During the 1980s blues made a resurgence in popularity and Stevie Ray Vaughan was one of the front runners. His blues style was different than other styles of blues and was something people had rarely heard before, if at all. He became known as one of the best guitar players in the industry and worked with some of the biggest names around. Vaughan grew up in a house of music listening to all kinds of swing and hillbilly music, but it wasn’t until his brother, Jimmie, started bringing home blues records that he really began to connect with music. From a young age Vaughan was interested in the guitar. He would sit in his room for hours at a time listening to his favorite artists, like B.B. King, Albert King, Otis Rush, and Buddy Guy, and mimic their playing. These blues artists dug deep to create their sound and that is what really spoke to Vaughan and his brother. They grew up feeling the way these men played. From then on all Vaughan could think about was playing the music. By the time he was in high school, Vaughan had already begun making his impact on the music community. Vaughan’s style of music was called the Texas blues. The genre had a variety of …show more content…
B.B. King said in an interview once that “playing the blues was like having to be black twice, Stevie Ray Vaughan missed on both counts, but I never noticed” (Nash, “Robin Trower…”). Buddy Guy said “Stevie was the best friend I ever had, the best guitarist I ever heard, and the best person anyone will ever know” (Dougherty, Sandler, and Austin, “A Wisconsin…”). These musicians and others didn’t care that Vaughan was white, they saw how much passion he had for the blues and that was all that