The Latest Breaking News from Stevie Ray Vaughan

Told to get clean or he had two weeks to live, guitar great Stevie Ray Vaughan did, and recorded his greatest album

How Stevie Ray Vaughan put blues music back in business

Louder · May 23, 2024

“I went for the lowest-priced one. My heart broke as I handed my jazz box over. However, as soon as I pulled that Strat down, sadness was replaced with joy”: Nile Rodgers on how he found The Hitmaker – and how the Fender Strat changed the world

The funk guitar superstar looks back at trading in his old Barney Kessel for the budget Strat that would go on to become The Hitmaker – the fabled instrument heard on Get Lucky, Le Freak and countless others

Guitar World · May 21, 2024

“Watching a player like Stevie Ray Vaughan play, you begin to understand how much violence the guitar can actually take”: Larkin Poe's Rebecca Lovell on why the secret to great Strat tone is in the right hand

From blues riffs to heavier rock tones, Lovell reveals how she leverages the Strat to create a distinctive sound for Larkin Poe

Guitar World · May 2, 2024

“It actually gave me more Hendrix vibes than Stevie vibes”: Watch what happens when you play a Strat through a cranked Super Reverb in an empty warehouse

Pedal Pawn’s Chris King Robinson conducts an experiment that shows how strange and magical things happen when you dime old tube amps in large, empty spaces

MusicRadar · Apr 23, 2024

"Stevie liked a clean sound. He really didn't turn everything up until the last song": Stevie Ray Vaughan's tech Rene Martinez remembers his boss, friend and blues guitar legend

Classic interview: "The way he had it configured was so that everything acted like one big gigantic speaker"

MusicRadar · Apr 22, 2024

“It’s kind of sad that sax or trumpet players can get up there and play like Miles and people appreciate it. But if a guitar player does that, some people think, ‘Oh, that guy has no chops’”: Scott Henderson on virtuosity and musical journeys

Returning with a new instrumental album seamlessly fusing rock, blues and jazz, Scott Henderson checks in to talk gear, style and what we can learn from vocals and horn

Guitar World · Apr 22, 2024

Someone has turned their John Mayer PRS Silver Sky guitar into an SRV Number One Strat tribute and it looks much better than you might think

This Silver Sky ain't crying

MusicRadar · Apr 22, 2024

“A lot of kids are getting millions of hits because they can play Eruption. If you want to impress me, write Eruption”: Jesse Dayton is glad he didn’t have a hit years ago – it might have taken away his freedom

Fresh from his “Bonnie and Clyde” success with Samantha Fish, the six-string outlaw talks low-string droning, Texas storytelling and why it’s worth struggling with vintage gear – in the studio at least

Guitar World · Apr 16, 2024

Learn the greatest licks from over 100 years of trailblazing blues guitarists, from Robert Johnson to B.B. King, Buddy Guy, Eric Gales and more

These 15 must-learn licks take you from blues guitar's acoustic beginnings to its electric present day

Guitar World · Apr 10, 2024

“I can only say I am 1,000% happy with the end result”: Seymour Duncan and Eric Gales team up for a pickup set to give your S-style a “perfect balance of vintage warmth and modern clarity”

We might not be able to play like the blues-rock phenom but now we can feed our Strat what Gales' Magneto RawDog has been eating

MusicRadar · Apr 10, 2024