Stevie Ray Vaughan wasn’t much older than the South Park gang when he first appeared on stage with his older brother Jimmie at the Cockrell Hill Jubilee. The 1965 celebration took place at the Hill Theater in Cockrell Hill, a small community surrounded ...
A mural series at a new park in Cockrell Hill — the site of the Vaughan brother's first performance — honors Jimmie and Stevie Ray.Stevie Ray Vaughan wasn’t much older than the South Park gang when he first appeared on stage with his older brother Jimmie at the Cockrell Hill Jubilee. The 1965 celebration took place at the Hill Theater in Cockrell Hill, a small community surrounded by Oak Cliff and just down the road from the house where the Vaughan brothers lived.
Several photographs capture the Vaughan brothers’ formative years in the new mural at Stevie Ray Vaughan Park in Cockrell Hill. The city built an event center where the Hill Theater once stood and erected a masonry wall where the mural by Dallas muralist Steve Hunter now appears. “In the words of Lou Ann Barton, ‘They came from nowhere and went everywhere,’” Warnock said in the opening to the documentary.planted the seed for Stevie Ray Vaughan Park in Cockrell Hill. City administrator Bret Haney had just returned from a council meeting in 2014 when he saw Warnock’s documentary on PBS and learned about the Vaughan brothers’ connection to Cockrell Hill.
“When I play, I play sort of like talking, you know, syllables, you say a sentence here, a sentence there and then, I have to stop and think for something else to keep my conversation going,” King said. “But his didn’t seem to be that at all. It was fluent. [Stevie Ray] flowed when he played. He could get something going and it was like a song and it would just go on and on. Ideas continuously flowed, I don’t have that. There is not a lot of people that I hear that have that but Stevie had it.
The stars aligning for Cockrell Hill continued a few years later when Warnock began working on the Vaughan brothers’ documentary. He emptied his 401-K retirement to fund it and still had to accept financial help from friends, whom he listed as executive producers, to make it a reality. Then Warnock spent a few more years trying to get the music rights for the nearly two dozen songs that appear on film. He said it wasn’t cheap or easy, especially since some of the copyrights were held by more than one entity.
Carrera began discussing the inspiration behind the mural and the old photographs of the Vaughan brothers that Dallas muralist Steve Hunter had captured perfectly in his art.
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