“Thirty years later, people are still inspired by him to change their lives.” 'Texas Flood' biographer AlPaul discusses StevieRayVaughan’s legacy spanning rock & sobriety
bestseller list. "I said, 'I don't think I would ask him anything musical -- I would tell him that, 30 years later, people are still inspired by him to change their lives.'"writers, pulled together the oral history from more than 100 interviews, including Aledort's conversations with Vaughan throughout the '80s, as well as interviews with Vaughan's older brother,
I completely stumbled into a job as a busboy at Rick's in my first two weeks at school. I decided very consciously not to work at the, at first. I'd been really involved in journalism in high school and my idea was try some other stuff and make sure I really wanted to do it. I didn't expect I'd spend a ton of time working at a bar. It really upset my parents.
While writing the book, someone along the way, who was married to a family member, a toddler when Stevie Ray died, responded with great enthusiasm: "Well, I like his music, but I'm a recovering alcoholic and I'm in AA and Stevie is an icon of recovery and the program and we talk about him a lot and we listen to some recordings of his talks." That was really powerful.
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