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.
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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
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First Edition: August 2019
