Stevie Ray Vaughan: Caught in the Crossfire

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Summary: Awesome Book!
Review: I saw Stevie Ray Vaughan in concert when I was 13 and did not fully realize his genius and/or his talent. I read this book and learned where he got it from and his never-dying passion and spirit for his craft. I remember reading another review that stated the book was complete bull, but I do not think so. Stevie Ray Vaughan played the blues, and he lived the blues. Plain and simple. He has achieved status as one of the Gods of blues guitar and has majorly influenced the playing styles of such people/groups as Indigenous, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Jonny Lang and many others. For those who consider themselves fans of Stevie Ray Vaughan, if you want to know his life story, this book is it.

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Summary: Entertaining and readable!
Review: If you are reading this review you need to read the book! The authors do an excellent job of conveying the Texas Blues scene as well as the details of SRV's life. A little patience may be needed during the first couple chapters but then the book picks up momentum and keeps it right to the end.

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Summary: If it's official and it's SRV, it's "Caught In The Crossfire
Review: Outside of the first page where the author(s) got a little carried away in the magic of how Stevie was carried away when he first picked up his brother's guitar, by the time you are 50 pages in, you are hooked and cannot put this one down. As a musician, you become inter-twined in imagining yourself in Stevie's situation and remembering what you were doing when these things were happening to him. As a fan, this biography puts all your memories into the context of all the parts of this man you knew, then fills in the blanks of what you didn't know about Stevie Ray Vaughan. A must read for fans, and an absolute for those who are still wondering what the "buzz" is all about of this man from Oak Cliff, Texas. Stevie Ray Vaughan, Caught In The Crossfire explains "it" all and will leave you desiring to make a pilgrimage to Austin to see where most of "it" all happened

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Summary: Where the music came from.
Review: SRV will always be my first blues hero. I had listened but never felt the music until "Texas Flood". Patoski & Crawford reveal where the music came from. SRV 's life is mapped out with clarity and passion. From his struggles to keep up with brother Jimmy , eventually finding his own style and overwhelming sucess, to the price he paid and the peace he found in a second chance. If you are a Stevie Ray Vaughan fan this book will give you an inside look at the man and where the music came from

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Summary: Where the music came from.
Review: SRV will always be my first blues hero. I had listened but never felt the music until "Texas Flood". Patoski & Crawford reveal where the music came from. SRV 's life is mapped out with clarity and passion. From his struggles to keep up with brother Jimmy , eventually finding his own style and overwhelming sucess, to the price he paid and the peace he found in a second chance. If you are a Stevie Ray Vaughan fan this book will give you an inside look at the man and where the music came from

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Summary: Grat book about the greatest ever
Review: Stevie Ray Vaughan : Caught in the Crossfire is a great book!!

Bill Crawford is able to write about SRV in a way no others can.

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Summary: A Great Guitar Player with an Interesting Life Story
Review: The life story of Stevie Ray is one of the most interesting I have had the opportunity to read. The book starts years before his birth until after his passing, and this book really clues you in to how he became such and intense player. His story is about a man following in his brothers foot steps who decided the only direction in his life was to play guitar wheather he lived in the gutter or lived rich and famous. It opens your eyes into the musician's life styles and how they got there.
The only drawback to the book was that sometimes the authors get side tracked into too much detail (history of Dallas, Austin, his Mother and Father...), and the language is pretty rough throughout the book. The story of Stevie Ray's life is written well enough that I read the book a second time as soon as I finished. Stevie Ray Vaughn had a unique life.

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Summary: As in depth as a biography gets
Review: This biography covers every single detail of the path to Stevie's music. Even the Dallas and Austin societies at the time are completely covered, from prominent historical figures to racial and social attitudes to geographical and demographical connotations. Stevie's dealings with his parents, his brother, his friends, his surroundings, the current music scene, and the music industry are all explained to give insight into Stevie's mysterious, yet amiable character. We not only see Stevie's character, but are also introduced to Dallas and Austin, many of Stevie's friends and former bandmates, and we find love and loss in Jimmie's testimonials. Watching this guitarist grow in this book gives me a guideline on how, and how not, to run my own career, and gives me a unique advantage over other muscians who are not so closely aquainted with Stevie's life and times. I believe that I am now able to make better decisions based on Stevie's successes and failures.

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Summary: The best book on Stevie Ray Vaughan available right now
Review: This biography on Stevie Ray Vaughan is the best I have seen so far. To me, it is the defining biography until Dan Forte comes out with the "official" bio. It shows that while many view Stevie as a god, and thought that he was this mystical figure, it shows that he was just an average joe, who happened to have extraordinary abilities. The most interesting part of the book to me is when the fan presents him with a rubbing of Hendrix's gravestone, and he tells the fan to get rid of it, saying that it is too creepy. This book also shows how Stevie became who he was, and how the insecurities that he had enabled him to become the great guitar player that he was. I've reread this book 6 times since I owned it. It's like my favorite movie: I just keep going back to it again and again. Rave On Stevie Ray, may you rest in peace, and may you play a hell of a jam with Hendrix and Albert King in that Great Gig In The Sky.

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Summary: The best book on Stevie Ray Vaughan available right now
Review: This biography on Stevie Ray Vaughan is the best I have seen so far. To me, it is the defining biography until Dan Forte comes out with the "official" bio. It shows that while many view Stevie as a god, and thought that he was this mystical figure, it shows that he was just an average joe, who happened to have extraordinary abilities. The most interesting part of the book to me is when the fan presents him with a rubbing of Hendrix's gravestone, and he tells the fan to get rid of it, saying that it is too creepy. This book also shows how Stevie became who he was, and how the insecurities that he had enabled him to become the great guitar player that he was. I've reread this book 6 times since I owned it. It's like my favorite movie: I just keep going back to it again and again. Rave On Stevie Ray, may you rest in peace, and may you play a hell of a jam with Hendrix and Albert King in that Great Gig In The Sky.