Twelve years ago today, Texas music legend Stevie Ray Vaughan died in a helicopter accident. I was a freshman at UT Austin at the time and didn’t really know much about SRV. I since have come to realize what a talent he was.
A quick search of Google today brought me to Pride and Joy – The Stevie Ray Vaughan Archive. The site features a great take on SRV:
It did not take long for Stevie Ray Vaughan the man to be replaced in the public eye by Stevie Ray Vaughan, the legend. Dying tragically at the age of thirty-five made him an immediate object of worship in the great rock-and-roll tradition. Dying under such tragic circumstances after overcoming his own personal battles with the demons of booze and drugs elevated him to something just short of sainthood.
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