Stevie Ray Vaughan: 1985 Guitar World Interview

Guitar World's second interview with Stevie Ray Vaughan, from the November 1985 issue. The original story by Bruce Nixon started on page 28 and ran with the headline, "It's Star Time: Stevie's been in the spotlight so long now, he's just beginning to realize -- with the help of Clapton, Townshend and Albert King -- that everybody's eyes are on him."

Something was up. Stevie Ray Vaughan looked like the cat that swallowed the canary.

He had plenty of reason to be pleased, of course: A few weeks earlier, Vaughan and his band, Double Trouble, had received their first Grammy (in the ethnic music category, for some tunes on a Montreux Jazz Festival blues anthology), capping a year in which they'd won a number of other industry awards.

After seeing their first two albums climb into the upper reaches of the charts, they'd toured widely at home and abroad and were, at that moment, in the midst of finishing up work on their third record, Soul To Soul.

But something more than a year of new triumphs and successes was on Stevie Ray's mind, and he was being deliberately and playfully vague. Nothing arouses your curiosity faster than that. He positively seemed to glow.

Was he born again?

"Something like that." There was the faint wisp of a knowing smile le under the broad-brimmed hat. It was a white hat, too-not the black Man With No Name hat that's become a trademark of sorts.

Quit drinking and smoking?

He held up his glass. "No."

Make up with his wife and family over something?

"That's part of it." more

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  1. Nice post! You may like my portrait I did of SRV recently on the anniversary of his death for Rock Star Martyr. You can see it on my artist's blog at http://dregstudiosart.blogspot.com/2011/08/double-trouble-stevie-ray-vaughan.html

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