CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
May 25, 2006 | From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Clifford Antone, owner of the namesake blues club in Austin, Texas, credited with launching the careers of Stevie Ray Vaughan and other musicians, died Tuesday. He was 56. Laura Albrecht, a spokeswoman for the Austin Police Department, said officers responded to a 911 call at Antone's home. The death did not appear to be suspicious, and the cause was being investigated. Fats Domino, John Lee Hooker and B.B.
NEWS
August 28, 1990 | ROBERT HILBURN, TIMES STAFF WRITER
Grammy-winning blues-rock guitarist Stevie Ray Vaughan was killed early Monday in a Wisconsin helicopter crash whose circumstances offered an eerie parallel to rock's most famous air tragedy--the 1959 crash involving Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. (the Big Bopper) Richardson.
ENTERTAINMENT
April 28, 1990 | ZAN STEWART
In an environment perked up by performances from pianist Dr. John, singer Irma Thomas, guitarist Stevie Ray Vaughan and singer/harmonica player John Mayall, the lineup for Benson and Hedges Blues, a weeklong blues festival to be held in the Southland in June, was announced Thursday at a press conference at the China Club in Hollywood. Blues greats B.B.
ENTERTAINMENT
September 20, 1990 | BETH KLEID, Arts and entertainment reports from The Times, national and international news services and the nation's press
Vaughan Charity: More than $26,000 has been donated to the Stevie Ray Vaughan Charitable Fund with Bruce Springsteen chipping in $10,000. The foundation, which will give the money to drug rehabilitation programs, also has received many heartfelt letters about Vaughan, the blues guitarist killed in a Wisconsin helicopter crash after a concert last month.
ENTERTAINMENT
December 1, 1991 | MIKE BOEHM
* * * Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble, "The Sky Is Crying," Epic. No posthumous dregs-dipping here: These 10 previously unreleased tracks form a good, varied collection of familiar pleasures (shuffles and slow blues) and fresh surprises. A gorgeous instrumental reading of Jimi Hendrix's "Little Wing" shows Vaughan at his inventive best, achieving a remarkable balance of restlessness and restraint, beauty and ferocity.
ENTERTAINMENT
January 3, 2009
Robin Givhan has it all wrong when she writes, "You walk away from the blues feeling drained and spent" ["Singing the Blues on Kennedy Awards," Dec. 26]. Not true. The blues is there to ease the pain, and hearing it with your heart wide open will always lift life up. It's like Stevie Ray Vaughan once said, "If the blues makes you sad, you're not listening right at all." Bill Bentley Studio City