Editing Stevie Ray Vaughan (section)

== Musical style ==
[[File:Stevie Ray Vaughan soundcheck in the studio in 1989.webm|thumb|Video of Stevie Ray Vaughan in Ardent studios in Memphis in 1989, doing a sound check before recording a solo for Italian artist Zucchero.]]
Vaughan's music was rooted in [[blues]], rock, and [[jazz]]. He was influenced by [[Johnny Winter]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://bluezzmen.wordpress.com/2018/12/14/stevie-ray-vaughan-on-johnny-winter/|title=Stevie Ray Vaughan On Johnny Winter|website=Bluessmen.wordpress.com|date=December 14, 2018|access-date=October 25, 2022}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://americansongwriter.com/johnny-winter/|title=Remembering Blues Legend Johnny Winter|first=Grant|last=Britt|date=July 18, 2014|website=American Songwriter|access-date=October 25, 2022}}</ref> [[Jimi Hendrix]], [[Albert King]], [[Lonnie Mack]], [[B.B. King]], [[Freddie King]], [[Albert Collins]], [[Johnny "Guitar" Watson]], [[Buddy Guy]], [[Howlin' Wolf]], [[Otis Rush]], [[Guitar Slim]], [[Chuck Berry]], and [[Muddy Waters]]. According to nightclub owner [[Clifford Antone]], who opened Antone's in 1975, Vaughan jammed with Albert King at Antone's in July 1977 and it almost "scared him to death", saying "it was the best [I] ever saw Albert or the best I ever saw Stevie".{{sfn|Hopkins|2010|p=106}} While Albert King had a substantial influence on Vaughan, Jimi Hendrix was Vaughan's greatest inspiration. Vaughan declared: "I love Hendrix for so many reasons. He was so much more than just a blues guitarist—he played damn well any kind of guitar he wanted. In fact I'm not sure if he even played the guitar—he played music."{{sfn|Joseph|1983}} He was also influenced by such jazz guitarists as [[Django Reinhardt]], [[Wes Montgomery]], [[Kenny Burrell]], and [[George Benson]].{{sfn|Hopkins|2011|p=155}}

In 1987, Vaughan listed Lonnie Mack first among the guitarists he had listened to, both as a youngster and as an adult.<ref>{{cite AV media|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcrkPrxj698 |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/GcrkPrxj698| archive-date=December 11, 2021 |url-status=live|title=Stevie Ray Vaughan – Interview with Musique Plus Outakes, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, July 22, 1987|date=March 29, 2012|via=YouTube}}{{cbignore}}</ref> Vaughan observed that Mack was "ahead of his time"{{sfn|Joseph|1983}} and said, "I got a lot of my fast stuff from Lonnie".{{sfn|Menn|1992|p=278}} On another occasion, Vaughan said that he had learned [[tremolo picking]] and vibrato from Mack and that Mack had taught him to "play guitar from the heart."{{sfn|''Request''|1989}} Mack recalled his first meeting with Vaughan in 1978:

{{blockquote|We was in Texas looking for pickers, and we went out to see the Thunderbirds. Jimmie was saying, 'Man, you gotta hear my little brother. He plays all your [songs].' He was playing a little place called the Rome Inn, and we went over there and checked him out. As it would be, when I walked in the door, he was playing 'Wham!' And I said, 'Dadgum.' He was playing it right. I'd been playing it wrong for a long time and needed to go back and listen to my original record. That was in '78, I believe.{{sfn|Hopkins|2011|p=128}}}}

Vaughan's relationship with another Texas blues legend, [[Johnny Winter]], was a little more complex. Although they met several times, and often played sessions with the same musicians or even performed the same material, as in the case of "Boot Hill," Vaughan always refrained from acknowledging Winter in any form. In his biography, ''Raisin' Cain'', Winter says that he was unnerved after reading Vaughan stating in an interview that he never met or knew Johnny Winter. "We even played together over at Tommy Shannon's house one time." Vaughan settled the issue in 1988 on the occasion of a blues festival in Europe where both he and Winter were on the bill, explaining that he has been misquoted and that "Every musician in Texas knows Johnny and has learned something from him".{{sfn|Sullivan|2010|p=74}} Asked to compare their playing styles in an interview in 2010, Winter admitted that "mine's a little bit rawer, I think."{{sfn|Kopp|2010}}