A Tribute to Stevie Ray Vaughan (1996)

One by One the musicians climb on stage and take their places BB 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 Claptons solo Cray fires off economical chiming counterpoint to Raitts stinging slide and Guy unleashes piercing singlenotes bends to answer Vaughan whos fingerpicking the main theme on his battered Stratocaster Suddenly the song blasts into the stratosphere a gorgeous mosaic of clarion guitar tones