When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Though he famously used heavy strings and a high action on his guitars, this isn’t essential to ...

The legacy of Stevie Ray Vaughan is not in his guitar playing. It’s in his heart. The blues was not born with the Texan guitarist, but it was given a second life. Twenty-five years after his death at ...

When Stevie Ray Vaughan was looking for a guitar tech, he knew just the man: Rene Martinez. He was an old acquaintance, a well-known luthier and repairman at Charley's Guitar Shop in Dallas. Stevie's ...

Though he’d typically flip to the neck/middle position pickup for glassy cleans, the quintessential SRV tone can be heard on Pride And Joy – a medium gain tone delivered in his Strat's neck position ...