Texas Flood

Occupation

• Stevie Ray Vaughan: Vocals, Guitar
• Chris Layton: Drums
• Tommy Shannon: Bass

Texas Flood Stevie Ray Vaughan 's debut album from 1983., The then 29 -year-old Vaughan was so virtually overnight into one of the most famous and critically acclaimed blues and rock guitarists. The album was recorded in just three days in Jackson Browne's private studio.

Title list

Bonus tracks

On some later CD releases, the following bonus tracks were added:

Prehistory

In the early 1970s attracted Stevie Ray Vaughan and his brother Jimmie Vaughan, who already had acquired as a guitarist for the Fabulous Thunderbirds local celebrity, within the State of Texas from Dallas to Austin, where they hoped to greater chances of success. But it took until 1982 to Stevie Ray Vaughan and his band Double Trouble were given the chance to be the first band without a record deal at the famous Montreux Jazz Festival to play. While they reaped from the audience, which had set on a quiet night with gentle music, for their loud Texas Blues only boos, but was also present, David Bowie was inspired by Vaughan's talent and hired him for his next album Let's Dance. Jackson Browne, who had also seen the Montreux- idea, offered the band to use his private studio for three days free of charge.

Success

The songs recorded ten were sent to music producer John Hammond, who had already promoted musicians such as Bob Dylan, Aretha Franklin and George Benson. This organized for the band signed a contract with Epic Records. The recordings have been re- mixed and released as an album. On June 3, 1983 Texas Flood peaked at number 38 on the Billboard 200 charts and sold more than 500,000 copies.

The album has been available since March 2008 to the title Tin Pan Alley and Wham as download content for the video game Rock Band 2.

The most important songs

Pride and Joy is probably the most famous original composition Stevie Ray Vaughan. It is a typical Texas Blues Shuffle in E flat major, played in E major with the typical Stevie Ray Vaughan lower by a semitone tuning ( It -As- In -Ges -B - flat) his guitar.

Texas Flood written, attributed to circa 1955 by Larry Davis, also the arranger and trumpeter Joe Scott, was made famous by Stevie Ray Vaughan and remained until his death an integral part of his live performances. It stands in a 12/8-Takt and sounds due to the guitar tuning again a semitone lower in G flat major instead of G major as Stevie Ray Vaughan played it.

Lenny is the last track of the original recording. Vaughan's wife, Lenora had repainted 1980, a 1965 Fender Stratocaster bought him with rosewood fingerboard, the Vaughan liked it so much that he called them on the basis of his wife's name "Lenny". That same night he shall have According to Lenora wrote the song Lenny. This he took, as well as the play Riviera Paradise from his album In Step, on the guitar, " Lenny " on (whose neck he had, however, now exchanged for one with a maple fretboard). The guitar manufacturer Fender introduced in 2007, manufactures a limited number of copies of "Lenny". The original guitar was made in 2004 sold for 629,500 U.S. dollars.