`` slim harpo ... bob 'bear ' hite ... stevie ray vaughan ... '' `` twenty-three , '' sissy told her , and on stage alan freed went on screaming names at the almost empty town common as the stars came out , first a hundred stars , then a thousand , then too many to count , stars that had come out of the blue and now glittered everywhere in the black ; he tolled the names of the drug o.d .