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Stevie Ray Vaughan - Texas Flood - SACD

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Mobile Fidelity - UDSACD 2074 - SACD Hybrid Stereo

Half Speed Mastered by Shawn R. Britton from the Original Master Tape at MFSL

Numbered Limited Edition - Plays On All CD Players

Mastered on the Mobile Fidelity GAIN 2™ Mastering Technology for Ultradisc Hybrid SACD

A debut seemingly sent from the musical heavens, Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble’sTexas Flood announces the arrival of a truly special talent—namely, the last major blues guitarist to emerge with a voice all his own, an immediately distinctive style, and a soulfulness that you feel inside the depths of your existence. Not for nothing was Vaughan frequently mentioned in the same breath as his closest musical cousin, Jimi Hendrix.

This staggering 1983 album has been remastered and reconfigured multiple times, yielding sporadic results. We think we finally got it right: Mastered from the original master tapes, this hands-down definitive digital version brings Vaughan and Co. into your listening room and places them at your feet. Vaughan’s trademark Fender Stratocaster has never sounded more real, electric, or authentic on record.

Born of hot, sweaty bars and years of woodshedding in front of demanding crowds, Texas Floodis rooted in Austin’s rich musical heritage as well as Vaughan’s tenure in Paul Ray & the Cobras, recipient of the “Best Band” award in the city’s first-ever (and now famous) music poll. After getting his feet underneath him, Vaughan formed Triple Threat, the ensemble that morphed into Double Trouble—the very group he’d perform with for the remainder of his career. Having dropped from a quintet to a trio, extra demands were placed on Vaughan’s role and playing—requirements he was more than comfortable to accommodate.

The proof is scattered throughout Texas Flood, which single-handedly resuscitated a genre that had long been dormant. Having spent more than half a year on the Billboard charts, the set pays homage to influences (Hendrix, Albert King, Larry Davis) and ripples with a freshness that joins contemporary Texas blues and muscular rock at the hip. Vaughan’s playing is all about emotion and pace, whether he’s lighting it up on the jumpy “Love Struck Baby” or bursting with enthusiasm on the sparks-shooting “Pride and Joy.”

The trio is equally effective on slow numbers, with covers of Howlin’ Wolf’s “Tell Me” and Davis’ “Texas Flood” weeping with longing. And as if to insure his name is etched in history, Vaughan takes a jazzy stroll with the instrumental tribute “Lenny,” covering all the bases in less than 40 minutes of time. Put this up with anything from Clapton, Butterfield, Mayall, Winter, and the like—Texas Flood is legion.

Our numbered limited-edition hybrid SACD brings the images Vaughan’s scrunched-up face, closed-eyes appearance, quick-draw fingers, and cowboy hat into pristine focus. More importantly, the searing tones from his guitar and every touch of his pick on the strings are captured with extreme delicacy, so you don’t miss a note. The soundstage is deep and wide, and the microdynamics simply pop. This is the closest you will ever come to hearing Vaughan perform in Antone’s, circa 1982.

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

Stevie Ray Vaughan Texas Flood Track Listing:

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

Mobile Fidelity believes that mastering systems should be neutral and transparent. The essential idea is to unveil all the detailed musical information on the original master recording without adding deterioration, coloration or other sonic artifacts.

It is worth noting that Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab stands out as one of few record labels that independently invests in research and development of audio technology. With proprietary innovations such as GAIN 2™, general music enthusiasts and audiophiles alike have reaped the benefit of a higher consumer audio standard without investing in costly new hardware. Mobile Fidelity is pleased to work with a variety of engineering legends and companies including Tim de Paravicini, Ed Meitner, Pass Labs, Theta Digital and Sony Electronics.

Our joint efforts to seek out the ultimate audio experience, has resulted in significant advances for the technology of music reproduction.

GAIN 2™ Mastering Technology for Ultradisc UHR™ Hybrid SACD and Ultradisc II™ 24kt Gold CDs

For over twenty years, Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab has continually searched for the ultimate audio experience. During this search MFSL engineers and associates created The GAIN™ System, a proprietary mastering technology which brought warmth and ambience to the compact disc format. A few years ago - with higher resolution formats on the horizon - the vision of GAIN 2™ began. As it stands today, GAIN 2™ is one of the greatest technical advancements in analogue and digital technology in the last ten years. It consists of a series of critical modifications and new components to Mobile Fidelity's proprietary mastering chain.

We feel that GAIN 2™ has come extremely close to meeting this goal. The key accomplishments of GAIN 2™ System are 1) the ability to extract all the musical information as possible through the Ultra High bandwidth analogue tape playback system with proprietary custom tape playback heads, reproducer electronics and 2) transparently capturing and storing that information with the Direct Stream Digital recording system.

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