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Mon Aug 27, 2018, 12:01 PM Aug 2018

RIP Stevie Ray Vaughan 10-3-1954/8-27-1990 🎸 [View all]

Stevie Ray Vaughan’s August 27, 1990 death is an event that calls to mind that war of feelings in the face of such a tremendous and sudden loss. Just 35 years old, Stevie overcame poverty to beating a near fatal addiction to drugs and alcohol, riding into the most stable and successful part of his life on the wings of a glowing career. And suddenly, just like that, he was gone.

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Like so many .... Ohiogal Aug 2018 #1
If the house is a rockin' Thunderbeast Aug 2018 #2
I had tickets to the alpine valley show but a house emergency kept me beachbum bob Aug 2018 #3
See My Note Below, Bob ProfessorGAC Aug 2018 #7
I remember the day it happened... ADX Aug 2018 #4
Plane crashes have taken so many of the best. Crutchez_CuiBono Aug 2018 #5
We Were At That Concert ProfessorGAC Aug 2018 #6
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