From Nowhere: The Story of the Vaughan Brothers

"That boy came from nowhere and went everywhere," said Lou Ann Barton the day that Stevie Ray Vaughan died in a tragic helicopter accident. In the nearly 30 years that have passed since his death, several books and films have been produced about Stevie's life, but none of them had the cooperation of the person who knew him best, older brother Jimmie, until now.Using never-before-seen photos and home movies as well as the only on-camera interviews of Eric Clapton and Jimmie Vaughan who were there the night he died, From Nowhere provides new revelations about one of the greatest guitarists of all time, Stevie Ray, and the person he called his favorite guitarist, brother Jimmie. Unlike rock musicians on the coasts (New York, Los Angeles) Stevie and Jimmie played the Texas bar circuit instead of The Troubadour, The Roxy, or The Electric Circus. They also began playing professionally at 13, and were too young to be admitted to the clubs they played, so their parents had to take them to their gigs. In the era before the Internet, cell phones or Facebook, they had to build an audience on reputation alone, and because they were in a "fly over" state, they did not have the eyes and ears of the A&R men in LA or New York. While the 70s were popular for "album rock" both Stevie Ray Vaughan and Jimmie stuck to playing the Texas blues, and remained committed to that style winning Grammy awards and accolades from the top rock guitarists of that era. Featuring interviews with Billy Gibbons, Jackson Browne and Nile Rodgers, as well as their early band mates from Oak Cliff, Texas, From Nowhere traces the rise of two young men's climb from a small house in Oak Cliff to the top of the rock heap.