t that Lenora would have a hard time keeping up with Stevie, but it really ended up being the other way around. Lenora and Stevie wed at the Rome Inn Chapel, where they were scheduled for a gig later that evening (Patoski 127-130)."Double Trouble" made a quick rise to success upon releasing their first album starting in 1983 with Texas Flood, Couldn’t Stand The Weather in 1984, Soul To Soul in 1985, and Live Alive in 1986 As the money rolled in, Stevie’s drug problem escalated. While on a European tour in 1986. After Live Alive was released, upon finishing a gig in Germany, Stevie suddenly collapsed. Layton and Shannon rushed Stevie to a hospital. When the diagnoses came back, the doctor said that Stevie had the stomach of a sixty-year-old man, due to alcohol eating holes into his stomach. Stevie’s problems didn’t stop there, he had been sniffing cocaine and downing LSD tabs like they were peanuts, but he wasn’t the only one. Tommy Shannon who had tried many times before to stop, was also in bad shape. As soon as they got back to the United States, they checked themselves into an Atlanta detox center (Patoski 130-222). In less then a month, they were out and Stevie was ready to get back to his life and more importantly, his music. While in Europe, in 1986 Stevie met a seventeen-year-old model from London named Janna Lapidus. Shortly after they meet, Stevie they fell in love with Janna. In 1988 Stevie and Lenora got a divorce after a long separation (Patoski 212-231).In 1989, In Step was released, which would come to be known as Stevie’s and "Double Trouble’s" last recorded album together. In 1990, at Alpine Valley Music Theater near East Troy, Wisconsin, guitarist Stevie Ray Vaughan was onstage with fellow bluesmen Eric Clapton, Buddy Guy, Robert Cray and Vaughan's older brother, Jimmie (Patoski 257). Shortly afterward, at 12:15 A.M. on Aug. 27, Vaughan, 35, had planned to make the t...
