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Guitar World
Guitar World
Entertainment
Damian Fanelli

Watch Albert King reunite, jam with Stevie Ray Vaughan in 1983: “There's a lot of guitar players that just play fast, they don't concentrate on soul – but you got ’em both”

Stevie Ray Vaughan (left) and Albert King perform on television in 1983

On December 6, 1983, up-and-coming guitar god Stevie Ray Vaughan got together with blues legend Albert King at CHCH-TV studios in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. The result was one hell of a jam session – that almost didn't even happen.

Initially, King wasn't going to do the show because he apparently didn't know who Vaughan was. As in, he didn't realize Vaughan was actually ”Little Stevie,” that skinny kid who used to sit in with King when he performed in Texas. Of course, once he realized who Vaughan was, it was smiles all around.

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