Stevie Ray Vaughan - Laurel Land Memorial Park - Dallas, TX
N 32° 40.417 W 096° 48.771
14S E 705084 N 3617218
Guitar legend Stevie Ray Vaughan is buried with his parents in the Vaughan Estate section of Laurel Land Memorial Park, 6000 S R.L. Thornton Fwy, Dallas, TX.
Waymark Code: WMWGZK
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 09/04/2017
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Stevie Ray Vaughan was elected to the Blues Hall of Fame in 2000, and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2015. He picked up a guitar while an adolescent, in awe of his brother Jimmy's playing, and by the time he was a teenager, he was playing clubs in Dallas's Deep Ellum before moving to Austin. He honed his skills while a member of the Nightcrawlers, Triple Threat (which evolved into Double Trouble), and Paul Ray and the Cobras, and by 1980, he was well-known in Texas. Attracting the attention of the likes of Mick Jagger and David Bowie -- Vaughan played on Bowie's "Let's Dance" -- Double Trouble played the Montreux Jazz Festival, where they came to the attention of Jackson Browne. Browne invited the band to his studio, where they worked on tracks that would become part of their debut, "Texas Flood."
Vaughan's career took off after that, and the band recorded a total of six albums, with a few live efforts, some released after Vaughan's death. He battled alcohol and drug abuse in the mid-1980s before conquering it and returning to his former glory. Unfortunately, he and several members of Eric Clapton's team were killed, along with the pilot, in a helicopter accident on August 27, 1990 as they traveled from East Troy, WI to Chicago, IL.
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This is a very large cemetery, and the best way to find the grave site is to put the pertinent coordinates into your GPS and let that be your guide. Otherwise, the old fashioned way is to take E Laureland Rd east from I-35E, and take the cemetery entrance (going south, to your right) that is right across from S Marsalis Ave. You'll go past the first road to your right -- note that Officer J.D. Tippit, Lee Harvey Oswald's other murder victim on November 22, 1963, is buried nearby -- and then, at the next road, go left (east). A short drive will take you right to the Vaughan Estate section. Stevie Ray's headstone is quite simple for such a well-known musician. It is bronze, with a starburst in relief, accompanied by:
Stephen
Ray
Vaughan
October 3
1954
August 27
1990
Thank you
for all the love
you passed our way
Waymark Type: Blues Legend Gravesite
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