“He redirected the future of blues guitar from his very first release, and his influence continues to inspire new generations of aspiring players”: Joe Bonamassa pays tribute to the late, great Stevie Ray Vaughan

Joe Bonamassa wails on a Fender Strat (LEFT) while the late blues legend Stevie Ray Vaughan takes a solo on his number one Strat.

It has come to my attention that, of all of the columns I’ve created for GW, I have yet to talk about the great Stevie Ray Vaughan. Oh my god!

As a child of the ’70s, in 1983, when I was all of six years old, there were two guitar players that changed the game for me: on the rock side, it was Eddie Van Halen.