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Music CD - Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble: Texas Flood
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Music CD: Texas Flood
Artist: Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble
List Price: $11.98
Our Price: $4.86
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Manufacturer: Sony
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1. Love Struck Baby
2. Pride And Joy
3. Texas Flood
4. Tell Me
5. Testify
6. Rude Mood
7. Mary Had A Little Lamb
8. Dirty Pool
9. I'm Crying
10. Lenny
11. SRV Speaks - (previously unreleased)
12. Tin Pan Alley - (previously unreleased)
13. Testify - (previously unreleased, live)
14. Mary Had A Little Lamb - (previously unreleased, live)
15. Wham - (previously unreleased, live)
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0074646587027
Format: Extra tracks
Label: Sony
Manufacturer: Sony
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Sony
Release Date: 1999-03-23
Studio: Sony
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Summary: frekin awsome!!!
Comment: even though im 16 i think that S.R.V. was one of the best Guitarist to ever Play. HE IS A FRIGGIN LEGEND!!
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Summary: Texas Flood
Comment: There is more heart and soul on this album than you will ever hear on today's radio. SRV was an incredible guitar player.
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Summary: Great Debut!
Comment: This is really an awesome album from the late, great Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble. He plays so prolifically across different blues styles and makes them all sound great. Each time I come back to this, I'm stunned anew at SRV's abilities.
He's very missed.
Anyway, the album sounds great, so high marks for the remastering!
As for the bonus tracks, the gritty slow blues of "Tin Pan Alley," a favorite off of Stevie Ray Vaughan's later album In Step is a welcome variation, and the inclusion of three live tracks is certain to derive interest from SRV fans. "Testify" is played with great energy as is closer "Wham!" Bonus material is always nice, and it's some good stuff, here. Nothing better than the album itself, but still a nice addition.
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Summary: From Austin they came
Comment: Back in 1983, some friends & I headed to Asbury Park, N.J., to the Convention Center to see Marshall Crenshaw & Dave Edmunds on a double bill. Much to our disturbance, we discovered we would have to wait for Crenshaw to come on because there was an unannounced third act opening the show-a band from Texas called Double Trouble ( being unsophisticated Jersey boys, we had no idea what had been going on in Austin.) The group's set commenced with some in the crowd grumbling that they wanted to see Marshall Crenshaw straightaway. Forty minutes later, Stevie Ray Vaughan & his band had finished and the crowd, stirred to utter amazement, would not let them leave. That night I saw a man do things with a guitar with such lightning like bravado, I could not believe what I was seeing or hearing; Bruce Springsteen learned to make a guitar talk, but Stevie Ray had learned to give the six-string swagger. "Texas Flood" is a testament to what rock&blues swagger should sound like, and to what an enormous talent Stevie Ray Vaughan was and still is in the mind's of guitar afficianados everywhere.
From the opening twangs of "Love Struck Baby" & "Pride & Joy," on through to last bonus cut, a live version of "Wham!" you'll be captivated by the sound & the walk-the-walk style of perhaps the greatest guitar talent ever to come out of Texas. If everything is bigger in the Lonestar State, then that includes the sound of blistering blues guitar, which Stevie Ray proves without a doubt on "Texas Flood." This one is a keeper par excellence and one of my favorite guitar albums ever, right next to Jeff Beck's "Blow by Blow." No valid rock&blues cd collection can be without this record. It is certainly one of the greatest of its time & its kind.
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Summary: Super Cool Re-Issue of CLASSIC Debut Album, SRV Serves Up RETRO ROCKIN' BLUES GUITAR!
Comment: TEXAS FLOOD, the debut album from Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble is a classic album of electric guitar excellence, made even better by a caring, jam-packed CD re-issue release featuring 4 Bonus Tracks and an informative CD booklet.
This recording captures the true tone of a clean, vintage Fender Stratocaster, better than any other album that I know of! The overall sound and song structures are definitely Old School Blues/Rock guitar, but the fiery performance of the young Stevie Ray Vaughan takes it all to a new level of intensity and entertainment for any fans of great guitar playing!
In the early 1980s, while the rest of the guitarists in the country were trying to master the latest guitar playing style of Eddie Van Halen's manic fret tapping, Stevie Ray Vaughan was instead perfecting his retro blues stylings from the obscure past of the blues.
This album was recorded while they were still unsigned, after Jackson Browne was blown away by Stevie's playing at the Montreux Jazz Festival in 1982, Browne invited them to record for free at his California studio/warehouse. (BTW: this career turning point of a concert where Stevie got big breaks and notice from Jackson Browne and David Bowie is available on DVD, believe it or not, and it is GREAT). Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble - Live at Montreux 1982 & 1985
For the TEXAS FLOOD recordings on this album, Stevie and band thought they were just doing a good demo tape to shop around to record companies to get signed eventually, but the sessions ended up as their debut album, and a part of rock and roll history.
Songs like "Love Struck Baby," "Pride and Joy," "Mary Had a Little Lamb," "Lenny," -- aw, heck, most of this entire album would remain staples in Stevie's concert repertoire throughout his entire career!
Brilliant instrumentals are also included in "Testify," "Rude Mood," and "Lenny."
The Bonus Tracks feature "Wham!," a cover song of the first 45 rpm record that Stevie ever purchased as a kid, that would inspire him throughout his career, and "Tin Pan Alley" is an early recording from this TEXAS FLOOD recording, which would be re-recorded and put on their second album, the more modern sounding COULDN'T STAND THE WEATHER, which is nearly as good as TEXAS FLOOD on CD. Couldn't Stand the Weather
The nice CD booklet has more a few more photos than the original vinyl album release had, plus an informative write up about the band and this CD.
Like all of their four studio albums, they have all been given first rate re-release treatment by Epic/Legacy, and they are all worth owning and listening to, over and over.
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Editorial Reviews:
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This legendary 1983 debut by the fallen torchbearer of the '80s-'90s blues revival sounds even more dramatic in its remixed and expanded edition. Stevie Ray Vaughan's guitar and vocals are a bit brighter and more present on this 14-track CD. And the newly included bonus numbers (an incendiary studio version of the slow blues "Tin Pan Alley" that was left off the original release, and live takes of "Testify," "Mary Had a Little Lamb," and the instrumental "Wham!" from a 1983 Hollywood concert) illuminate the raw soul and passion that propelled his artistry even when he was under the spell of drug addiction. Texas Flood captures Vaughan as rockin' blues purist, paying tribute in his inspired six-string diction to his influences Larry Davis (who wrote the title track), Buddy Guy, Albert King, and Jimi Hendrix. His own contemplative "Lenny," a tribute to his wife at the time, also suggests a jazz-fueled complexity that would infuse his later work. --Ted Drozdowski
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