“Muddy Waters told my dad, ‘Jimmie, when I’m gone, teach everybody how to play like that.’ He liked the way he played slide”: He's the son of Jimmie Vaughan and the nephew of SRV, now he’s carrying the weight of his family playing legacy

Tyrone Vaughan.

Tyrone Vaughan was 17 when his uncle, Stevie Ray Vaughan, died in 1990. “Texas shut down for a couple of months, if not a whole year,” he tells Guitar World. “It was just hanging your head, trying to figure out what happened.”

Tyrone’s father, Jimmie Vaughan, even stopped playing guitar for a time. “It took him a year or two to get things together and get back out there – but he did with the Strange Pleasure record.”