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.
