Happy Birthday, Stevie Ray

"Some of us can be examples about going ahead and growing, and some of us, unfortunately,

don't make it there and end up being examples because they had to die.

I hit rock bottom, but thank God my bottom wasn't death."

                                                                                                     - Stevie on getting sober

The incredibly gifted singer, songwriter and guitarist unfortunately would lose his life in
August 1990 when an unqualified helicopter pilot flew into dense fog and crashed into a hillside.

Such a tragic loss.  Vaughan was born on this day in 1954.

Playboy, March 1987

Here's a moving rendition of "Life Without You"
because we're all missing someone...