AUSTIN, Texas — Stevie Ray Vaughan would have turned 71 years old on Friday, Oct. 3, had his life not been cut short in a helicopter crash in 1990.
Vaughan grew up in Dallas at a time when – like many kids who grew up in the 1950’s – he had a typical, suburban, middle-class family life.
An early picture from a family photo album shows a young Stevie Ray playing a small guitar as he practices a song with his older brother Jimmy…