As Double Trouble drummer Chris Layton told me of first experiencing Stevie Ray Vaughan’s extraordinary guitar talent from outside an Austin nightclub, I had to smile. Like Chris, I had not actually seen the young blues guitarist the first time I heard him play live , but the memory is burned into my mind. It was February 4 , 1984 as I was anchoring the live network broadcast interviews of the myriad of performers at the annual Charlie Daniels Volunteer Jam backstage at Nashville’s War Memorial Auditorium. Over ten years the Volunteer Jam had grown into an annual pilgrimage by the biggest names then in American rock music, featuring in one night the Charlie Daniels Band, the Marshall Tucker Band, Lynyrd Skynyrd, the Allman Brothers Band, Molly Hatchet , the Outlaws, plus Billy Joel, Emmylou Harris, and Ted Nugent!
Smithereens-Indigo Blues-Only a Memory-Behind the Wall of Sleep medley
Phil Collins- Easy Lover- live Birmingham UK 1994
Graham Parker- Back to School Days-Dallas 10-88
Neil Young and Crazy Horse- Inca Queen 11-86- San Francisco
Jeffrey Gaines-The Hero in Me- Dallas Oct 1992
Rossington Collins Band interviews by Redbeard May 1980 NYC
Billy Joel-“New York State of Mind”- UConn 12-76
Neil Young- After the Goldrush 10-21-86- San Francisco
Billy Joel-Get It Right the First Time-Nassau LI 12-77
Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble- Best pt 2