Stevie Ray Vaughan

The 10 Texas Blues Albums You Must Hear Before You Die

Watching the Devil tune his guitar in the middle of the night isn't how Robert (or Tommy) Johnson imagined he'd be spending his Saturday night. When that ol' demon started playing songs, fire flew from his fingertips as an otherworldly sound reverberated into the night. According to legend, despite ... More >>

Gary Myrick on Working With Stevie Ray Vaughan, Wilson Pickett and Big Audio Dynamite

Born and raised in Dallas, Gary Myrick found his greatest success after moving to California and forming The Figures. In 1980, Gary Myrick & The Figures released a self-titled album that featured the new wave hit "She Talks in Stereo." The song, along with another Myrick original, ended up in the mo ... More >>

What Are You Thankful For?

Sitting around the house waiting for Turkey Day to roll around got me to thinking about all the things I'm thankful for. Of course, I'm lucky to have my family and friends and, these days, I am very thankful to have a job. But musically speaking, the Dallas scene has provided many a band, show and ... More >>

Q & A: Jimmie Vaughan Talks Dallas vs. Austin, Bob Dylan and Ron Paul

Guitarist and songwriter Jimmie Vaughan was born and raised in Dallas. In the early 1960's, Jimmie, along with his brother, Stevie Ray, helped usher in one of the best eras of music in North Texas. Although their father introduced the Vaughan brothers to country music, the two would soon find in ... More >>

Kirby Warnock Opens Buddy Vaults to Show Off Rare Early Pics of Stevie Ray, Jimmie Vaughan

I noted this a few weeks back, but for those who've forgotten: Jimmie Vaughan will make his Oak Cliff homecoming on Thursday with a show at the Texas Theatre, part of the ongoing "Soul of Oak Cliff" series organized by Kirby Warnock. And leading up to that momentous occasion, Warnock -- there at the ... More >>

Ten Songs That Will Maybe, Hopefully, Possibly Help Us Get A Little Rain in North Texas, Please.

​According to the National Weather Service, Tropical Storm Don is headed for Texas. Although this forecast sounds like something to be happy about -- Dallas could use some much-needed rain from Don's periphery -- CBS is reporting that North Texas will most likely see no effects from the storm, ... More >>

The Conversation: How Is Gentrification Affecting Austin's Music Scene?

Where will we go when Austin stops being so weird?​Anyone who has visited Austin's South By Southwest music festival more than once over the last decade has noticed a huge evolution in Austin's music scene. Most of Austin's longtime music lovers repeat the same cry year after year -- that this on ... More >>

For Your Weekend Listening Pleasure: Robert Cray and Stevie Ray at Club Redux For Q102

​Back in January 1987, if memory serves, Club Redux stood at the site of the present-day Taco Cabana on Lower Greenville, and that old Observer ad you see at right more or less hints at the kinds of acts that played there back when -- a little bit of this, a whole lotta that. But that advertisemen ... More >>

Back to the Cellar Club!

Back when we HQ'd downtown in the old KLIF building on Commerce, plenty of old-timers made note of the fact that, why, just across the street, matter of fact, was the old Cellar  -- the Dallas outpost of the Fort Worth mainstay that opened in '59 and birthed most of the blues-rock that would co ... More >>

Pedestrian Playlist: What Does The Executive Director of the Dallas Zoo Listen To?

Welcome to a new recurring feature here on DC9 where we talk to people of interest in the metroplex about their taste in music, including likes, dislikes, and guilty pleasures. We're calling it Pedestrian Playlist -- because, hey, everyone listens to music.I wonder what Turtles listen to?​The Dall ... More >>

More From This Weekend's Blues, Bandits and Barbecue Shindig in North Oak Cliff

Photos by Sam MertenSchutze's been having a tough time tracking down council member Dave Neumann for comments. So close.​As Robert pointed out below, Go Oak Cliff hosted the inaugural Blues, Bandits and Barbecue street party and Better Block Redux this weekend around the Kessler, where a clay ... More >>

