lobos, and a host of other authentic roots bands.
Vaughan
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s earliest exposure to music came from his parents. While neither of them were musicians, they held many dance parties at their house in the Oak Cliff suburb of Dallas. At other times, members of Bob Wills
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s band (the ...