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Couldn't Stand Weather

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This is the first SRV album I got and it got me hooked. "Scuttle Buttin'" starts it off and starts it off right. A very high energy, catchy tune that many have tried to imitate with limited success. "Couldn't Stand the Weather" is also good and has a pretty cool video for it, too. My favorite on this one is "Honey Bee." It's a classic-style blues number with great, upbeat writing and one of the best intros I've ever heard. The bonus tracks (five of them) are also a treat for SRV fans, as you get to hear stuff the band recorded, but never released. It also has another excerpt from an interview he did in 1989. This is a very strong follow-up and should be in any blues fan's collection.

P.S. Try to watch live recordings of the band, where you get to see the energy they played with. Check reruns of Austin City Limits, or buy one of the many videos released.

While not quite matching the greatness of Stevie Ray Vaughan's debut album, "Couldn't Stand The Weather" is a terrific album in its own right.

It opens with one of Vaughan's best instrumentals, the fiery "Scuttle Buttin'", and while some may find that it relys too heavily on covers and instrumentals, Vaughan and the band do very well by W.C. CLark's "Cold Shot" and Eddie 'Guitar Slim' Jones' classic "The Things That I Used To Do".
And Stevie Ray's take on Hendrix's "Voodoo Chile (Slight Return)" works very well also, even if it does resemble the original quite a lot, and the nine-minute "Tin Pan Alley" (which appeared as a shorter bonus cut on the remastered "Texas Flood" CD) is a great example of what Vaughan could do both as a vocalist and a guitarist - with no sustain, fuzztone or overdrive.

The bonus tracks include an early version of "Look At Little Sister" (later to turn up, with added boogie piano, on "Soul To Soul"), a fiery rendition of Freddy King's classic instrumental "Hide Away", and an equally great take on Hound Dog Taylor's best song, "Give Me Back My Wig".
This CD is highly recommended to all lovers of electric blues and blues-rock, and anyone with a liking for innovative, non-hysterical blues and rock guitar. Four-and-a-half big, shiny stars.

Couldn't Stand The Weather is Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble's follow-up to their excellent debut album Texas Flood. While a more diverse album than their debut, this album is a little inconsistent combining some of their best music ever with a few tracks being just decent.

The best tracks are absolutely killer. "Cold Shot", a mid-tempo shuffle, is an excellent track with Stevie Ray singing more subdued than usual. "Tin Pan Alley" is slow blues at its best with one of Stevie Ray's best vocal performances. His guitar playing is impressive throughout with Double Trouble being the perfect backing band playing with equal amounts fire and subtlety. "Stang's Swang" is the first of Vaughan's instrumental jazz tracks and one of the best songs on the album. The title track is one of their best tracks featuring a great riff and an excellent solo by Stevie Ray.

The rest of the album is decent, but not among their best work. Their version of "Voodoo Chile (Slight Return)" is good but doesn't add much to the original. "The Things (That) I Used To Do" is a slow blues they'd perform better on other albums. "Honey Bee" is a decent track but not among their best. The remastered version of the album contains killer versions of "Hideaway" and "Give Me Back My Wig", a dirtier version of "Look At Little Sister" sans the saxophone and keyboards and "Come On (Part III)" which varies little from the version on the Soul To Soul album. A very good album, definitely recommended to all blues fans but they'd record better albums with Texas Flood and In Step.

Stevie Ray Vaughan was a genius when he went into the studio he gave it his all 100%. If you have heard of Stevie Ray Vaughan and dont have this one then buy it because if you dont then your missing out. The new version of this CD is remastered with the best sound quality anyone could imagine. To me this was Stevie's turning point after TEXAS FLOOD. He had to give it more to prove his fame and he did with Couldn't Stand The Weather. My favorite songs on this CD are Couldn't Stand the Weather, Voodoo Chile(slight return), and Cold Shot. I also love the bonus tracks my favorite bonus track is Come On Pt3 it is rocking. Anyone will enjoy this CD rather you like Stevie or not you will love this CD 100%. Stevie gave it his all on this one know give it your all please buy this and Enjoy!

