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Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble - Texas Flood Epic Records Canadian Pressing, Ontario 1983 Record: VG+ VG ++ with several light scuffs Cover: VG+ top edge split all the way across, cornerwear, Tracklisting: Side One: Love Struck Baby Pride And Joy Texas Flood Tell Me Testify Side 2: Rude Mood Mary Had A Little Lamb Dirty Pool I'm Cryin' Lenny. Stevie Ray Vaughan is a musician of immeasurable talent and influence. When "Texas Flood" was released, there hadn't been anything like it heard since Hendrix. His tone on that old beat-up stratocaster was hot and brown. (A brief digression on the "brown" sound - Eddie Van Halen said it was the difference between hitting a block of wood with a hammer and hitting an anvil. If you don't get that - don't bother.) Texas Flood was a stunning collection of upbeat tunes and instrumentals mixed evenly with hair-raising slow blues. SRV wired that stratocaster with cables, (seriously, his guitar gauges were ridiculously thick), then he bent those strings into tortured notes that hit your eardrum the way a bite of your momma's apple pie hits your tongue or the way Catherine Zeta Jones hits the eye. The title tune is a slow blues jam with Stevie's great vocals mixed in with his guitar solos scorching sound waves at times he bends strings up TWO half-frets, choking the life out of that strat. The previously mentioned "Pride and Joy" is more uptempo and everything good about guitar-based Blues can be heard on that track. "Mary Had A Little Lamb" takes several children's nursery rhymes and puts them to the 3-chord miracle that was Double Trouble. If you're serious about the blues this album MUST be in your collection. Stevie Ray Vaughan - Texas Flood Stevie Ray Vaughan - Rude Mood '87 @ daytona beach live one of his best performances of this song/blues standard some would say
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