Episode 4 - Texas and the American Answer

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