Go Oak Cliff Shares Details on Sunday's "Ethical Meat" Barbecue Contest and Festival

​Teams have been practicing and judges (including two City of Ate contributors) are advised to begin fasting as Oak Cliff is about to get smoked out this weekend for the Blues, Bandits & Barbeque street party.The festival takes place outside and inside the Kessler Theater and surrounding neigh ... More >>

For Your Weekend Listening Pleasure: The "Lost" Stevie Ray Vaughan Recordings of '78

​Your week-ending farewell comes a little earlier than usual this week with good reason: Twenty years ago today, at around this very time, I was sitting at my desk at the Dallas Times Herald writing for the afternoon edition the front-page obituary for Stevie Ray Vaughan, who died in a helicopter ... More >>

For Your Weekend Listening Pleasure: The Texas Cannonball Takes Over The Zoo in '75

​When we took a long, deep hit of Foghat at January Sound Studio back in April, a Friend of Unfair Park was kind to remind: Freddie King also recorded a set there in '75 for KZEW. March 31, 1975, to be exact -- about a year and a half before the Gilmer-born guitar-slinger died of heart failure at ... More >>

Gig Alert: Pops Carter at Dan's Silverleaf Tonight

Some blues you can use: Tonight at Dan's Silverleaf in Denton, the 88-year-old Pops Carter will bust out his hardcore blues, funk and soul sound to teach the young folk a thing or two.Don't know Carter? You should; he's been living in Denton since 1969. His musical beginnings came out of Louisiana a ... More >>

Jimmie Vaughan Tells The New American That Our Country's Got The Nobody-Reads-The-Constitution-No-More Blues

The New American tends not to be anyone's first go-to source for arts and entertainment news, but, alas, that hasn't stopped the magazine from taking the time to check in with Dallas native, blues guitar legend and Stevie Ray sibling, Jimmie Vaughan this morning.Why? Well, mostly because Vaughan's n ... More >>

The Long Arm of the Law: Constable Jaime Cortes Talks Cesar Chavez

Gerard Dirkx Offers His Take On The Greatest DFW Rock Artists

Blues Dues

See some wise, old bluesmen in Grapevine

Back Door Slam

Thursday, January 17, at the House of Blues' Cambridge Room

Our top DVD picks for the week of November 6

Re*Cov*Ering Deep Ellum

Oddities

Still more sad stuff, plus the good news that the Longhorn will host a show

Please Release Me

Big ups to those who are gettin' down

The Icarus Line

Black Lives at the Golden Coast (V2)

He Sure as Heckfire Remembers You

Selling Stevie Ray

Look, It's The "Definitive 200" Albums of All Time. Sure, If You Don't Have Ears, Absolutely.

Get High Everybody, Get High

Didn't You Used to Be a Guitar Hero?

Deep Art

Deep Ellum comes alive in the daylight

So Blue

These musicians have the blues, but they're happy to be here

This Week's Day-By-Day Picks

2005 Dallas Observer Music Awards

Case Solved: Killer musicians captured, thanks to your tips

This Week's Day-By-Day Picks

Party Bard-y

Shakespeare's greatest guffaws and ha-has

Best Blues Club

Hole in the Wall

North Mississippi Allstars

51 Phantom (Tone-Cool)

Best Blues Club

Hole in the Wall

Pete Townshend

Live The Empire 1998 & Live Sadler's Wells 2000 (Eel Pie)

Texas weakly

The Monthly's music issue strikes a bum note

Rock this town

Or: Oh, look...it's another end-of-the-century list

Monte Montgomery

Letters

Night & Day

September 24 - 30, 1998

Little boy blues

Andrew Baxter Jr. may be a mere child, but the 11-year-old guitarist is no novelty

1998 Dallas Observer Music Awards Nominees

The glory of Bugs

Texas guitar hero Bugs Henderson wouldn't swap family for fame

Out There

Roadshows