Repackaging Stevie Ray Vaughan
Ted Drozdowski, Boston Phoenix, 19 April 1999
YEAH, HE NEVER played alternative rock, and to him hip-hop was something the Easter bunny did. He also wore his influences like a neon suit. But Stevie Ray Vaughan was one of the greatest American performers of the '80s.
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