Video: Steve Ray Vaughan - The Sky is Crying ( Albert and BB King)

(Each Thursday, we celebrate music before 1990) The Stevie Ray Vaughn Memorial Statue in Austin, TX It's difficult for those of us who picked up a six-string at a young age to evaluate Stevie Ray Vaughan objectively. Others might argue that his music is derivative, banal, even (gasp) boring. And perhaps they are correct. But for those who spent time listening to records and trying to distinguish Stratocasters from Telecasters , SRV was a god. Like a transcendent athlete or a [...]

A good friend sent me this link. I had not seen a clip of these three great guitar players together at the same time.

Blues is a genre that continues to inspire me everyday for it's pure soul and emotional outpourings in musical form. Nothing in my mind is a better example of this than a great blues jam between a bunch of amazing musicians, each seeming to inspire the others to new heights. What could be a better blues jam than "The Sky is Crying", a blues classic, done by the one and only Albert King, with young Stevie Ray Vaughan as a guest guitarist AND the legendary B.B. King? Well, nothing much that's what, so when I caught [...]