Customer Reviews
SRV Texas Flood 
2008-08-16
Stevie Ray sings and plays from the heart. Great first cd for anyone. Imagine what kind of jams he would be pulling down today!
The Greatest Blues-Rock Guitarist 2008-07-09
Stevie Ray Vaughan was, without a doubt, the greatest Blues-Rock guitarist of all-time. However, I'd like to stress the term, "Blues Rock", and not "Blues". He was not a Bluesman. Being a Bluesman requires more than just playing Blues guitar licks very fast and accurately. On this album, his singing is solid, the music makes the listener move his/her feet, the guitar playing is frantic and a great deal of fun, and Vaughan simply comes across as having an original image and sound. The album is available for a very cheap price on Amazon.com, so you should definitely pick it up. This is Vaughan's best album. Although I detest him being considered "the best Bluesman", he was still a great musician and I would have loved to have seen him live in concert. His pre-mature death will remain one of the greatest tragedies in music history. "Pride And Joy", "Texas Flood" and "Rude Mood" are all excellent. Fenton Robinson also performed "Texas Flood" on his "Somebody Loan Me A Dime" album, and it sounds a great deal different than it does on this album.
As Dick Betts said, "thank GOD for Stevie Ray Vaughn" 2008-05-18
I remember reading about this smoking guitar player out of Austin Texas in early 1983. Couple months later I was in the record store and I looking for a new guitar album to buy. I look down and see this guy with a strat and a gun slinger look. Then I remembered what I read. So of course I bought it. Put it in my cassette player in my car and was totally blown away. That tone, those smoking licks and solo's. That was really the last time I was really blown out of the water by a guitarist. I mean, who can live up to this guy. He was the whole package. Great songs, good vocals, great rhythm section. I think SRV is the best blues rock guitarist to walk on this planet. I miss him....
frekin awsome!!! 2008-05-07
even though im 16 i think that S.R.V. was one of the best Guitarist to ever Play. HE IS A FRIGGIN LEGEND!!
Texas Flood 2008-02-27
There is more heart and soul on this album than you will ever hear on today's radio. SRV was an incredible guitar player.
Great Debut! 2008-02-07
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
From Austin they came 2008-01-30
Back in 1983, some friends & I headed to Asbury Park, N.J., to the Convention Center to see Marshall Crenshaw & Dave Edmunds on a double bill. Much to our disturbance, we discovered we would have to wait for Crenshaw to come on because there was an unannounced third act opening the show-a band from Texas called Double Trouble ( being unsophisticated Jersey boys, we had no idea what had been going on in Austin.) The group's set commenced with some in the crowd grumbling that they wanted to see Marshall Crenshaw straightaway. Forty minutes later, Stevie Ray Vaughan & his band had finished and the crowd, stirred to utter amazement, would not let them leave. That night I saw a man do things with a guitar with such lightning like bravado, I could not believe what I was seeing or hearing; Bruce Springsteen learned to make a guitar talk, but Stevie Ray had learned to give the six-string swagger. "Texas Flood" is a testament to what rock&blues swagger should sound like, and to what an enormous talent Stevie Ray Vaughan was and still is in the mind's of guitar afficianados everywhere.
From the opening twangs of "Love Struck Baby" & "Pride & Joy," on through to last bonus cut, a live version of "Wham!" you'll be captivated by the sound & the walk-the-walk style of perhaps the greatest guitar talent ever to come out of Texas. If everything is bigger in the Lonestar State, then that includes the sound of blistering blues guitar, which Stevie Ray proves without a doubt on "Texas Flood." This one is a keeper par excellence and one of my favorite guitar albums ever, right next to Jeff Beck's "Blow by Blow." No valid rock&blues cd collection can be without this record. It is certainly one of the greatest of its time & its kind.
Super Cool Re-Issue of CLASSIC Debut Album, SRV Serves Up RETRO ROCKIN' BLUES GUITAR! 2008-01-04
TEXAS FLOOD, the debut album from Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble is a classic album of electric guitar excellence, made even better by a caring, jam-packed CD re-issue release featuring 4 Bonus Tracks and an informative CD booklet.
This recording captures the true tone of a clean, vintage Fender Stratocaster, better than any other album that I know of! The overall sound and song structures are definitely Old School Blues/Rock guitar, but the fiery performance of the young Stevie Ray Vaughan takes it all to a new level of intensity and entertainment for any fans of great guitar playing!
In the early 1980s, while the rest of the guitarists in the country were trying to master the latest guitar playing style of Eddie Van Halen's manic fret tapping, Stevie Ray Vaughan was instead perfecting his retro blues stylings from the obscure past of the blues.
This album was recorded while they were still unsigned, after Jackson Browne was blown away by Stevie's playing at the Montreux Jazz Festival in 1982, Browne invited them to record for free at his California studio/warehouse. (BTW: this career turning point of a concert where Stevie got big breaks and notice from Jackson Browne and David Bowie is available on DVD, believe it or not, and it is GREAT). Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble - Live at Montreux 1982 & 1985
For the TEXAS FLOOD recordings on this album, Stevie and band thought they were just doing a good demo tape to shop around to record companies to get signed eventually, but the sessions ended up as their debut album, and a part of rock and roll history.
Songs like "Love Struck Baby," "Pride and Joy," "Mary Had a Little Lamb," "Lenny," -- aw, heck, most of this entire album would remain staples in Stevie's concert repertoire throughout his entire career!
Brilliant instrumentals are also included in "Testify," "Rude Mood," and "Lenny."
The Bonus Tracks feature "Wham!," a cover song of the first 45 rpm record that Stevie ever purchased as a kid, that would inspire him throughout his career, and "Tin Pan Alley" is an early recording from this TEXAS FLOOD recording, which would be re-recorded and put on their second album, the more modern sounding COULDN'T STAND THE WEATHER, which is nearly as good as TEXAS FLOOD on CD. Couldn't Stand the Weather
The nice CD booklet has more a few more photos than the original vinyl album release had, plus an informative write up about the band and this CD.
Like all of their four studio albums, they have all been given first rate re-release treatment by Epic/Legacy, and they are all worth owning and listening to, over and over.
QUINTESSENTIAL STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN ! (the debut that rocked the blues world) 2007-12-17
Stevie Ray Vaughan's debut, Texas Flood (1983), was so extraordinary, it took everybody in the blues world by surprise when it was released, and it was also nominated for two Grammy Awards. Now, of course, it's no secret how unbelievably and dramatically great Stevie was when playing the guitar and singing the blues. Pride And Joy is the rocking blues that is SRV's most famous song, and it's a pure joy to listen to.
Well you've heard about love givin' sight to the blind
My baby's lovin' cause the sun to shine
She's my sweet little thing, she's my pride and joy
Texas Flood is an insanely good electric guitar blues, and Dirty Pool is a minor-key blues lament of love gone bad.
They say that life...Life is a game of give and take
I'm telling you one thing right now little baby
I won't be the one to pay for your mistake
Love Struck Baby is a Stevie Ray Vaughan penned classic, and there's a funky cool version of Mary Had A Little Lamb. The uptempo Rude Mood (nominated for a Grammy Award) and the slow, Hendrix-influenced Lenny are instrumental gems. Texas Flood is a solid album of spirited blues music from one of the greatest and most expressive guitarists of our time.
good project 2007-05-15
Steve Ray Vaughan one of the best blues guitarrist in the world, in this album ,Texas Flood , with three live performances as bonus tracks with Chris Layton on drums, Testify live version is unreal great guitar play very well played,there is not question about it he was good.
I strongly recomend this album for anyone .
