Creem Profiles
STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN
(Pronounced “Boy Howdy!”)
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HOME: Deep In The Heart Of Texas.
AGE: The blues are ageless, honey.
PROFESSION: Scuttle buttin’.
HOBBIES: Testifying the blues, copping Hendrix covers, creating rude moods, doing something about the weather, playing dirty pool, drinking cold shots.
LAST BOOK READ: Ozzy & The Alamo by I.P. Freely.
LAST ACCOMPLISHMENT: Playing a Detroit night club the same night Bowie was in town—and selling the damn place out!
QUOTE: “The Thin White Who?”
PROFILE: Stevie was a blues legend before anyone outside of Texas had heard him play, thanks to word-of-mouth and big brother Jimmie’s reputation with the Fab Thunderbirds. Bowie grabbed ahold of our boy to play on Let’s Dance, John Hammond signed him to CBS, he quit the Bowie tour due to financial conflicts, went on his own, and is rapidly becoming one of the ’80s genuine guitar heros.
BEER: Boy Howdy!