1970s High School Yearbook w/ STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN ~ Double Trouble ~ Crossfire ++

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197
0's High School annual
with great photographs and text showing the students and faculty, activities and sports, candids and graphics,  pictures of school and surrounding, and local advertisement. And including future performing and recording artist and all time great Stevie Ray Vaughan, who was at the jams. Great photos and vintage design.
note: our scanner is needs repair and is showing a faint light line on the left side of pictures which do not appear in the actual yearbook.
Stevie Ray Vaughan
was an American musician, best known as the guitarist and frontman of the blues rock band Double Trouble
. Although his mainstream career only spanned seven years, he is considered to be one of the most iconic and influential musicians in the history of blues
, and one of the greatest guitarists of all time. Vaughan
dropped out of high school and moved to Austin
, where he began to gain a following after playing gigs on the local club circuit, formed the band Double Trouble in 1978 and established it as part of the Austin music scene,
which soon became one of the most popular acts in Texas. He performed at the Montreux Jazz Festival
in 1982 where David Boweie
saw him play and contacted him for a studio gig, resulting in Stevie playing his blues guitar on the album Let's Dance
(1983) before being discovered by John Hammond,
who interested major label Epic Records
in signing them to a record deal. Within months, Vaughan achieved mainstream success with Double Trouble for the critically acclaimed debut album
Texas Flood
. With a series of successful network television appearances and extensive concert tours, he became the leading figure in the blues revival of the 1980s.  H
e earned unprecedented stardom in Europe which later resulted in breakthroughs for guitar players like Robert Cray, Jeff Healey, Robben Ford, and Walter Trout, among others.
During the majority of his life, Vaughan struggled with drug and alcohol addiction, as well as with
personal and professional pressures of touring and fame. He completed rehabilitation and began touring again with Double Trouble in November 1986. His fourth and final studio album
In Step
reached number 33 in the United States in 1989; it was one of Vaughan's most criticall
successes and included number-one hit "Crossfire". He became one of the world's most highly demanded blues performers, and he headlined Madison Square Garden
in 1989 and the Beale Street Music Festival
in 1990.
On August 27, 1990, Vaughan and four others were illed in a helicopter crash in East Troy Wisconsin, after
performing with Double Trouble at
Alpine Valley Music Theatre.
Vaughan's music continued to achieve success with several posthumous releases and has sold over 15 million albums in the U.S. alone. In 2003, David Fricke of
Rolling Stone
ranked him the seventh greatest guitarist of all time. Vaughan was posthumously inducted into the
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame,
along with Double Trouble bandmates Chris Layton, Tommy Shannon, and Reese Wynans.
Very Good condition
hardback with tight binding and text and clean pages; with no must or mildew or missing pieces, with plastic book protector still attached and in good condition, with some pages with quarter inch tears on edges. Solid.
Great rarity giving a great look at the early life and times of one of the greatest rock n roll performers.
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