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Texas Flood
Reissued, Import, Extra Tracks, Remastered
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MP3 Music, June 13, 1983
"Please retry" | $8.99 | — |
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Audio CD, March 24, 2014
"Please retry" | $1.74 | $4.12 |
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Vinyl, Import, February 17, 2017
"Please retry" | $25.37 | $39.20 |
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Track Listings
| 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 |
| 11 | SRV Speaks |
| 12 | Tin Pan Alley (AKA Roughest Place in Town) |
| 13 | Testify |
| 14 | Mary Had a Little Lamb |
| 15 | Wham! |
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Product Description
Remastered and expanded reissue of this 1983 album from the Blues guitarist including bonus tracks.
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This legendary 1983 debut by the fallen torchbearer of the '80s-'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 CD. And the newly included bonus numbers (an incendiary studio version of the slow blues "Tin Pan Alley" that was left off the original release, and live takes of "Testify," "Mary Had a Little Lamb," and the instrumental "Wham!" from a 1983 Hollywood concert) illuminate the raw soul and passion that propelled his artistry even when he was under the spell of drug addiction. 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-fueled complexity that would infuse his later work. --Ted Drozdowski
Product details
- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
- Language : English
- Product Dimensions : 5.5 x 4.9 x 0.4 inches; 3.2 Ounces
- Manufacturer : Sony Legacy
- Item model number : 074646587027
- Original Release Date : 2009
- Run time : 59 minutes
- Date First Available : December 7, 2006
- Label : Sony Legacy
- ASIN : B00000ICN5
- Number of discs : 1
- Best Sellers Rank: #188,359 in CDs & Vinyl (See Top 100 in CDs & Vinyl)
- #213 in Guitar Gods
- #337 in Texas Blues
- #1,166 in Modern Blues (CDs & Vinyl)
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That's exactly what it was like. I used to say it was "like a religion," some 25 years ago, for me to show up an hour early at Fitzgerald's in Houston, to be first in line when the club opened and get a table right in front of SRV's microphone. What I remember most vividly is his hands on his guitar. He didn't schmooze his audience; he didn't have much patter. Stevie Ray expressed himself through his fingers, and he poured out his soul.
I think he knew very well that one night, my hand was regularly moving in my purse because I was starting and stopping a tape recorder. According to SRV, he was then stuck in a recording contract with someone who would release neither an album nor him from the contract. I listened to that bootleg frequently between his live appearances. (Don't ask: I no longer have it and wouldn't copy it if I did.)
Thus I can "Testify" that the cuts on this first album faithfully replicate the sound of his performance of these songs. Nothing is added - there are only bassist Tommy Shannon and drummer Chris Layton ably anchoring SRV's guitar - and nothing is taken away. If the trio required more than one recording for each of these tracks, it was only to choose among SRV's brilliant improvisations.
The liner notes from the follow-up album, COULDN'T STAND THE WEATHER, emphasize SRV's macho appearance as this Texan blasted away a New York City audience. "Macho" is not what SRV was like. He had a slight build. He was soft-spoken. The last cut on the original issue of TEXAS FLOOD, a tribute to SRV's wife, is exquisitely tender, the opposite of macho - in front of God and everyone! SRV played not to impose himself on his listeners but to persuade. Which is ultimately much more powerful.
I learned only from the liner notes for the TEXAS FLOOD reissue that SRV is credited with igniting the 1980s blues revival. That's what a prophet is for, isn't it?
With the possible exception of an original LP pressing on Epic, this is by far the best this album has ever sounded. (My dumb ass, I sold most of my vinyl in the early 90's -- including an MFSL "Abbey Road"!) As an example, on "Texas Flood," instead of just a muddy, murky din in the background, Tommy Shannon's bass has timbre, dynamics, and pace. SRV's guitar in the bridge ***SOARS*** -- every note is there and now you can hear the impact of the pick on the string and the individual strings themselves, not to mention the microtonal differences from his judicious use of bending notes. On "Tell Me," the solo is now composed of distinctive notes, not just a big wall of stinging treble.
I still think that at this price point, one should get slightly nicer packaging, but that's nitpicking. Here's hoping MOFI will get into the business of putting out "Super Deluxe" versions of albums of this stature. I.E. there's no reason why SRV's catalogue shouldn't get the same treatment as exemplified by the recent and super deluxe indeed Super Deluxe version of The Who's "Live at Leeds," of which I was fortunate to get a copy before they were all snapped up.
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Muy satisfecho!
Reviewed in Spain on February 14, 2022
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