Customer Reviews
This popped into my Amazon 'Recommendations' box - By: Moz, 27 Mar 2007 
I'd never bought anything before purely 'cause Amazon recommended it. I'd always heard some of the stuff by the artist or seen them on TV somewhere. I was oblivious to SRV though so I popped it on my 'Wish List' while I mulled over the pros & cons. All of the reviews were very positive drawing comparisons to Hendrix. I was curious & attracted to this man described as a seminal blues guitar hero so I summoned up the courage & added it to an order to make up my £15 for free delivery.
What a treat! Deep southern blues done with sincerity & affection. Innovative & fluid guitar work, beautiful rich tones, solid riffs. It's very much a one man band, bass & drums add squat, but what a man. The bonus live tracks are great too and, once you'rein the groove, it all sounds wonderful. Sure, the first coupla tracks sounded like just another blues album, but this has a depth & richness that make it just that bit special & highly listenable.
Genius - By: Brian O'Hanrahanrahan, 22 Jan 2007 
What else is there to say? Stevie Ray Vaughan is the greatest blues guitarist ever - no-one else even compares. I still can't decide which album of his os my favourite, but it might well be this one.
Having labouredin obscurity (well, he was known is Texas, but nowhere else) for several years, Stevie Ray Vaughan caught the eye of David Bowie, & SRV was the lead guitarist for his 1982 album, 'Let's Dance' (don't get it - it's awful.) The funds from his session work with the British pop legend, coupled with his signing by A&R man John Hammond, allowed Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble (his band) to release an album. And a new guitar hero was born.
1. Love Struck Baby - 9/10 - Very good opener
2. Pride And Joy - 10/10 - Brilliant song with a solo to match
3. Texas Flood - 10/10 - Best song on here. Re-done cover of an old forgeotten song. And what a solo
4. Tell Me - 9/10 - As basic as SRV gets, cool riff
5. Testify - 10/10 - Two amazing guitar solosin one of his best instrumentals
6. Rude Mood - 10/10 - Words simply fail me to describe this
7. Mary Had A Little Lamb - 10/10 - Shows Buddy Guy how it's done
8. Dirty Pool - 10/10 - How can you play that fast on one string? (deep breaths)
9. I'm Cryin' - 9/10 - Very good
10. Lenny - 10/10 - Beautiful instumental, reminds me slightly of 'Little Wing'.
The guitar playing on here is amazing. Albert King spoke of those who can play fast but have no soul (we all know the culprits) but SRV had soul. Not only that, he could outplay any of those shredders. The guitar solos on here are some of my favourites, & he just got better & better.
10/10.
Pure Magic! - By: A Creative Writing Student, 29 Oct 2006 Every guitarist searches for 'THE SOUND'. That one, special sound that holds so much emotion, so much feeling, so much soul. Stevie Ray Vaughan had thatin abundance. Every note he played, you can tell he meant it.
It is one of my biggest regrets that I never got the chance to see SRV live.
This is one of the truest blues albums I've ever heard. No matter what the song, subject matter, Stevie gives it his all. Albert King talked about people who play fast but without any soul. SRV HAD soul & it shows here.
SRVs introduction - By: P. McCauley, 28 Jun 2006 Stevie Ray's first album to hit the public was a scream. This album certainly one of his best & i still understand why he doesnt get more acclaim for his music ability. Every blues aritist has got his style byt stevie ray was on a league on his own. His music introduced other forms of music within itself & his songs are a pleasure to listen to.
A must albumin any music lovers collection.
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Stevie Ray and the reinvention of real Texas Blues... - By: , 24 Apr 2005 I can imagine what it must have been like for David Bowie, Jackson Browne, & the Montreux audience to see this virtuoso man play the fastest & most distinctive blues to be heard since Hendrix & Albert King.
I can imagine what it must have been like to have the radio onin the car on a grimy, muddy Monday morning, crammed with a thousand other cars into the clogged dual-carriage way, & hear, from nowhere, the wailing, jamming, flickering fingers of real Texas blues.
Stevie Ray Vaughan seemingly came from nowhere & exploded onto the blues scene with both his Montreux performance & this album, Texas Flood.
It begins with one of the best straight-blues rockers ever recorded, Love Struck Baby, & then on to the slower, Pride And Joy, before the realisation of a true blues magician - Texas Flood. And it doesn't let up from there. Continuously astounding with a million different licks & skids that never tire on the ears, Stevie Ray really does make blues history with his debut album.
Okay, so there are a few drawbacks - the songwriting is constricted to purely within-the-genre blues, & the number of originals on the album is perhaps too sparse. But blues was never about songwriting like Rock was, or like folk became, it was ALWAYS purely about making real feeling through music. No other form of music is as expressive as the blues - classical tires with continual sentiment, & the emotions of jazz stop when it becomes nonsensical & non-musical.
Blues is true music & true feeling, without sugar-coated, soft-focus tears about moping over having a crap life, & instead having real tears, real honesty & a real life, however crap.
And Stevie Ray gave us this like no one had before & like no one will after. But don't give up, you can always play the blues, & if it doesn't have a place today, all the more reason to sing it.
