Bill Crawford and Joe Nick Patoski Stevie Ray Vaughan Biography Papers 1964- 1995 (Bulk: 1990-1993)

Southwestern Writers Collection, Special Collections, Alkek Library, Texas State University-San Marcos

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Crawford, Bill

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Bill Crawford and Joe Nick Patoski have been involved in writing and the music industry for most of their adult lives. From 1990 to 1993, they combined their literary talents and connections with the music industry insiders to write an unauthorized biography of blues guitar legend Stevie Ray Vaughan (1954-1990), who died in a helicopter accident near East Troy, Wisconsin. In spring 1993, Little, Brown and Co. published Crawford and Patoski's Stevie Ray Vaughan: Caught in the Crossfi...

Patoski, Joe Nick, 1951-

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Joe Nick Patoski was born in 1951 in Allentown, Pennsylvania. He moved with his family to West Fort Worth in 1953, at the age of two. He attended the University of Texas at El Paso, the University of Minnesota, and the University of Texas at Austin, where he began his writing career in 1972 as a columnist with the Daily Texan, the newspaper of the University of Texas at Austin. That same year he became a consultant in the music business and had soon earned a reputation as one of the most respect...