![]() 12 on the New York Times bestseller list. “Somebody asked me, ‘If you could go back and have one conversation with Stevie Ray Vaughan right now, what would you ask him?'” Paul tells Billboard, days after Texas Flood hit No. ![]() Shannon lost a friend, the world lost perhaps its greatest living guitarist and there was something more - Vaughan, at 35, had been sober for four years after nearly killing himself with alcohol and cocaine, and was an inspiration to other recovering addicts. 27, 1990, when Stevie Ray Vaughan‘s helicopter crashed into a mountain near East Troy, Wisconsin, killing the Texas guitar hero and four others, the hole he left was immeasurable: “I was so numbed out from emotion that there are a lot of blank spaces in my memory,” Tommy Shannon, bassist in Vaughan’s band Double Trouble, tells Alan Paul and Andy Aledort in their new book, Texas Flood: The Inside Story of Stevie Ray Vaughan. ![]()
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