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Stevie Ray Vaughan
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Texas Flood
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| Date: |
1983 |
| Length: |
38:50 |
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CD |
| Genre: |
Blues |
| Category: |
blues |
| Ref#: |
blues-0027 |
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1. |
Love Struck Baby
2:23 |
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Pride And Joy
3:40 |
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Texas Flood
5:21 |
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Tell Me
2:49 |
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Testify
3:25 |
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Rude Mood
4:40 |
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Mary Had A Little Lamb
2:47 |
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Dirty Pool
5:02 |
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I'm Cryin'
3:42 |
10. |
Lenny
4:57 |
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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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Guitars & Vocals: Stevie Ray Vaughan
Bass: Tommy Shannon
Drums: Chris "Whipper" Layton
Produced by Stevie Ray Vaughan, Richard Mullen, and Double Trouble
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