Guitar Lifestyle

Albert King and Stevie Ray Vaughan In Session on DVD

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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 … [Read more...]

SRV 20th Anniversary Tribute Show

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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 … [Read more...]

Stevie Ray Vaughan Playing Little Wing and Third Stone From the Sun

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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 … [Read more...]

Stevie Ray Vaughan on Rosewood Fretboards

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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 … [Read more...]