Ethics

Time Flies, Stevie Ray Vaughan Edition

By Ed Brayton

Our local PBS station showed an episode of Austin City Limits with Stevie Ray Vaughan this weekend and it suddenly hit me that he's been gone almost 20 years now. He died on August 27, 1990. That just blows me away. That's practically the whole of my adult life. I remember vividly the night he died.

One of my roommates woke me up very early in the morning, like 6 am, to tell that he was dead. We went out to a local blues bar that night and got quite drunk, and we were not alone. The place was packed with people mourning his death. We had all gone to see him in concert two months earlier at Pine Knob (with Joe Cocker, who put on an amazing show himself).

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on September 20, 2009 (boomark / email).