Stevie Ray Vaughan

USA, 1971–1990

Texas guitarist (1954-1990) who led the band Double Trouble. Texas Flood (1983) and its successors returned electric blues to the American mainstream in a decade when it had largely left it.

MusicRoots documents 5 artists who influenced Stevie Ray Vaughan and 0 artists Stevie Ray Vaughan influenced in turn. Every connection cites a published source.

Who influenced Stevie Ray Vaughan?

• Jimi Hendrix — Vaughan openly built his repertoire around Hendrix covers.
• B.B. King — Vaughan's blues phrasing inherits from B.B. King.
• Albert King — Albert King was Vaughan's major influence — the two met and played together in 1976, and King's string-bending phrasing is all over SRV's leads.
• Django Reinhardt — Vaughan admired jazz guitarists led by Django Reinhardt — the gypsy-jazz phrasing informing his more melodic playing.
• Buddy Guy — Guy was one of the guitarists Vaughan learned from at home, on the records his older brother Jimmie brought back — the Chicago end of the blues vocabulary he later played through a Texas amplifier.