Following the Marvin Gaye One-Step release, which introduced MoFi's new vinyl formula, is Vaughan's oft-reissued 1983 breakthrough LP, the album that introduced the world to an incendiary blues guitarist who managed to please both the purists and the mainstream. Indeed, so powerful was Texas Flood that its glorious mix of gutsy roadhouse blues and exquisite instrumentals, the latter recalling Hendrix's more pensive moments, is credited with reviving the then-moribund blues genre. This edition contains the original track listing spread over four sides, and the biggest shock is not the magnificence of the now-familiar music so much as how phenomenal is the sound of an album recorded in only three days Ken Kessler HIFI new Album of the month