For your listening pleasure is this video of a live Stevie Ray Vaughan show in Nashville from 1987:

The set list from the show is:

1.Scuttle Buttin’
2.Soul to Soul
3.Look at Little Sister
4.Mary had a Little Lamb
5.Superstition
6.Cold Shot
7.Voodoo Chile
8.Life without You

I was browsing YouTube for videos this morning and found this Stevie Ray Vaughan concert where is performing at the Pistoia Blues Festival in Pistoia, Italy on July 3, 1988. The setlist for this concert is:

1. Scuttle Buttin’
2. Say What
3. Lookin’ Out The Window
4. Look At Little Sister
5. Mary Had A Little Lamb
6. Pride And Joy
7. Texas Flood
8. Superstition
9. Willie The Wimp
10. Couldn’t Stand The Weather

Check out the concert:

Stevie Ray Vaughan’s famed number one Stratocaster will be on display through October 14th at the Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum in Austin, TX as part of the Texas Music Roadtrip exhibit. This guitar is one of the most famous Stratocasters in history and has been kept in storage by Jimmie Vaughan since his brother’s death, so this is a unique opportunity to see the guitar up close. Also on display will be Jimmie Vaughan’s white ’63 Stratocaster that he used with the Fabulous Thunderbirds.

Photo credit: Andrew Horansky, KVUE News

Video photographer Greg Savage recorded these videos of Stevie Ray Vaughan doing a soundcheck in Pittsburgh, PA on January 24, 1986. The quality of these videos is pretty good considering they were made 25 years ago. How can you not sound good with a coat and hat like the one he’s wearing in these videos?

The first video features SRV playing the song “Scuttlebuttin’”:

The second video features SRV playing the song “Say What!”:

The third video features SRV playing the song “Ain’t Gone ‘n’ Give Up on Love”:

Writer Jas Obrecht has recently posted an interview he did with Stevie Ray Vaughan in 1989. The interview was for a Jimi Hendrix cover story for Guitar Player magazine, so they discuss Hendrix as well as details about recording In Step. Here’s Stevie discussing why Jimi was becoming more popular at that time:

I think a lot of people need what he had to offer musically – there was a lot of honesty in it. Yeah, there was a lot of drugs and things, but people are looking back because they miss something that’s here. A lot of people tend to look somewhere else for something that they want to fix them. His music, though, is wonderful. It’s full of emotion. It’s full of fire. At different points it’s full of different things. It’s full of light and heavy things, you know, feelings. By “light feelings” I mean uplifting feelings, and “heavy” – well, you know what “heavy” means! It could mean anything from one day to the next, really. But I think a lot of people miss what his music was doing for them. A lot of new people are coming around to going, “What’s this?!” In very few instances has anybody surpassed what he did. And it should be popular! It’s a damn shame that he’s dead and gone, and now is when people are listening. But, at the same time, I’m glad they’re listening!

With SRV’s passing just a short year after the interview, I think much of what he said can now apply to his music.

Read the full interview here.

This photo of Stevie Ray Vaughan has always had an impact on me:

Photo credit: Copyright © 1997 – W.A. Williams

The 1983 In Session recording of Stevie Ray Vaughan playing with Albert King will finally be released on DVD on November 9. The set list featured mostly Albert King’s music with the notable exception of King playing with SRV on SRV’s “Pride and Joy”.

I’ve had the CD version of this recording since it first came out about 10 years ago, and I’m really looking forward to finally being able to watch the performance on DVD.

As I mentioned last week, this past Friday marked the 20th anniversary of Stevie Ray Vaughan’s tragic and untimely death. To pay tribute to SRV, the members of Double Trouble (Reese Wynans, Chris Layton, and Tommy Shannon) got together at a small club here in Nashville with a number of guitarists and played much of Stevie’s recorded catalog of music. I was able to attend the show and witnessed nearly four hours of excellent music. It was an unbelievable experience to be able to see Double Trouble play the music that has affected me so much over the years. Anthony Stauffer, from StevieSnacks.com, also attended the show and was able to record some clips, which he has posted on YouTube:

Here’s a video of Stevie Ray Vaughan playing Jimi Hendrix’s “Little Wing”, with a small bit of “Third Stone from the Sun” thrown in. I’ve said before that Stevie Ray Vaughan is one of my favorite guitar players. There’s just something about his playing that reaches me on an emotional level, and “Little Wing” is one of those songs that when Stevie plays it, I feel it as much as hear it.

(via Chris Jankowski)

Stevie Ray Vaughan, in an October 1984 interview with Guitar Player Magazine, responding to the question “Do any of your guitars have maple necks?”:

Lenny does. It has a real clear tone, and the pickups are microphonic-you can hear it when you hit the pickguard. But when you play it soft, it sounds great. When I first got the guitar, it had a rosewood fretboard, but it was thinner, and that bothered me. So I put a copy of a Fender maple neck on there that Billy Gibbons gave me. I like the rosewood necks usually, because, for one thing, when you sweat, you don’t get blisters. It seems like the finish on a maple neck gets hotter, and there’s more friction. As hard as I play and as much as I sweat, I get sore enough as it is. There’s a fatter sound on the rosewood, as far as I can tell. It’s not as bright. The ebony fretboard seems a little clearer, but it’s fat, too.

I’ve previously expressed my preference for rosewood fretboards. It’s interesting to hear Stevie Ray’s opinion on the matter.