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by Alan Paul


  “Texas Flood”

  Texas Playboys

  Texas Storm

  Texas Twister (Copeland)

  “The Things (That) I Used to Do”

  Thornton, Big Mama

  Thornton, Gus

  Thorogood, George

  “Thunderbird” (the Nightcaps)

  “Tick Tock”

  “Tightrope”

  “Tin Pan Alley”

  Tobolowsky, Stephen

  “Travis Walk”

  Trimmier, Jim

  Triple Threat Revue

  Trucks, Butch

  Tucker, Luther

  Tuff Enuff (The Fabulous Thunderbirds)

  Turner, Uncle John

  Tut’s

  Tyler, Steven

  U2

  Van Halen, Eddie

  Vaughan, Connie

  Vaughan, Donna

  Vaughan, Jimmie. See also The Fabulous Thunderbirds

  in Austin, Texas

  birth of

  at Carnegie Hall

  as child

  Clapton and

  on clothes

  Couldn’t Stand the Weather and

  death of Stevie Ray and

  on Double Trouble

  on duende

  early bands and music of

  Family Style and

  on Let’s Dance

  on management

  about rehab

  rivalry with

  on Stevie Ray’s greatness

  Vaughan, Jimmie “Big Jim”

  Vaughan, Martha

  Vaughan, Stevie Ray. See specific topics

  Vaughan, Tina

  Vaughan Brothers Band

  the Ventures

  Very Vaughan

  violin thing

  Vito, Rick

  “Voodoo Child (Chile)”

  Walden, Fredde “Pharaoh”

  Walker, Junior

  Walker, T-Bone

  “Wall of Denial”

  Waters, Muddy

  Wells, Junior

  Wexler, Jerry

  “Wham!”

  Whitford, Brad

  wife. See Bailey, Lenora “Lenny”

  Wiley, Ann

  Wiley, Gary

  Williams, Hank

  Wills, Bob

  Wilson, Kim

  Winter, Edgar

  Winter, Johnny

  Wonder, Stevie

  Wood, Ronnie

  Woodstock

  Wylie, Ray

  Wynans, Reese

  the Yardbirds

  “You Can Have My Husband”

  You Can’t Stop a Comet (Brandenburg)

  “You’ll Be Mine”

  Zephyr

  ZZ Top

  ABOUT THE AUTHORS

  ALAN PAUL is the author of the New York Times bestseller One Way Out: The Inside History of the Allman Brothers Band, the definitive book on the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame band. His first book, Big in China, is about his experiences raising an American family, forming a band, and becoming an unlikely rock star in Beijing. He is a regular guest on radio shows and a frequent contributor to The Wall Street Journal, Guitar World, and other publications. He lives in New Jersey.

  Visit him online at www.alanpaul.net, or sign up for email updates here.

  ANDY ALEDORT has been an essential contributor to the international music scene for thirty-five years, working as a journalist, instructor, and performer. He has conducted hundreds of interviews and lessons with the world’s greatest guitarists for Guitar World and other publications, and toured and recorded with original Jimi Hendrix bandmates Mitch Mitchell and Buddy Miles, and Stevie Ray Vaughan’s Double Trouble. He was a member of Dickey Betts and Great Southern for twelve years. He has also sold over one million instructional DVDs and teaches guitar privately and via online sites such as TrueFire. He lives on Long Island.

  Visit him online at www.andyaledort.com, or sign up for email updates here.

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  CONTENTS

  Title Page

  Copyright Notice

  Epigraphs

  Foreword by Chris Layton

  Authors’ Note

  Cast of Characters

    1.  IN THE BEGINNING

    2.  LEARNING TO FLY

    3.  AUSTIN CITY LIMITS

    4.  STEPPIN’ OUT

    5.  BLUES WITH A FEELING

    6.  CRAWLING KINGSNAKES

    7.  COME ON (PART 1)

    8.  TROUBLE IS KNOCKIN’

    9.  BLUES POWER

  10.  GET EXPERIENCED

  11.  A SWISS MISS

  12.  CALIFORNIA DREAMING

  13.  SERIOUS MOONLIGHT

  14.  TEXAS FLOOD

  15.  STORMY WEATHER

  16.   IN THE OPEN

  17.  SOUL STIRRERS

  18.  DROWNING ON DRY LAND

  19.  LIVE—AND BARELY ALIVE

  20.  WALKING THE TIGHTROPE

  21.  THE THINGS I USED TO DO

  22.  IN STEP

  23.  CHANGE IT

  24.  FAMILY STYLE

  25.  THE SKY IS CRYING

  26.  LIFE WITHOUT YOU

  Epilogue: Jimmie Vaughan Reflects on His Brother

  Afterword by Tommy Shannon

  Photos

  Acknowledgments

  Appendix: Stevie’s Gear

  Index

  About the Authors

  Copyright

  First published in the United States by St. Martin’s Press, an imprint of St. Martin’s Publishing Group

  TEXAS FLOOD. Copyright © 2019 by Alan Paul and Andy Aledort. Foreword copyright © 2019 by Chris Layton. Afterword copyright © 2019 by Tommy Shannon. All rights reserved. For information, address St. Martin’s Publishing Group, 120 Broadway, New York, NY 10271.

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  Cover design by Rob Grom

  Cover photograph by Art Meripol Photography; vector © Nimaxs / Shutterstock.com; mosaic © Aleksandrov Ilia / Shutterstock.com

  The Library of Congress has cataloged the print edition as follows:

  Names: Paul, Alan, 1966– author.|Aledort, Andy, author.

  Title: Texas flood: the inside story of Stevie Ray Vaughan / Alan Paul and Andy Aledort.

  Description: First edition.|New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2019.|Includes index.

  Identifiers: LCCN 2018055443|ISBN 9781250142832 (hardcover)|ISBN 9781250142849 (ebook)

  Subjects: LCSH: Vaughan, Stevie Ray.|Guitarists—United States—Biography.|Blues musicians—United States—Biography.

  Classification: LCC ML419.V25 P39 2019|DDC 787.87/166092 [B]—dc23

  LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018055443

  eISBN 9781250142849

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  First Edition: August 2019

 

 

 


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