Cockrell Hill Preparing to Open Stevie Ray Vaughan Park

Stevie Ray Vaughan is being remembered with a new park set to open in Cockrell Hill.

is just one square mile. Legendary blues guitarist, the late Stevie Ray Vaughan, put it on the map.

"Stevie wrote 'first band performance' on the back of the photo," Cockrell Hill Mayor Luis Carrera said looking at photos in a book."It's a biography of Stevie Ray Vaughan." Vaughan's first stage performance was at the Hill Theater in Cockrell Hill."It's right here at the corner," Carrera said."Basically where I'm sitting.""This property was special," Carrera said."Nowhere else in Texas, anywhere else, can anyone claim that Stevie Ray Vaughan, the famous Stevie Ray Vaughan, played here."

His first gig was when he was 12 years old with his brother, Jimmie. The photo of the occasion is part of a mural timeline highlighting moments and places in Vaughan's life.said as he painted."This is a work in progress."

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