EW's GRADE
B+

Details Writers: Bill Crawford, Joe Nick Patoski; Genres: Biography, Music

Stevie Ray Vaughan: Caught in the Crossfire Joe Nick Patoski and Bill Crawford (Little, Brown, $11.95, 1993) What mattered most to blues guitarist Vaughan, as this biography makes clear, was the music-a horrid cliche that, in his world, was all too true. The guitar framed his life: It gave him identity, brought him into a world of reckless abandon, and ultimately helped save him. B+

Originally posted Jul 08, 1994 Published in issue #230 Jul 08, 1994 Order article reprints
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