Remembering Stevie Ray Vaughan: October 3, 1954 – August 27, 1990

It must have been the school holidays – because I wasn’t at school, I was just sifting about. And I heard the news on the radio: there had been a helicopter crash. Eric Clapton and Buddy Guy and Robert Cray and Jimmie Vaughan were not dead.

Stevie Ray Vaughan was dead.

I spent the rest of that day moping about – listening to the two Stevie Ray Vaughan alb…