A Tribute to Stevie Ray Vaughan (1996)

August. 07,1996

| Music

One by One, the musicians climb on stage and take their places: B.B. king, Eric Clapton, Buddy guy, Robert Cray, Bonnie Raitt, Jimmie Vaughan, Dr, john and Art Neville. Vaughan, standing at center stage, launches into "Six Strings Down," A moving tribute to his late brother, Stevie Ray, whose memory has drawn this group together. The guitarists fall in, each finding a corner of the song to call their own; King plays fills to Clapton's solo, Cray fires off economical, chiming counterpoint to Raitt's stinging slide, and Guy unleashes piercing single-notes bends to answer Vaughan, who's finger-picking the main theme on his battered Stratocaster. Suddenly, the song blasts into the stratosphere, a gorgeous mosaic of clarion guitar tones.

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Cast

Eric Clapton as Himself

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Buddy Guy as Himself

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Robert Cray as Himself

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Reviews

Exoticalot

1996/08/07

People are voting emotionally.

MamaGravity

1996/08/08

good back-story, and good acting

Cleveronix

1996/08/09

A different way of telling a story

Haven Kaycee

1996/08/10

It is encouraging that the film ends so strongly.Otherwise, it wouldn't have been a particularly memorable film