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{"id":1703,"date":"2019-08-04T09:45:40","date_gmt":"2019-08-04T09:45:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonestar.a1professionals.net\/?p=1703"},"modified":"2019-08-05T14:45:45","modified_gmt":"2019-08-05T14:45:45","slug":"lone-star-review-texas-flood-inside-story-stevie-ray-vaughn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonestar.a1professionals.net\/?p=1703&lang=ar","title":{"rendered":"Lone Star Review: Texas Flood: The Inside Story of Stevie Ray Vaughan"},"content":{"rendered":"

A review of the first comprehensive biography of Stevie Ray Vaughan<\/p>\n

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Texas Flood<\/em><\/strong><\/a> turns the concept of biography on its ear in an innovative, accessible, and wholly captivating way. Writers Paul and Aledort sidestep the traditional narrow and predigested historical narrative in favor of a wide-angle lens that lets the reader become the historian and discover meaningful conclusions based on a veritable flood of artifacts, interviews, photos, and more.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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This technique is unsettling at first. The feel is almost skeletal, comprised of narrative snippets interspersed with interview clips. That\u2019s partly for the reader\u2019s practice, because very quickly\u2014and comfortably\u2014the skeleton becomes scaffolding laden with firsthand experiences told by Vaughan himself, his brother Jimmy, his bandmates, family, and a virtual who\u2019s-who of blues and boogie rock, including Eric Clapton, Greg Allman, Albert King, Robert Cray, Dicky Betts, Buddy Guy, Eric Johnson, Bonnie Raitt, Steve Miller, and many more. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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It’s a risky strategy from a biographer\u2019s standpoint, but the reader gets the ultimate payoff, examining the bits of firsthand memories and fragments of Vaughan\u2019s life. More traditional biography generalizes and presents a single-thread chronology polished of the jagged edges of real life. This book does the opposite: Paul and Aledort particularize and ask the reader to piece together their own tapestry with the worn, imperfect threads of experience lived on the three hundred patiently, thoroughly detailed pages. For the reader, you\u2019re there, and you make meaning of the visceral experience yourself, and thereby own the truth shared by the many voices that comprise this authentic account.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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There\u2019s a \u201cTitanic\u201d-worthy tragic undertow in that truth, because from page one we know the story does not end well. The loss is deepened as the chronology limns a humble, unassuming man from childhood simply exploring the guitar and over time and with much struggle, wringing from it a soulful, masterful intensity rarely seen or heard in a lifetime. Vaughan unfolds through the chronology, existing\u2014couch surfing, mostly broke, schlepping road miles not only for<\/em> the blues, but living the blues himself. He was what Baudelaire called the \u201csupranatural\u201d: Stevie Ray Vaughan was the music, was the blues.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Texas Flood<\/em> is a fascinating backstage pass, a front row seat at the epicenter of the Texas music that unfolded in the eighties and nineties in Austin, told in the many authentic voices that shared SRV\u2019s life. The story couldn\u2019t have come from a more elevated Greek peripeteia<\/em>: Vaughan was at last drug-free, sober, healthy, and leading his band into the best blues he\u2019d ever played, even while offering a helping hand to others who struggled with the demons he\u2019d vanquished himself.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cStevie showed all of us,\u201d says Tommy Shannon, Double Trouble bassist, \u201cwhat it was to reach down into one\u2019s heart and soul\u2014into one\u2019s life\u2014and communicate that feeling of love through the guitar on a deep, spiritual level.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Vaughan\u2019s ability to express the blues was a gift, and this book is more than a history or tribute. Read it, live it, own it: along with the music, it\u2019s the best of what we have left of Stevie Ray Vaughan.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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