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Stevie Ray Vaughan and the Important Things in Life
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Stevie Ray Vaughan and the Important Things in Life

By Timothy Sandefur

Nov 07, 2019
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Eric Clapton once said that Stevie Ray Vaughan played guitar as though “it all just came straight from him, seemingly without any effort.”1 And it did sometimes seem as if performing came as naturally to him as breathing. During a televised concert in 1989, for example, Vaughan broke a string in the midst of a solo—but continued playing for a full half m…

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