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Bob Dylan brings Jimmie Vaughan back into the fold as guitarist shake‑ups continue on tour

Bob Dylan has added Jimmie Vaughan to his live band for a Nashville show, marking another lineup reshuffle following recent guitarist changes.

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From Hendrix’s pyrotechnics to Cory Wong’s hot-buttered funk, for 72 years the Strat has revolutionized how we play guitar. These are the 25 players who wrote – and burnt – the playbook

The Fender Stratocaster would just be a glorified carpentry project without the players who danced across its neck and gave it life. Here we celebrate 25 of the best

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“I contacted Stevie Ray Vaughan’s amp tech. He approached amps the way a tailor fits a suit. Watching him work was like seeing magic happen”: Philip Sayce on the gear that changed him – and how he learned to wield it

The high-energy blues-rocker – who missed out on buying one of his dream instruments only to find it again years later – explains what he picked up from Jeff Healey, Melissa Etheridge and almost every player he listened to

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“Whether the long story he gave was real or not, it doesn’t matter”: Teen blues prodigy reunited with his stolen Stevie Ray Vaughan Strat

Rhys John Stygal received support from Joe Bonamassa after his Number One guitar was stolen in Austin, Texas, last month

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“The crowds hated us! They were only there to see Stevie Ray, and they didn’t give us a chance... One night he called me on stage, and he handed me a Strat”: Brian Setzer on what he learned playing Stevie Ray Vaughan’s Stratocaster

Stray Cats hit the road with the blues legend back in 1989, giving Setzer the chance to learn the truth behind the SRV tone rumors

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“I always felt like Fender hit the sweet spot with those guitars. All my heroes – Clapton, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Knopfler, Buddy Guy – were playing them”: Philip Sayce on the greatest Strats, his tone secrets – and why he always has a Silver Sky in the mix

The tone gourmand talks new vs vintage Strats, hiring SRV's amp tech, and the guitar he calls Big Daddy

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“There were just ideas pouring out of him… then he got on that helicopter and took off”: The legacy of Stevie Ray Vaughan, and what could have been

How SRV followed Texas Flood, wrestled blues guitar from the club to MTV and became the guitar hero everyone wanted to copy – all before passing too soon

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“I spent hours in the studio on this one song. Pummelled it to death! I probably spent $10,000 trying to get it to work”: Joe Satriani on his biggest waste of money, his most humiliating review, and what he taught Kirk Hammett

“Kirk knew exactly what he liked – he was into Stevie Ray Vaughan, Hendrix, Schenker”

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“The argument about string gauges is the silliest thing a guitarist can engage in”: John Mayer on what really matters when choosing the guitar strings you use

Mayer once had his say on the ‘thicker strings equals thicker tone’ debate

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"Ma, I'm real sick. I need help. I got to come home": The trauma and triumph of Stevie Ray Vaughan

After almost dying at a London show, Stevie Ray Vaughan was given two weeks to live - it was the wake-up call he needed

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“When I listen to the record, it just sounds like me. Maybe that was the point to begin with. There was no point doing an anorak sounds-alike thing”: Why Joe Bonamassa’s tribute to Rory Gallagher didn’t turn out exactly as expected

“Getting Rory’s Strat from the National Museum would have taken an act of government!”

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“There are 1000s of hours on that guitar. I learned everything on it”: The teenage blues sensation hailed as the next Stevie Ray Vaughan has had his main guitar stolen – and Joe Bonamassa has issued a public plea for its return

Rhys John Stygal has received support from Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Jared James Nichols and Gary Glark Jr. after his guitar and pedalboard were stolen in Austin, Texas

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“It was a lot of trial and error with Dave – a lot of just trying to find out what worked, fine-tune it and then do it again”: Jimmie Vaughan on the Fabulous Thunderbirds’ Top 40 hit that got Al Bundy – and Hollywood’s – seal of approval

The year was 1986, London was calling for Jimmie Vaughan, where album sessions alongside Dave Edmunds led to a classic LP, and this is how it all went down

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“One of the most historically significant guitars in rock and roll”: Ace Frehley’s iconic 1975 Gibson Les Paul expected to sell for more than half a million dollars at auction

