EPISODE · Aug 7, 2026 · 25 MIN
Episode 4 - Texas and the American Answer
from Blues Progressions · host Karl Sorochinski
The hinge of the series — the blues comes home to America, to Texas. The Lone Star blues bloodline (T-Bone Walker's "Stormy Monday," Lightnin' Hopkins, Freddie King); ZZ Top as a ferocious blues-rock power trio hiding inside MTV fame ("La Grange" off John Lee Hooker); the Austin scene at Antone's where young players learned from the masters in person. Then the centerpiece: Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble — Number One, the heavy strings, Montreux and Bowie's "Let's Dance," "Texas Flood," his Albert King and Hendrix worship, his hard-won sobriety and "In Step," and the 1990 helicopter crash. Plus the host's own life-changing SRV epiphany — the note that sent him digging backward and, in more ways than one, the reason this show exists
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The blues comes home to Texas. Episode 4 of ”The Bones of It All” — ZZ Top, Antone’s, and the man who, at the exact moment the business declared the blues dead, dragged it back into the center of American culture: Stevie Ray Vaughan. This one’s personal — it’s the player who made the host need to know where the blues came from. Where were you when you first heard SRV?
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