Aug

Billy Currington’s Bandmate Saved By His Guitar

Alex Stevens just may owe his life to his bass guitar. Billy Currington’s bass player was one of more than 75 people injured in the brutal storm that hit Canada’s biggest country music festival, the Big Valley Jamboree, on Aug. 1. Alex was leaving the stage with his bass slung over his shoulder when a huge gust of wind caused the stage to collapse.

“It was like being blindsided by a bus,” Alex tells the Edmonton Journal. “I was halfway down the stairs off the back of the stage, when a whole section of seating and scaffolding slammed into me from my right side. I was pinned underneath it and unable to move.”