The Les Paul will be sold alongside stage-played guitars from Stevie Ray Vaughan, Kirk Hammett and Billy Duffy at an upcoming auction

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"The crowd seemed more concerned with the long lines at the beer taps." In 1984 Huey Lewis invited Stevie Ray Vaughan on tour - and he tanked

Huey Lewis remembers offering Stevie Ray Vaughan support after a disastrous opening set in Oklahoma

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“In the world of extended chords, this is as far as we can go”: Demystifying 13th chords, the voicing that Stevie Ray Vaughan used to stunning effect in Lenny

This primer in 13th chords will give you five voicings to use in your playing – and an explanation on how they get their name

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“Albert King took me aside. He said, ‘The biggest thing about music is you can’t play what people want you to play.’ My dad said that, too”: Bernard Allison grew up surrounded by blues legends – and hid the fact he was learning guitar for years

Luther Allison’s son played with Stevie Ray Vaughan for his 16th birthday, toured in a band where pedals were forbidden, and achieved his ambition of being in his father’s band, and even leading it

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“He snuck in without people realizing. The only giveaway was the white feather tail in his hat”: How Stevie Ray Vaughan gave Bernard Allison the surprise of his life at his 16th birthday gig

Allison thought he’d lost the chance to jam with his hero, then he noticed a tour bus passing the venue

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“I just couldn’t believe I was gonna be on a George Harrison record. He’d been listening to what the T-Birds had been doing”: Jimmie Vaughan on longevity, Strats and recording the Porky’s Revenge soundtrack – with a Beatle

A new Fabulous Thunderbirds box set is bursting with powerful stuff by Jimmie Vaughan & Co. – including an entire unreleased album from 1978. Here, Vaughan talks T-Birds and Strats and Fender amps, and tells us what flips his switch

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“The night he died, I was at Buddy Guy’s club waiting for Buddy, Stevie and Clapton. Then we were told they’d all gone down”: Larry McCray on rubbing shoulders with blues royalty and playing through Joe Bonamassa’s epic rig

Living blues legend Larry McCray is keeping on keeping on and keeping the blues alive, and on his latest LP, Heartbreak City, he's taking his guitar to places his voice can't reach

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“Sometimes we were recording a song and the power shut down because of the wind. Since we do everything live, we had to start over”: Assouf rockers Imarhan on how a Peavey amp, the weather and Stevie Ray Vaughan tapes were the making of their new album

Algerian desert rockers’ new release, Essam, fuses electronica with fuzzbox vibes, political flashpoints and ancient poetry. Call it desert blues if you like – but they don’t

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“I could never play a Strat – with Stevie Ray Vaughan being my first influence, every time I play one it’s like I’m 13 again, hacking through Pride And Joy”: Joanne Shaw Taylor on how the blues helped her find her voice, and why she'll always choose Teles

Having embarked on a journey from classical guitar to Stevie Ray Vaughan and Albert Collins, Taylor is determined to keep the blues alive... until she can open that dog shelter

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“A Tube Screamer is a Tube Screamer. It’s one of the great cons of the guitar industry. They got these dirt boxes right the first time!” Why Jared James Nichols stopped obsessing over gear – and honed in on his playing instead

Freedom, says Nichols, is the knowledge you can pick up anyone's guitar and sound like you, and now the Nashville-based Les Paul wrangler is finding that freedom in songwriting

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“I toured with Stevie Ray Vaughan when he was sober and he was a freak of nature. I couldn’t relate to his playing”: The Outlaws' Henry Paul on opening for The Rolling Stones, finding fame thanks to Lynyrd Skynyrd, and his one-of-one red Gretsch Falcon

The Gibson loyalist who’s served three stints with the Outlaws has been there, done that – played to stadium crowds, seen rock's greatest guitar heroes up close and witnessed prime-era Keith Moon debauchery

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“We were told they’d all gone down. You’ll never see a house full of people get so quiet, it was pin-drop silence – eventually we found out Buddy and Eric were okay”: Veteran bluesman Larry McCray recalls the night Stevie Ray Vaughan died

The famed Strat wielder passed away at the age of 35 in a helicopter crash outside East Troy, Wisconsin

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