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Morbid 9 curiosity »purs record sales DALLAS (AP) — Fans are flood- Texas record stores for copies of last album by Stevie Ray Vaug- , whose Grammy-winning blues hr riffs were silenced by a fatal icopter crash last month. "tores across the state reported sk sales of Family Style, a collabo- ion between Vaughan and ither Jimmie Vaughan, founder former member of The Fab- us Thunderbirds. tlany store managers said the al- tihad sold out by nightfall Tues- the first day of its release. It’s doing great,” Kerry Tartack, uyer for Antone’s Records in stin, said. “You’ve got to remem- this record is probably one of the st awaited releases, especially in neck of the woods.” aughan died Aug. 27 at the age 15 in a Wisconsin helicopter crash owing a show. The Dallas native Recently completed Family Style. attack says “morbid” curiosity is irring rapid sales. It stimulates and touches a lot of ferent nerves and emotions,” rtack says. “It’s hard to explain.” tone’s Records is affiliated with tone’s night club, where Vaughan his start after moving to Austin 972. This is where he basically made a part of his name,” Tartack said, oe Benito, owner of The Record t in San Antonio, said the 25 ts he had ordered didn’t last &• The interest is pretty high,” Be- said. “I’ve been getting a lot of son it.” ans want to keep the album as a ^ftnento, he said. “They’re upset, and some of them more so with themselves that they didn’t appreciate him while he was alive,” Benito said. Family Style was selling briskly at Houston’s Soundwaves, Manager Steven Shoemaker said. “It’s the best seller we’ve had so far this year in a day,” he said. “Peo ple were talking about it right after he died. That’s exactly why it’s sell ing so much.” Buyers were “real excited” about the album, Jill Schurr, a store clerk with Hastings Records & Tapes in Dallas, said. “We have had a lot of requests for it,” she said. “We got in a real big shipment and we expect to have a lot more sold.” Longtime Vaughan friend Ray Hennig of Austin said that although he had not listened to the album, “The word I get from people that have heard it is it’s great.” “I don’t think it would be much question about its success,” Hennig said. Vaughan died after appearing at a concert with Eric Clapton and blues guitarist Robert Cray. Vaug han and four others aboard the heli copter were killed when it crashed into a hill near East Troy, Wis. The blues musician and his band, Double Trouble, made their na tional debut in 1983 with the album Texas Flood. Vaughan and the band had a pla tinum album in Couldn’t Stand the Weather, released in 1984. That same year he won a Grammy for best traditional blues recording for the song “Texas Flood.” Companies say oil, gas market unpredictable HOUSTON (AP) — Some oil and gas companies are rushing to take advantage of higher oil prices to in crease drilling, but many say they’ve learned the hard way that it’s better to wait out the latest Persian Gulf cri sis. Two companies, Arkla Explora tion of Shreveport, La., and Hous ton-based Conoco, a DuPont subsid iary, announced this month they were boosting their domestic explo ration budgets. But independent producers and other oil and gas companies said in interviews Wednesday they don’t be lieve prices are going to stay high enough long enough for them to risk millions of dollars in new drilling. “A lack of trust in the pricing situ ation keeps us in place until we stop staring at each other across the Ku wait border,” said Julian Martin, ex ecutive vice president of the Texas Independent Producers and Royalty Owners Association in Austin. "it lack of trust in the pricing situation keeps us in place until we stop staring at each other across the Kuwait border.” — Julian Martin, executive vice-president, Oil prices have been rising since Iraq invaded Kuwait Aug. 2. Light sweet crude was trading up 27 cents at $37.80 per barrel for November delivery contracts on the New York Mercantile Exchange at midday Wednesday. Conoco announced earlier this month it was boosting its domestic exploration budget by $10 million, the first major energy company to respond to the recent price increases with more spending. Officials said the money would cover the cost of five new wells in the Gulf of Mexico. “With the literal dismantling of the exploration infrastructure in the U.S. during recent years, this coun try can’t expect to see a significant increase in exploratory activity right away,” said Max Pitcher, Conoco’s executive vice president for world wide exploration. “But while this single effort will not lessen U.S. dependence on over seas oil right away, it is a step in the right direction,” he said. Arkla, which drills primarily for natural gas, announced last week it has increased its capital budget for the remainder of 1990 from $55 mil lion to $70 million, a nearly 30 per cent jump over what it originally planned to spend this year. “We are doing something aggres sive,” company spokesman Louis Resweber said. “The industry has to step up to the plate and assist in find ing a domestic energy source when we’re being threatened by the Mid dle East.” ’91 '91 '91 ’91 '91 '91 '91 '91 '91 ’91 *91 ’91 '91 '91 SENIORS *91 ’91 mkmm mm ^ ■Hi mi *91 '91 '91 '91 ’91 '91 '91 Aggielancl *91 '91 *91 '91 nielli i a c k ft *91 '91 *91 ’91 *91 ’91 '91 ’91 Are being taken *91 '91 ’91 '91 through September 28 *91 '91 '91 '91 '91 AR Photography 707 Texas Ave Suite 120B *91 *91 '91 Monday-Friday 9-12; 1-5 '91 *91 *91 '91 '91 *91 '91 '91 '91 '91 '91 '91 '91 *91 MAKE YOUR CAREER MOVE NOW! 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