Stevie Ray Vaughan - Fiery Blues and Fateful Choices
DISGRACELAND
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4.6 • 13.4K Ratings
🗓️ 12 May 2026
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
By the time he was 27 years old, Stevie Ray Vaughan was the hottest guitar player in Texas. But outside of the Lone Star State, he was practically unknown, with no real audience and no record deal. But all that would change when Stevie Ray Vaughan reached a crossroads and was presented with a fateful choice: be a star in someone else’s universe, or become a guitar god on his own.
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| 1:03.3 | Disgraceland is a production about a giant, a guitar god, who I think was actually better than God. |
| 1:06.2 | Not the real god, the other one. You'll hear what I mean in a minute. |
| 1:14.5 | And this is a story about cocaine and booze and blues, and of course, it's about a fiery crash. |
| 1:22.6 | Because this is a story about Stevie Rayvon, one of the absolute greatest to ever do it. |
| 1:26.2 | A man who, of course, made great music. |
| 1:29.5 | Unlike that music I played for you at the top of the show, |
| 1:39.2 | that wasn't great music. That was a preset loop from my Melotron called Liquid Yale MK1. I played you that loop because I can't afford the rights to Let's Dance by David Bowie. |
| 1:50.6 | And why would I play you that specific slice of serious moonlight cheese could I afford it? |
| 1:56.7 | Because that was the number one song in America on May 21, 1983. |
| 2:01.5 | A number one song that would force Stevie Ray Vaughan to make a choice. |
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