Video: Stevie Ray Vaughan - Texas Flood (Long version!)

jhnmyr : 20 years ago today, the world lost one of the best guitar players of all time, Stevie Ray Vaughan. Stevie defined my love of blues music and my passion to spend as many waking hours as I could with a guitar in my hands. I never met him and I never saw him play live, but he changed my life forever. Stevie quite literally gave me a career in music. Today I'm not John Mayer the famous musician, I'm John, the kid from the Connecticut suburbs who discovered a style of music that [...]

(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 [...]

Party was a success I must say, there was a dinosaur, a dj, and more brands of beer than I could count. Even though it looks like Ike is gonna pass us by with minimal effect, I feel like bunkering down today anyway -besides I wouldn't want to let my duct tape, bottled water, beans, and batteries go to waste. Well theres floodin down in texas....all of the telephone lines are down And Ive been tryin to call my baby....lord and I cant get a single sound Well dark clouds are rollin in....man Im standin out in the [...]