Texas Flood: The Inside Story of Stevie Ray Vaughan

Alan Paul · Andy Aledort

Aug 2019 · Sold by St. Martin's Press

About this ebook

An instant New York Times bestseller!

The definitive biography of guitar legend Stevie Ray Vaughan, with an epilogue by Jimmie Vaughan, and foreword and afterword by Double Trouble’s Chris Layton and Tommy Shannon.

Just a few years after he almost died from a severe addiction to cocaine and alcohol, a clean and sober Stevie Ray Vaughan was riding high. His last album was his most critically lauded and commercially successful. He had fulfilled a lifelong dream by collaborating with his first and greatest musical hero, his brother Jimmie. His tumultuous marriage was over and he was in a new and healthy romantic relationship. Vaughan seemed poised for a new, limitless chapter of his life and career.

Instead, it all came to a shocking and sudden end on August 27, 1990, when he was killed in a helicopter crash following a dynamic performance with Eric Clapton. Just 35 years old, he left behind a powerful musical legacy and an endless stream of What Ifs. In the ensuing 29 years, Vaughan’s legend and acclaim have only grown and he is now an undisputed international musical icon. Despite the cinematic scope of Vaughan’s life and death, there has never been a truly proper accounting of his story. Until now.

Texas Flood provides the unadulterated truth about Stevie Ray Vaughan from those who knew him best: his brother Jimmie, his Double Trouble bandmates Tommy Shannon, Chris Layton and Reese Wynans, and many other close friends, family members, girlfriends, fellow musicians, managers and crew members.

Ratings and reviews

I read Texas Flood when it first came out - really enjoyed reading about my favorite PICKER ,THE BEST OF THE BEST . Got my devices on charge now. 1st up- VOO DOO CHILE . The 2 guys who wrote this book, man yall are right on time. Excellent . BRAD

I received a free electronic copy of this excellent biography from Netgalley, Alan Paul and Andy Aledort, and St. Martin's Press. Thank you all for sharing your hard work with me. August 27, 1990, was a sad day for the world of the blues and rock, and for Texans in particular. Stevie Ray Vaughan was ours, homegrown, and is still mourned today in the Hill Country and beyond. It was doubly heartfelt because in the early '80s we almost lost him to drugs and alcohol, but Stevie pulled himself out of that pit with heart and pure guts and was still the shy, sweet guy we knew before. His music grew to fill a whole genre of his own before his untimely death and is still popular with people of all ages, all genres. Alan Paul, with help from Andy Aledort, members of Double Trouble and Jimmy Vaughan and his band The Fabulous Thunderbirds brings us a well researched, broad overview of the life and times of Stevie Ray. This book is essential reading for those who grew up in the Country/Rock and Blues/Rock growth in the 1970s and 1980s, and those younger listeners who have 'found' those Blues titans of that time - most lost much too soon, one way or another. All will be missed. SRV is still mourned.

saw SRV in concert in 1983 then 1984 in a bar in Montreal . I had to go outside and catch my breath . I saw many concert but SRV is top . It was surreal to see him beat his Fender guitar ; he made one with it . He is and always will be my guitar hero !

About the author

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 and Texas Flood: the Inside Story of Stevie Ray Vaughan. The latter has been optioned and is being developed for both documentary and feature films. 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 also founded Friends of the Brothers, the premier celebration of the music of the Allman Brothers Band, featuring members of the Dickey Betts, Jaimoe and Gregg Allman bands. 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.

ANDY ALEDORT has been an essential contributor to the international music scene for 35 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 12 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.