Texas Flood

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Product Details

Artist : Stevie Ray Vaughan
Binding : Audio CD
EAN : 5099749412927
Label : Legacy
Number of Discs : 1
Product Group : Music
Release Date : 1999-03-22

ASIN : B0000256IQ

Track Listings for

Disc-1
1. Lovestruck 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 Cryin'
10. Lenny

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Editorial Reviews

Amazon.co.uk Review

This legendary 1983 debut by the fallen torchbearer of the 1980s-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 album. 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-fuelled complexity that would infuse his later work. --Ted Drozdowski

Customer Reviews

This popped into my Amazon 'Recommendations' box (2007-03-27)

I'd never bought anything before purely 'cause Amazon recommended it. I'd always heard some of the stuff by the artist or seen them on TV somewhere. I was oblivious to SRV though so I popped it on my 'Wish List' while I mulled over the pros and cons. All of the reviews were very positive drawing comparisons to Hendrix. I was curious and attracted to this man described as a seminal blues guitar hero so I summoned up the courage and added it to an order to make up my £15 for free delivery.What a treat! Deep southern blues done with sincerity and affection. Innovative and fluid guitar work, beautiful rich tones, solid riffs. It's very much a one man band, bass and drums add squat, but what a man. The bonus live tracks are great too and, once you're in the groove, it all sounds wonderful. Sure, the first coupla tracks sounded like just another blues album, but this has a depth and richness that make it just that bit special and highly listenable.

Genius (2007-01-22)

What else is there to say? Stevie Ray Vaughan is the greatest blues guitarist ever - no-one else even compares. I still can't decide which album of his os my favourite, but it might well be this one. Having laboured in obscurity (well, he was known is Texas, but nowhere else) for several years, Stevie Ray Vaughan caught the eye of David Bowie, and SRV was the lead guitarist for his 1982 album, 'Let's Dance' (don't get it - it's awful.) The funds from his session work with the British pop legend, coupled with his signing by A&R man John Hammond, allowed Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble (his band) to release an album. And a new guitar hero was born.1. Love Struck Baby - 9/10 - Very good opener2. Pride And Joy - 10/10 - Brilliant song with a solo to match3. Texas Flood - 10/10 - Best song on here. Re-done cover of an old forgeotten song. And what a solo4. Tell Me - 9/10 - As basic as SRV gets, cool riff5. Testify - 10/10 - Two amazing guitar solos in one of his best instrumentals6. Rude Mood - 10/10 - Words simply fail me to describe this7. Mary Had A Little Lamb - 10/10 - Shows Buddy Guy how it's done8. Dirty Pool - 10/10 - How can you play that fast on one string? (deep breaths)9. I'm Cryin' - 9/10 - Very good 10. Lenny - 10/10 - Beautiful instumental, reminds me slightly of 'Little Wing'. The guitar playing on here is amazing. Albert King spoke of those who can play fast but have no soul (we all know the culprits) but SRV had soul. Not only that, he could outplay any of those shredders. The guitar solos on here are some of my favourites, and he just got better and better.10/10.

Pure Magic! (2006-10-29)

Every guitarist searches for 'THE SOUND'. That one, special sound that holds so much emotion, so much feeling, so much soul. Stevie Ray Vaughan had that in abundance. Every note he played, you can tell he meant it.It is one of my biggest regrets that I never got the chance to see SRV live.This is one of the truest blues albums I've ever heard. No matter what the song, subject matter, Stevie gives it his all. Albert King talked about people who play fast but without any soul. SRV HAD soul and it shows here.

SRVs introduction (2006-06-28)

Stevie Ray's first album to hit the public was a scream. This album certainly one of his best and i still understand why he doesnt get more acclaim for his music ability. Every blues aritist has got his style byt stevie ray was on a league on his own. His music introduced other forms of music within itself and his songs are a pleasure to listen to.A must album in any music lovers collection.The other reviews will tell a similar story.

Stevie Ray and the reinvention of real Texas Blues... (2005-04-24)

I can imagine what it must have been like for David Bowie, Jackson Browne, and the Montreux audience to see this virtuoso man play the fastest and most distinctive blues to be heard since Hendrix and Albert King.

I can imagine what it must have been like to have the radio on in the car on a grimy, muddy Monday morning, crammed with a thousand other cars into the clogged dual-carriage way, and hear, from nowhere, the wailing, jamming, flickering fingers of real Texas blues.

Stevie Ray Vaughan seemingly came from nowhere and exploded onto the blues scene with both his Montreux performance and this album, Texas Flood.

It begins with one of the best straight-blues rockers ever recorded, Love Struck Baby, and then on to the slower, Pride And Joy, before the realisation of a true blues magician - Texas Flood. And it doesn't let up from there. Continuously astounding with a million different licks and skids that never tire on the ears, Stevie Ray really does make blues history with his debut album.

Okay, so there are a few drawbacks - the songwriting is constricted to purely within-the-genre blues, and the number of originals on the album is perhaps too sparse. But blues was never about songwriting like Rock was, or like folk became, it was ALWAYS purely about making real feeling through music. No other form of music is as expressive as the blues - classical tires with continual sentiment, and the emotions of jazz stop when it becomes nonsensical and non-musical.

Blues is true music and true feeling, without sugar-coated, soft-focus tears about moping over having a crap life, and instead having real tears, real honesty and a real life, however crap.

And Stevie Ray gave us this like no one had before and like no one will after. But don't give up, you can always play the blues, and if it doesn't have a place today, all the more reason to sing it.

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