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Now available in paperback, here is the bestselling biography of America's last guitar legend, Texas firebrand Stevie Ray Vaughan. Hailed the greatest guitarist since Hendrix, Vaughan emerged from the hotbed of Texas blues to develop a blistering, unforgettable style all his own. "A rich, complete, and loving portrait."--Detroit Free Press.

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Little, Brown and Company; Reprint edition (June 5, 1994)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 336 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0316160695
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0316160698
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 11.2 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 0.88 x 8.25 inches
Reviewer: Gary Covington
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: A Very Comprehensive Book About the Life & Times of One of the Greatest Guitar Players Ever - The Late/Great Stevie Ray Vaughan!
Review: This book covers Stevie Ray from childhood, all the way up through his death in 1990, and even after his death, up through about 1992. Stevie Ray was killed in a helecopter crash. Stevie Ray was born & raised in Dallas, Texas. He first started playing his older brother's guitar at their home. His older brother is Jimmy Vaughan, founding member of the "Fabulus Thunderbirds" band. Stevie grew up in the same neighborhood with another Texas Guitar Great, Doyle Bramhall (who is the father of current Texas Guitar Great Doyle Bramhall II). Also Stevie had some interaction with Texas Guitar Great Charlie Sexton,who was younger than Steive. Doyle II & Charlie along with Double Trouble currently have a band called "ArcAngels". They have a great new concert dvd and live cds of this concert available from their website, and they are highly SRV influenced.This book covers the Texas Music scene, and especially the Austin, Texas Music scene also, because this environment influenced Stevie's life. It covers that Willie Nelson was instrumental in getting the Austin, Texas Music scene going, back in the early 1970's. It covers some other Texas musicians that somehow had interacted with Stevie, such as ZZ Top, Johnny Winter, Doug Sham, & especially Albert Collins, and others. It covers a little of the "Cosmic American Music" explosion of Gram Parsons, even though he was not a native Texan.On page 163 it covers the "Southern Rock Music Scene", including the Allman Brothers Band, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Wet Willie, and others.This book covers how Stevie Ray gained fame by playing in huge, Texas Honky Tonks, how he met Chris Layton & Tommy Shannon (Double Trouble) and the formation of their band. During this time they started working on their first album "Texas Flood". They were interrupted, by getting an opportunity to play in the Montreaux Jazz Festival in Switerland. So they went & performed. This was during 1982, and they were booed off the stage. However, David Bowie was in the audience & he was very impressed with Stevie's guitar playing, and invited him & Double Trouble over for a talk. The result, Stevie Ray played the lead guitar on David Bowie's famous studio album of 1982/83, "Let's Dance". So, when you listen to the music on that album to songs like "Let's Dance" & "Little China Girl", the fantastic guitar playing you are hearing is that of Stevie Ray's. Bowie wanted Stevie to go on a World Tour with Bowie, but after agonizing over it, Stevie declined the offer to tour with Bowie. He instead wanted to finish his 1st ablum "Texas Flood", with Double Trouble, and they did in 1983. It won a Grammy for best Blues Album or something like that.Stevie Ray & Double Trouble returned to the Montreaux Jazz Festival again, during 1985, and this time they received standing ovations, plus there were people in the audience waving Rebel flags, this was sometime around the performance of "Look at Little Sister". Anyway, there is a DVD of both Montreaux performances, in one package, available from Amazon. I have one, and it is fantastic, especially the 1985 performance, because it includes Reese Wymans on keyboards, and Texan, Johnny Copeland on electric guitar for a couple of songs. This book mentions that Stevie had Texas black bluesman Johnny Copeland to join him on stage for a few songs in the 1985 concert. The crowd loved them, this time around. They actually did 2 encores!!!Stevie Ray won 2 awards at the 5th annual W.C.Handy National Blues Awards Convention in Memphis. Stevie was named "Entertainer of the Year & Blues Instrumentalist of the Year." It was the 1st time in the history of the event that a white person had won either category. (P.180). Stevie Ray was heavily influenced by black bluesmen, especially Albert Collins & Jimi Hendrix.This book covers Stevie's drug & alcohol addiction & how he totally recovered from it.It covers the addition of Reese Wymans to Double Trouble. Stevie spotted him playing keyboards in a Texas Honky Tonk.Anyway, this book covers Stevie's marriage & divorce to Lenny, and his new girlfriend who he was living with, when he was killed. Her name was Janna Lapidua, and she was from New Zealand. It covers Stevie's & Double Trouble's career up through Stevie's death in a helecopter crash, 20 years ago, in 1990.This book covers Stevie's funeral, and it is very touching, you had all these great blues musicians there, paying respect & tribute to Stevie.Then the book covers the next few years after Stevie's death, up until about 1992.It has a discogrophy from "Texas Flood" in 1983, & releases on up through about 1992. This book has an index, making it easy to locate specific things in the book.This book has been praised by "Entertainment Weekly" and The "Austin Chronicle".The book was published/copyrighted in 1993, the author is Joe Nick Patoski, who at the time was a senior editor at "Texas Monthly", & columist for the "Austin American-Statesman". He also had contributed articles to "Rolling Stone" and other music magazines.This is a great book about a great man, and I highly recommend it. Thanks!!!

