Description: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 sThis 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... (more)(less)
Manufacturer : Legacy Release date : 22 March 1999 Number of discs : 1 EAN: 5099749412927
"Stevie Ray Vaughan EPIC REMASTERS
Year - 1998
Company - Epic/Legacy
Here's one I have held in high regard enough though it's slightly louder than the original pressings. I have bought 3 of the 4 reissues of SRV's albums, and I can say they are totally worth it. Each one has a good liner note essay, a few pics, and then a segment of "SRV Speaks" which is 30 seconds edited from an old interview on each CD, before the loads of bonus tracks.
The bonus material is where the heart is with these re"
""You said you'd call the shots darlin'
All your friends thought that was so cool
Yeah, but when you shot at the eight ball baby,
I knew you were playin' dirty pool."
Going into the 80's, Blues was starting to die out and had already become known as a thing of the past. The original greats were now legends, and it seemed that time passed by too quick on a genre you can't modernize.
When Stevie Ray debuted with Texas Flood, it was the coming of a Blues Messiah. This album proved that Blues was s"
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