Stevie Ray Vaughan - Texas Flood - 180g 2LP

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Stevie Ray Vaughan - Texas Flood - 180g 2LP
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AAA 100% Analogue This LP was Remastered using Pure Analogue Components Only from the Master Tapes through to the Cutting Head

Pure Pleasure / Epic  PPAN 38734 -  180 Gram Virgin Vinyl - AAA 100% Analogue

Audiophile Mastering by Ray Staff  at Air Mastering London

Pressed at Pallas in Germany - Limted Edition - Epic 38734

"…This is a watershed album for the Bluesy rock style this now deceased master established. Highest recommendation." – Richard S. Foster, Hi-Fi+, 

Featured in Michael Fremer's Heavy Rotation in the June 2007 Issue of Stereophile! 

It is a rare occurrence when a single musician impacts musical culture. However, when Stevie Ray Vaughn burst onto the scene in the 1980s, it was electrifying. Comparisons to Jimi Hendrix abounded, due to the flashy play of this Texas blues man. His band, Double Trouble, was a classic power trio (guitar, bass and drum), like Hendrix, Cream and Mountain. As those bands galvanized blues into rock structures, Double Trouble elevated blues to mainstream popularity.

Stevie Ray Vaughan's 1983 debut album, Texas Flood, was a phenomenal success, climbing into the Top 40 and spending over half a year on the charts, which was practically unheard of for a blues recording. The record plays like a dynamite club show, filled with crowd-pleasing originals and covers, all performed with unbridled enthusiasm. Certified Gold on August 13, 1990; certified Platinum on January 22, 1992.

The effects of the debut LP "Texas Flood" by Stevie Ray Vaughan at the time of publication in 1983 can not be overestimated. At this time the Blues had nowhere near the importance it had in the 60's - "Texas Flood" changed the basic, entered the top 40 of the charts and stayed there for more than half a year, unheard of for a blues LP . Vaughan became a genuine star and so lit the revival of the blues. The effects were nothing less than monumental, yet Vaughan was criticized despite his amazing skills on the guitar, for his little distinct voice. Instead, the critics, the effects were only too obvious, whether Albert King's pinched yet powerful unilateral or Larry Davis' emotive vocals. There is a grain of truth in these allegations, but it was just what "Texas Flood" helped to its meaning. Vaughn made ​​no attempt to hide his influences, he celebrated them and so punmpte fresh blood into a familiar genre. 
 
As Vaughan and his band Double Trouble recordings of this album in 1982 for a period of three days away, the single tracks were already on countless live performances been played, he knew exactly how he had to treat his material in order to achieve maximum impact. The album is structured like a live performance, it starts with the two best self-written song, "Love Struck Baby" and "Pride and Joy", then leads on to two cover versions, the simmering on low heat for the title track and an exciting interpretation of Howlin ' Wolf's "Tell Me", and then to come up with "Dirty Pool" and "I'm Crying" to climax. For the grand finale Vaughan continues with "Lenny" his wife still a lyrical jazzy monument. 
, it is clear that Vaughan's actual merit - was finding something personal and gefühlsbetontem - by adopting various influences of his idols. Sometimes the bonds were obvious, sometimes subtle, the fusion of memories of the past with the excitement and spirit of the present are the style of Stevie Ray Vaughan.
 
Recording: November 1982 in Downtown Studios, Los Angeles, and Riverside Sound, Austin (Texas) by Richard Mullen / September 1983 at The Palace, Hollywood, California 
Production: Stevie Ray Vaughan, Richard Mullen & Double Trouble

 

Musicians:
Stevie Ray Vaughan - guitar, vocals
Tommy Shannon - bass
Chris "Whipper" Layton - drums

LP 1
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 Cryin’
10. Lenny


LP 2
1. SRV Speaks
2. Tin Pan Alley
3. Testify (live)
4. Mary Had A Little Lamb (live)
5. Wham! (live)

Stevie Ray Vaughan - Texas Flood - 180g 2LP

 
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