With all the SRV collections that are out there you may have only dabbled in those a little bit. If you are looking to check out the Electric Blues masters origional recordings though I suggest you start here. A little more refined then his debut Texas Flood, Couldn't Stand the Weather Has some of the most fantastic Electric Blues ever. The version of the late Jimi Hendrex Voodo Child is one that should not be missed by any SRV fan. As for other tunes, Cold Shot sounds like formula blues but with the SRV kick. Tin Pin Alley is another track that has been on a couple of the compilations but I think it works better when you kick back and play this CD in order the way it was meant to be heard. SRV lives on far after his death a true legend, This CD is a great place to become familair with his music or expand your growing Electric Blues CD collection.

The late great Stevie Ray Vaughan was, in my opinion, the greatest contemporary Blues man to ever live. He is the individual who turned me on to the blues.

I had this recording originally on cassette tape, and I wore it out! I am now on my second copy of the original 1984 CD and just got the re-issue just for the bonus tracks.

This is SRV at his best!

No this isn't the best or my favorite album of all time (Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon owns that position), this is my 3rd favorite. This is thee guitar album. Stevie Ray Vaughan is quite possibly the best guitar player of our time. The album is cholk-full of licks that are enough to make Steve Vai jealous. Scuttle Buttin's blues boogy, Couldn't Stand the Weather's blistering blues solo's, Cold Shots smooth, in-the-pocket feel, everything is great about this album. I honestly think Stevie could do no wrong. Because all of his albums are great. But I beleive this to be his best album. And, to state a radical opinion - I think Stevie's version of the legendary Jimi Hendrix's 'Voodoo Chile' is better than Jimi's original version. Stevie added so much more depth. But all in all, this is thee guitar album. Greatness in guitar is in abundance here, and there is no way you could stop Stevie. Rest In Peace Stevie Ray Vaughan.

This cd might be called perfect and maybe SRV at his prime. Voodoo Chile was so good that it would have put Hendrix to the test if he were alive to hear it. It was still a wonderful tribute to Hendrix and all of the people that Stevie covered. This is full of emotion and Voodoo Child and Tin Pan alley might put a chill up your spine if you listen to them in the dark and drop your guard as you must do when listening to Vaughan. This album shows that he is a great blues man and could have been just as rock and roll and cathardic as hendrix if he really wanted to. It also shows that he had and could have had more skill as a great jazz musician. Jazz, you could tell by listening to this album and maybe His cover of Kenny Burrell's Chitlins con carne on The Sky IS Crying, fits Stevie like a glove, almost as much as the blues. This has got upbeat, sly and smooth, exciting and painstaking, a little comedy, and a little bit of impossible to describe kind of music in it. The album is enough to blow your mind with Stevie's incredible energy even on the softest riff. Because even as his rapid chord changing comes down several notches and his voice gets quiet, he radiates pure electricity and a feeling like it could all blow up at anytime and explode your stereo. Buy this cd, and you will not regret it.

This has never been one of my favorite releases from Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble. It's not bad by any stretch, but it never hooked me that way I would have liked. For example, "Scuttle Buttin'" is a decent opener, and a high energy one at that, but I've never thought it to be quite up to some of their other instrumental pieces. And, while a bit of Jimi Hendrix is always appreciated, his treatment of "Voodoo Chile" doesn't really offer up anything new and, so, is a bit disappointing.

None of these songs are bad. They just don't grab my attention the way SRV did with his debut, Texas Flood, or would again on later albums. There are some very strong points, however, such as the soulful slow blues of "Tin Pan Alley," which really is a top notch track.

This seems like a negative review...but I really like this album! It's just that I have high standards when it comes to SRV, and this one doesn't quite measure up to his best work. But it's still good!

The album sounds great, so it gets high marks for the remaster.

The bonus tracks are always a nice addition, but they just don't make a big impact on this one. "Hide Away" is relatively mild and "Look at Little Sister" doesn't come across as much different than the version on Soul to Soul. Decent additions...but not much that's above and beyond.

This new expanded edition to Couldn't Stand the Weather includes 5 previously unreleased bonus tracks including a really good version of Come On (Pt.3), and Give Me Back My Wig. This 1984 follow up album to Texas Flood really proved how good Stevie Ray Vaughan really was. This is filled with more experimental blues songs including The Things (That) I Used To Do, and Honey Bee. Their is also a really good long studio version of Voodoo Chile(slight return) that is real amazing "truely great"!!!! Couldn't Stand the Weather would reach #31 on the Billboard pop charts and by the end of the year it was certified GOLD, and today it went double platinum. Vaughan's guitar playing is really a step up from his previously released album Texas Flood....This is one of Vaughan's best!!!