When I think “Red Hot Blues,” I think Stevie Ray Vaughn. We were able to see him at The Woodlands Pavilion in the summer of 1990, less than a month before he died in a helicopter crash in southern Wisconsin in route to Chicago. Stevie was the “Prince of the Blues.”
As part of an American Music Series at Lone Star College, I will be doing a Texas Blues Guitar Men session tomorrow. There is no way to do justice to Texas’s many great Blues musicians. I wasn’t sure where I would start until attending last week’s session conducted by Steve Davis on Sixties Rock-n-Roll, in which he ended with Jimi Hendrix. The door was open to begin my session with Hendrix’s version of Voodoo Child, followed by SRV’s version. After starting with Hendrix and SRV, I will cover Chris Duarte, Albert Collins, Johnny Clyde Copeland, and Sherman Robertson, ending with SRV and Copeland doing Tin Pan Alley. The session will utilize some or all of the following selections on YouTube: