Stevie ray vaughan biography dan forte author
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Caught in the Crossfire
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The best book on Stevie Ray Vaughan available right now
July 9, 2004 Reviewer: “rooster1956” from Harrison, Arkansas
This biography on Stevie Ray Vaughan is the best I have seen so far. To me, it is the defining biography until Dan Forte comes out with the “official” bio. It shows that while many view Stevie as a god, and thought that he was this mystical figure, it shows that he was just an average joe, who happened to have extraordinary abilities. The most interesting part of the book to me is when the fan presents him with a rubbing of Hendrix’s gravestone, and he tells the fan to get rid of it, saying that it is too creepy. This book also shows how Stevie became who he was, and how the insecurities that he had enabled him to become the great guitar player that he was. I’ve reread this book 6 times since I owned it. It’s like my favorite movie: I just keep going back to it again and again. Rave On Stevie Ray, may you rest in peace, and may you play a hell of a jam with Hendrix and Albert King in that Great Gig In The Sky.
Crawford/Patoski Stevie Ray Vaughan Biography Papers
Southwestern Writers Collection – Texas State University-San Marcos
ALBERT B. ALK
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Story of Blues Legend in Works
AN entertainment writer shares the late Stevie Ray Vaughan's love of the blues - music that is their tie that still binds.
Having fostered a friendship with the Texas blues guitar wizard after first interviewing him in 1986, blues writer and singer Keri Leigh decided she had heard the great American music story from Vaughan and had to do more with it.
Vaughan, the man with the trademark black hat and fingers that ran down the neck of his guitar like raindrops on a lightning rod, was backstage at the Civic Center Music Hall.
It was May 2, 1990, and Leigh, who has written a book on Mississippi Delta blues music, managed to get backstage to talk to her friend and idol. Leigh talked about that meeting while stopping here for a show with her own band recently.
IN 1990, she planned on having her picture taken with Vaughan backstage, but the camera remained in her hand while they got carried away with conversation and she forgot to ask someone to take the picture.
She never got another chance.
Leigh knew Vaughan was born in the Dallas suburb of Oak Cliff and rose to stardom as a guitarist. Some say the ghost of Jimi Hendrix lived in him.
In her own band, Keri Leigh and the Blue Devils, the Oklahoma City native tosses her hair wildly and sometime