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Denny Freeman, who helped give rise to Austin’s blues scene in the 1970s playing with Stevie Ray Vaughan and later became the touring guitarist in Bob Dylan’s band, died Sunday after being diagnosed with abdominal cancer last month. He was 76. Born Aug. 7, 1944, in Orlando, Fla., Freeman grew up in Dallas, playing in a high school band called the Corals before moving to Austin in 1970. Freeman and Vaughan soon were playing together with singer Paul Ray and others in a group called the Cobras at venues including the One Knite and Soap Creek Saloon. They were part of a wave of musicians who...

Austin 360 Guitarist Denny Freeman, an anchor of Austin's blues music community for five decades, has died after a recent cancer diagnosis, several of his close friends confirmed via social media (including songwriter Bill Carter). He was 76. We'll have more about Freeman's life on Monday. In the meantime, here's an American-Statesman feature from 2012. By Brad Buchholz Guitarist Denny Freeman has a new album out — “Diggin’ on Dylan” — an album of instrumental music inspired, in part, by his experience of playing in Bob Dylan’s band between 2005 and 2009. And he’s happy to tell ...