Reviewer: Avid Reader
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Pedal to the Metal
Review: Very detailed. The author conducted what must have been hundreds of interviews with friends, acquaintances and family. He consulted as many newspaper and magazine articles and no doubt walked the streets of Austin and Oak Cliff. The result is a detailed description of his subject and the environment. Yet it's not a forest for the trees situation. The details do not drown out the overall story. Sometimes excessive details can make a book boring or hard to follow. Not in this case.The author begins the story with the Vaughan's migration to Texas from Kentucky. He also describes the evolution of Dallas as a music town starting as early as Blind Lemon Jefferson. Stevie's years as a school boy in Dallas, his years playing small clubs in Austin, and his nonpublic life are described in as much detail perhaps more indepthly than his life as a famous blues superstar.SRV lived his entire life the same way he played guitar: pedal to the metal. Drugs, girls, partying, jamming were all done fast and hard until he passed out from exhaustion. After 18 hours or more of sleep, it would start all over again.After decades of life pedal to the metal it is amazing that he survivied. But he didn't just survive. He cleaned himself up and became a better person. It seems like he was a nice person. He spent a lot of effort helping other musicians especially underappreciated blues musicians. He insisted that his Double Trouble bandmates received the same salary as he even though clearly SRV was the only reason people came to see Double Trouble.The book also explores the mystery of the 1982 Montreaux Jazz Festival performance where the band was booed. Besides a couple of freaked out hippies dancing in front, the rest of the crowd (probably arthouse goons) sat and watched the performance in contempt and booed enthusiastically in between songs. The book offers an explanation, but perhaps in some minds the crowd's behavior at that event will remain an enigma.Summary: good book, well written. If you like SRV, then you won't regret having gotten this book.

Reviewer: D. Elmore
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: After All These Years
Review: What an excellent book. I didn't know Stevie Ray Vaughan until 2 weeks ago. I had heard his name in passing, but I guess my head was somewhere else. I was born in the early 50s, a curious kid, who ran to the beat of my own drum, just like him. Our family situatons were almost copy cat. Except I didn't play an instrument. Teased, bullied, and all of it we shared in common. I didn't need a guitar to go off into that "zone". My vice was humming.This is a sad, sad account of the life of one of the most sensitive, generous, caring, dedicated human beings I have ever read. I am so shook up to my core that I am brought to tears when I think about him. In discovering his music these last 10 or so days, though i don't play it loud, says volumes. I hear every note, feel every emotion and it helps me to understand him and myself even better.I remember the 60s-70s living in Southern California during the hippie years from the standpoint that I didn't want to get involved. I watched it unfold. while hiding in the shadows. I kept up with it to the best of my abilities, but I feared the drug scene. I feared losing control.This author brought back so many memories for me, it was unbelievable. He made it like I was amongst all the conversations, musicians, bands, concerts and towns, Stevie was involved in. He even made me feel like a relative of Stevie Ray Vaughan. Long may Stevie's life be made available!

Reviewer: Mark Davies
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Very pleased with the fast delivery of the item. Excellent Book. Many Thanks.

Reviewer: antonellovanni
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Very well written and detailed!

Reviewer: Monk69
Rating: 3.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: letters too smal

Reviewer: FRANCISCO A HOWAT RODRIGUES
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Stevie Ray Vaughan surgiu nos 80 lançando grandes discos de Blues Rock e retomou uma nova onda do Blues. Influenciou novas gerações de guitarristas como Joe Bonamassa, e tocou com Albert King, B.B. King, Clapton e Jeff beck. Ironia do destino quando parou de beber e tomar drogas pesadas sofreu um acidente de helicóptero ceifando sua vida e abortando uma carreira brilhante. O livro retrata a trajetória do músico e do homem de forma emocionante. Se você admira o músico e sua música este livro é fundamental. Uma pena que nenhuma editora nacional tenha se interessado em lançar em português esta obra. Fica aí a dica.

Reviewer: Regine Malüg
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: super