Today is the 35th anniversary of the release of the debut album from Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble, Texas Flood. Vaughan had made a national name for himself the year before when then band played a blistering set at the Montreux Jazz Festival, which prompted David Bowie to hire Vaughan to play on six songs on Bowie's Let's Dance album (also released in 1983).
Texas Flood is a classic blues rock album, with a great combination of blues covers and originals, showcasing Vaughan's fantastic guitar-playing ability. The title track -- a cover of a Larry Davis song -- is my favorite song by the band, and songs like "Pride and Joy," "Mary Had a Little Lamb," "Love Struck Baby," and "Rude Mood" helped give the album airplay and several Grammy nominations. Texas Flood achieved double platinum status in the U.S., beginning a string of seven platinum albums in a row for the band. Of course, Vaughan met his untimely death at age 35, in an August 1990 helicopter accident while leaving a show at Alpine Valley in East Troy, Wisconsin.
I'm going with "Love Struck Baby" because it's the only song off of the album that had a video. So there you go.
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