Stevie Ray Vaughan - Remembering the Man & Music

02 Oct

Stevie Ray Vaughan - Remembering the Man & Music

Posted by: Susie // Category: Pencil Sketches, Stevie Ray Vaughan

Remembering the man and the music - October 3rd would have been Stevie Ray Vaughan’s 54th Birthday. I was not one of the lucky one’s to have known Stevie nor did I ever see him play live. My husband had and said as soon as he hit his first note - the crowd was silenced.

In the past year, I have been lucky enough to have become friends with someone that grew up with Stevie and he has shared with me his feelings and thoughts.

I did this pencil sketch for Cutter - this sketch is no longer in existence. In place of it, lie’s a scar on Cutter’s hand and a story he was terrified to share with me, it took him a week to finally call me and explain what had happened.

Why things happen is anyone’s guess - why this sketch did not get to hang on Cutter’s wall is still a mystery to me, but within that mystery a friendship was born.

The loss of Stevie in the music industry was huge, but from the stories that Cutter has shared with me, it doesn’t come close to those that knew him personally.

I can not explain the connection I feel to Stevie through his music, or the passion that drives the drawings of Stevie - I sit with empty paper and his music resonates throughout my soul and when I look down, he has come to life on paper before me.

My heart warms because I feel I have come yet another step closer to knowing the man that Stevie truly was inside. His kindness & compassion for others can be seen within his eyes and within his hands, watching his hands wrap around the neck of his guitars as he played with power & dedication because he wanted to share his talent and share his love of music.

He gave to us that did not know him, a gift through song, he will continue to inspire me as time moves along. I send a silent thought up to the heavens, for him to hear how even after all these years, he has continued to bring people together.