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Double Trouble is an American blues rock band from Austin, Texas, which served as the backing band for singer-guitarist Stevie Ray Vaughan.The group was active throughout the 1980s and contributed to reviving blues music, inspiring many later blues and rock acts.
Double Trouble toured North America as an opening act for The Moody Blues in October through November 1983; for these performances, the band received $5,000 per show and a bonus for successful ticket sales. [2] Double Trouble received considerable mainstream success thereafter, performing with significantly higher production values.
Ron Gorchov (April 5, 1930 – August 18, 2020) [1] was an American artist. He was known for his colorful, abstract paintings on curved canvases. [1] [2]In the late 1960s, he began making oil-on-linen paintings on distinctive saddle-like stretchers, at once concave and convex, featuring one or two biomorphic shapes against differently colored backgrounds.
Chicago may be known for its architecture and food (it has how many Michelin-star restaurants?), but it also has a swinging art scene. (And considering that the city ranks fourth as among the most ...
The In Step Tour was a concert tour through the United States and Canada, undertaken by American blues rock band Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble from 1989 to 1990. . Launched in support of their fourth and final studio album In Step, this was the third tour to include keyboardist Reese Wynans, who joined the band
Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble (Layton to the left) in 1983. Layton's roommate, sax player Joe Sublett, recalls how Layton met Stevie Ray Vaughan: After Stevie said he needed a drummer, I had been playing a lot of Texas blues and Chicago blues records for Chris. We had figured out a way to get the headphones from the living room to the ...
Eleanor Roosevelt at the dedication of South Side Community Art Center (May 7, 1941). Efforts to open a community art center on Chicago's South Side began in 1938. Peter Pollack, a Federal Art Project official, contacted Metz Lochard, an editor at the Chicago Defender, about having the Art Project sponsor exhibitions of African American artists, who often had trouble securing space to display ...
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