Texas native Stevie Ray Vaughan is fondly remembered as one of the greatest guitarists of all time and is revered as a groundbreaking figure in the blues revival of the 1980s.
After years of success, a fatal helicopter crash in 1990 cut Vaughan’s life short when he was only 35 years old.
Now, just shy of 30 years after his death, a new biography about Vaughan is coming out called Texas Flood: The Inside Story of Stevie Ray Vaughan, named after his debut album.
The authors of the book, Alan Paul and Andy Aledort, are musicians themselves and compiled a number of interviews with Vaughan and the major players in his life.
In the audio above, Paul and Aledort talk with Houston Matters producer Joshua Zinn about how Vaughan became such an institution and about some of the surprising things they discovered in writing the book.